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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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Roy Canivel
roycanivel_inq
Congress snuck a provision in the new Bayanihan law to keep the Philippine Competition Commission from going after problematic mergers and acquisitions — a provision that was neither consulted with
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Alex Stamos
alexstamos
A core problem at Facebook is that one policy org is responsible for both the rules of the platform and keeping governments happy.https://twitter.com/dseetharaman/status/1265312209602674688 It is very hard to make product
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Todd Vierling
ToddVierling
This week after testimony to Congress from the CEOs of major tech companies, news outlets covered it with supposed historical context. Most of those outlets missed the boat, but none
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Adam Thierer
AdamThierer
1/ Remember when critics were panicking about AT&T's acquisition of DirecTV 5 years ago? Well, now T is already looking to sell at considerable loss. https://www.wsj.com/articles/at-t-again-exploring-a-deal-for-directv-11598645254?m
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Bryce Blum
esportslaw
Random, off the cuff thoughts on the Epic Games complaint v Apple. I'm writing these as I read, so it'll be stream of consciousness1. This was written w/ far more
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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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TechFreedom
TechFreedom
Today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing will explore competition in app storesTo understand the enormous value created by app stores, you have to look back at the world before they existedWe
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Joshua A. Geltzer
jgeltzer
I hope every American watches on Wednesday at noon Eastern as the curtain begins to lift on Barr's Justice Department.Former Roger Stone prosecutor Aaron Zelinsky & others will help us
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Anthony Bardaro
AnthPB
/1Media coverage of Big Tech has taken a "whistledrowning" approach to the sector's category killers...which isn't to say that $aapl $googl $fb $amzn et al are guileless, but, rather, the
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Kostya Medvedovsky
kmedved
Tim should consider taking his own advice here and add "more disclaimers or warnings" to his piece indicating he hasn't actually read very much @stratechery and doesn't understand the thesis
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Ted Tatos
TedTatos
Immediate win-for-all situation: NCAA should drop its restriction on NIL rights for athletes and let EA Sports, etc. make & sell the NCAA basketball/football games, benefiting all constituencies. Why? Pandemic
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Gabriel Weinberg
yegg
We haven't seen the final complaint yet, but as we understand it right now, the US Department of Justice today is saying in no uncertain terms that Google used, and
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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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Nicolas Petit
CompetitionProf
Totally agreed. The problem is: the neo structuralists behind the house report are not interested in a conversation.https://twitter.com/dougmelamed/status/1314276845668298753 They consider evidence based policy to be a construct designed to
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Matt Stoller
matthewstoller
1. The GOP has been aggressive about big tech, at least rhetorically. Clarence Thomas, for instance, called Google a monopoly twice last week. But there's also resistance, with some Republican
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