Civics: “The Obama administration in particular was literally and cognitively captured by Big Tech”

Rana Foroohar:

Google practically set up cots in the White House, with a revolving door that makes the Goldman Sachs/Treasury shuffle look relatively minor by comparison. I think that’s one reason that the Obama administration missed the rise of data markets and how they’d reshape the economy, and allowed Silicon Valley to dictate policy on everything from antitrust to privacy to trade in ways that are now ensuring that the big get bigger.