#Antitrust

The HJC hearing livestream has begun. Note that at least Zelinsky will be testifying remotely. https://www.c-span.org/video/?473163-1/house-judiciary-hearing-justice-department-oversight We're not started yet at HJC. I wonder whether Na
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1. Yesterday was a big day in labor antitrust, featuring a major victory (certification of the class action brought by fighters against the UFC) and a more complicated development (the
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On #ElectionDay , here is a thread of some of my reporting on the UFC's influential role in Trump's re-election campaign:1. For The @Guardian, I wrote about how the UFC
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Jayapal: Does amazon ever access and use 3rd party seller data when making business decisions?Bezos: Thanks for representing us (she's Seattle's congresswoman). I can't answer yes or no. We have
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“We Built Google. This Is Not the Company We Want to Work For.” -@AlphabetWorkers #GoogleUnion #AlphabetUnionOn Nov. 1, 2018, at 11:10 am, some 20k Alphabet employees stopped working & walked
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Big House Judiciary Committee hearing on Justice Department oversight coming up in a few minutes. Not sure I have the stamina to live tweet this one, too, but I'll at
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For this #FoodJusticeFriday I am talking about the Secretary of Agriculture. We have been in our tiptoes waiting for the announcement of the @Transition46. So here is a more detailed
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government"; Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/24/
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Issue escalated by executive. Critical employee PC impossibly slow. Fairly decent laptop. I reimage it. Same issue.Request remote session. See Chrome at 1 frame per second.Uninstall Grammarly which does DLL
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How do you reduce health spending?We are launching a new project - ‘1% Steps for Health Care Reform’. We're working with leading health policy scholars and the goal is harness
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Good morning & happy #MonopolyMonday!This week, we'll be doing something a little different & talking about monopsonies. Specifically, we'll be talking about three recent *positive* developments for workers against corporate
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A wrap of my TikTok columns:1. TikTok-Microsoft Deal Might Solve Everything https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-07-31/tiktok-microsoft-deal-makes-sense-for-all-even-trump?sref=cSRHqDay2. Ban Would Leave Giant Social-Media Hole h
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THREAD: one factor leading to low payouts on streaming services is that the market is distorted by competitive services that pay artists nothing at all. At the top of that
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If you think "It's not censorship unless the government does it," I want to change your mind.It's absolutely true that the First Amendment only prohibits government action to suppress speech
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Yesterday, I tweeted appreciation for an article about SaaS by @jaminball , saying it "taught me more about tech businesses than a year of business undergrad". His content is not
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Here we go... @RepCicilline making his opening statement. #BigTechBarons Cicilline praising Sensenbrenner and "the former ranking member of the committee" Doug Collins. Pointedly not mentioning current ranking member, Big Tech
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