Destruction of East India Company gives US Lawmakers a Blueprint for confronting Big Tech: Historian

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 The instruments to take apart entrenched corporate power “still exist,” but current governments are “lacking... the political nerve to use them,” said historian William Dalrymple.Brad ReedAug 28, 2026    A historian who has written four books about the British East India Company is warning that big technology companies in the US are amassing similar levels of unchecked power and will need to be reined in.In a New York Times op-ed ...