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How Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our livesIllustrations by Doug Chayka. Source images © iStockHow Google, Amazon, and Facebook control our livesAdjustSharePopular histories present the Boston Tea Party as a rebellion against taxes. Yet what the colonists objected to more than anything was the idea of an all-powerful corporate middleman regulating commerce. They viewed the 1773 protest in Boston Harbor as a victory for liberty and a blow against the British East India Company’s trade monopoly.That corporation owed its dominance not to any proprietary advantage but to an exclusive...

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