# The techlash against Amazon, Facebook and Google—and what they can do - A memo to big tech - Host: [economist.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/economist.com/) - Saved: January 21, 2018 (2018-01-21T17:33:28Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/392c1f0ae8fb/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/392c1f0ae8fb.json ## What Jamie wrote The Economist with a witty memo to Silicon Valley leaders on the threats ahead. > You are an industry that embraces acronyms, so let me explain the situation with a new one: “BAADD”. You are thought to be too big, anti-competitive, addictive and destructive to democracy. I think there are legs to this “big tech” thought. How material and motivated it gets is impossible to guess though. ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Appears in - [WT38: Weekly Thing for January 27, 2018](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/38/), Links 📌 ## Same host - [The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/cb70aad952c4/) (economist.com, August 18, 2017) - [What men and women think about their partners’ careers and help at home](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2858acb8decf/) (economist.com, October 6, 2017) - [How leading American newspapers got people to pay for news - Funnel vision](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/e2d4d46f8935/) (economist.com, November 2, 2017) - [Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s great scientists, has died - Physics](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/2eeb0c92de13/) (economist.com, March 14, 2018) - [Python has brought computer programming to a vast new audience - Programming languages](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/8424355ea08f/) (economist.com, July 21, 2018) ## Saved the same week - [Die With Me](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/de158f229cfa/) (diewithme.online, January 21, 2018) - [The Fall of Travis Kalanick Was a Lot Weirder and Darker Than You Thought - Bloomberg](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/a1a7d818e9b8/) (bloomberg.com, January 21, 2018) - [The iOS Economy, Updated | Asymco](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f6c0189a37e9/) (asymco.com, January 21, 2018) - [Satan Makes His Pitch to Amazon.com - McSweeney’s Internet Tendency](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/91b2bba9414f/) (mcsweeneys.net, January 21, 2018) - [Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Story in America - The Atlantic](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/405ab6e310a5/) (theatlantic.com, January 21, 2018) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21735026-which-antitrust-remedies-welcome-which-fight-techlash-against-amazon-facebook-and