#AntiTrust

Jamie Wilde ☕

jamiekaywilde

Facebook is currently being investigated bya) The FTCb) The House Judiciaryc) A group of 47 attorneys, led by NY's AGThe House Judiciary hearing is today at noon0/ Here’s a thread

Ioannis Lianos

IoannisLianos

Disappointing article in the Economist about antitrust.https://www.economist.com/schools-brief/2020/08/08/what-more-should-antitrust-be-doing It only reports the rather populist debate between "Chicago school" style libertarians,

Neil Chilson

neil_chilson

The Parler antitrust case against Amazon AWS is weaker than a wet noodle.Yes, I am going to beat this dead horse. THREAD. /1https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1348701229585752064 It's not surprising to see Parler attempting

Pinboard

Pinboard

Has anyone brought up the fact that the vice chair of the House Antitrust Subcommittee takes direct campaign contributions from Google, Microsoft and Amazon? Val Demings takes money from three

Daisuke Wakabayashi

daiwaka

A little background on my story about the Global Antitrust Institute and a lesson on the value of good editors and why journalism is expensive. I started getting interested in

Revolving Door Project

revolvingdoorDC

NEW: @ddayen & @ryangrim report that Renata Hesse, an Obama DOJ alum who advised Amazon on its Whole Foods acquisition and once worked with Ted Cruz to defend Google from

Thomas PHILIPPON

ThomasPHI2

(1/) A thread on the FTC lawsuit against Facebook, and the DOJ's lawsuit against Google.First, it is long overdue. Second, it's a good thing that it starts under a Republican

Elizabeth Warren

ewarren

For nearly two years now, I’ve been calling to #BreakUpBigTech—including Facebook. I’d said before that the purchases of WhatsApp and Instagram should never have been approved and need to be

Rebecca Kelly Slaughter

RKSlaughterFTC

I’ve spent the summer mostly offline w/ my newborn, but I’ve still been immersed in & moved by the momentous challenges our country has been confronting. So, as I come

michael

mrbrnn

excited to share the new report by @Cmmonwealth and @DemocracyCollab I’ve been working on w/ @ThomasMHanna @DantonsHead @peters_nils. some thoughts on the urgency of this intervention in the big tech

kristian stout

kristianstout

This is of a piece with Biden's EO on "modernizing regulatory review" that asks OMB to review regs in a way that "fully accounts for regulatory benefits that are difficult

Marshall Steinbaum 🔥

Econ_Marshall

Only partly through this New Yorker article on VCs but there’s already some pretty good stuff in here about their effect on competition. Infinity money flooding in to finance predation

Jason Kint

jason_kint

WSJ has now reported Facebook and Google’s sketchy price fixing deal terms. Alleges the “duopoly” allocated their surveillance advertising biz and this sure seems to back it up. https://www.wsj.com/articles/inside-the-google-facebook-

Lauren Jacobs

LaurenLJacobs

Today’s #MLK day converges with a lot.1) Pandemic2) Movement for Black lives3) Anti-Democratic coup attempt4) Unprecedented shuttering of small biz5) Climate disaster at our doorAll on the eve of

Morgan Ricks

MorganRicks1

We're either going to apply neutrality mandates and structural separations to dominant platforms or we're in big trouble.Neutrality mandates have been part of the common law of common carriers since

Sam Bowman

s8mb

This is a very odd case, if accurate. The Oculus Quest range is a great example of where low-cost (it may be below-cost, I don't know) selling makes perfect, pro-competitive

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