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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
The quest to bring antitrust law to bear against tech companies is finally paying off, but it's been a long, hard slog. At the vanguard have been two legal scholars:
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Matthew Feeney
M_feeney
Today the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee will hold a hearing on #Section230 featuring Zuckerberg, Dorsey, + Pichai.I want to highlight @CatoInstitute's work on the law and highlight misrepresentations
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Thibault Schrepel
LeConcurrential
A few (non-exhaustive) points that caught my attention while reading the new Google antitrust case – U.S. version.Link: https://www.justice.gov/opa/press-release/file/1328941/download. 1– Although the background part talks quite a lot a
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
We are living in a golden age of predatory capitalism, in which businesses that generate real value and stable employment are being destroyed by deep-pocketed quasi-tech firms that lose money
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
Back in November, we learned that Disney had pulled a breathtakingly criminal wage-theft manuever on one of science-fiction's most beloved authors, Allan Dean Foster, an elderly cancer-patient caring for his
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Sam Bowman
s8mb
1. I read the Buck Report last night, which he's framing as a "third way". I'm glad he hasn't endorsed the Cicilline report, but what he's proposing would lead to
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Pallavi Guniganti
PGunigantiAT
I'm thinking about which is the static and which the dynamic. For example, I would have thought preferring innovation in the form of software updates, over innovation in the form
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fedsoc sucks
matt__enloe
epic v. apple TRO hearing about to starthttps://cand-uscourts.zoomgov.com/j/1618764848?pwd=bW03Y2NvV0YrK2FQSkxoMXRxOWprQT09 2020 is fucking wild Judge asks how quickly the parties can brief, Cravath says immediately and on an expedited basi
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Brian Fung
b_fung
Epic and Apple are arguing for and against a temporary restraining order before Judge Gonzalez Rogers. “I can tell you right now I am inclined to not grant relief with
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The Childless Sledster 🎅🏽
jdconnor
I’ve been thinking about the end of the Paramount decrees and how movie distribution in the U.S. will drastically change as a result. The key is to think not about
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Jay Pinho
jaypinho
So I just hit 'Publish' on a newsletter I've been meaning to write, in one form or another, for a long time. http://tinyletter.com/networked/letters/video-was-never-the-answer It's narrowly about the infamous 'pivot to
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Geoffrey Manne
geoffmanne
I was asked to give comments to the House Judiciary Committee on its investigation into competition in digital markets. You can read them in full here: https://icle.xyz/3bzZ92L My comments focus
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Cory Doctorow
doctorow
40 years ago, a fabulist named Robert Bork dreamed up an imaginary history of US antitrust law in order to justify dismantling it. 1/ This Nixon co-conspirator - beloved of
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Adam Kovacevich
adamkovac
A few peanut-gallery thoughts on DOJ v Google as a veteran of Google #antitrust, based on DOJ preview in WSJ 1/https://www.wsj.com/articles/justice-department-to-file-long-awaited-antitrust-suit-against-google-11603195203?mod=hp_lead_pos1 T
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sarah jeong
sarahjeong
holy goddamn shit the cravath partner representing epic today is...... katherine b. forrest, the judge from the silk road case time is a flat circle cc: @susie_c the hearing starts
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Jason Kint
jason_kint
OK, I'm here. Google witness first. He's sharing a verbal version of G's propaganda blog post re: how much of ad supply chain gets captured by Google. Best thing I
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