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Hollywood has become a dreary group of narrow minded scolds. No thanks.https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2021/04/2021-0scars-tv-ratings-academy-awards-low-abc-disney-1234744135/amp/ One reason to break up the studios is because they

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

1. Paul Volcker is an important character in Goliath, because Volcker's job was to break the New Deal domestically so U.S. bankers could maintain their power abroad. And that's what

Excellent review of Obama's book by @ryanlcooper. There's something however that I don't think progressives are willing to countenance. And that is Obama's Democratic Party simply may not include a

1. I worked for a House member in 2009-2010 elected on opposition to war. Early in his term my boss spoke up for getting out of Afghanistan. We got a

1. I'll explain what I mean here. I'm a Biden voter. But it is fundamentally dangerous that Mark Zuckerberg and Sundar Pichai are making policy over how we deliberate over

The threats Facebook and Google made to Australia after that country attempted to regulate them come up in the Cicilline Report on big tech. Apparently @davidcicilline is unhappy when big

1. I'm reading Republican @RepKenBuck's leaked views on the big tech antitrust hearing, and it's quite a remarkable document. First, the Chicago School has lost the argument. Buck endorses the

"In 2016, internal analysis at Facebook found 64% of all extremist group joins were due to their own recommendation tools. Yet repeated attempts to counteract this problem were ignored or

I've been charitable to the new right, but the nomination of corporatist Amy Coney Barrett would move the case against them as no different than the rest of the GOP

1. I'm confused by RBG, as I don't really understand how she understood the point of law or what she meant by being committed to liberalism or equality. The best

The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on adtech is beginning.https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/meetings/stacking-the-tech-has-google-harmed-competition-in-online-advertising Google President of Global Partnerships and Corporate Donald Harri