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The reality is that the tech industry, specifically the ad-tech industry, has had its Lehman moment and now the bloom is off the rose. Facebook and Google are increasingly going to be regulated and subject to more scrutiny going forward. That's just the reality of it.

You're not going through anything unique. There were plenty of bankers that felt that politicians, the press and the public were being unfair to them.




> There were plenty of bankers that felt that politicians, the press and the public were being unfair to them.

Weren't they? One rule that pretty much seems to be a law of the universe is that popular sentiment will be completely wrong on almost every particular point even when its conclusions are completely right.


That's what Jim Sterling keeps telling the game industry: regulate yourself (e.g. loot boxes), or you will get regulated sooner or later.




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