Why not regulate social media like tobacco or alcohol? | Roger McNamee

Facebook, Google and others can foster addiction – and can be used to undermine democracyWe were warned. The venture capitalist and Netscape founder Marc Andreessen wrote a widely read essay in 2011 titled “Why Software Is Eating the World”. But we didn’t take Andreessen seriously; we thought it was only a metaphor. Now we face the challenge of extracting the world from the jaws of internet platform monopolies.I used to be a technology optimist. During a 35-year career in