its, what are the concerns. the develop of a business model premised on taking stuff from us. in this case our information, our private data, without telling us. then selling it without our permission. then trying to get us addicted to their platforms so they can direct more ads to us and also extract more information from us. all of that without our consent. as a conservative, i believe in property rights. i think consumers actually, their information is their information. they ought to be able to control it. where dolls the regulation fall? you have a number of different things happening, fk. tc, doj, congress looking at it. how do you put it together, what s going to happen to the industry. you have the ftc and doj looking at antitrust. are these companies, we talk about the biggest companies, google, facebook, twitter. are they trying to stifle competition, are they stifling innovation. i worry they are. we need a doj, department of
justice, inquiry into that. i m glad that that is what the administration is doing. as a conservative, are you in favor of breaking them like a utility? if they violate the law. if they have violated the antitrust laws suppressing competition f they have gone out there and run competitors out of business in violation of the antitrust laws breaking up has got to be an option that s on the table. let me take the other side, these companies, are some of our most successful companies in the country. if you do that, if you find hah point and you break them up are you putting the u.s. at a disadvantage against somebody like china who will take over that big behemoth from the company. i m not sure the companies are our most successful or represently represent the best of america in the way they say they do. google, facebook, they say. that but think about it, bret, what have they given the country in the last 10 or 15 years? they have been willing to part never with the repressive chi
buck. they have advanced a left wing agenda whenever they. can. are they creating jobs in the middle of our economy, are they creating jobs in the middle of the country? no. mark zuckerberg was on capitol hill, asked about competition. here s what he said. the average american uses about 8 different apps to communicate and stay connected. there s a lot of competition that we feel every day. that s an important force that we feel in running the company. look at the market concentration facebook enjoys, it s enormous. and i think he is worried about competition, we know he s worried he tried to buy out companies that he thinks will compete. he tried to absorb them and roll them into facebook. that s an anti-competitive strategy. that s why president trump s justice department is looking at it. but i should say that congress needs to take action. whatever happens on antitrust congress needs to take action to protect people s data, protect kids online, and also to make