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...…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...WW…