Democrats, eager to rein in social media and other internet platforms, urge Biden to focus on tech regulation, before Republicans can retake the House or Senate
White House ‘not a really active presence’ amid legislative efforts to rein in social media and other internet platforms Tweets: @tyler , @adamkovac , @wexler , @amyklobuchar , @alexeheath , @wsj , an...
Dismissals of FTC and state AGs suits against Facebook shows the difficulty of making antitrust charges stick and could spur lawmakers to toughen antitrust laws
and how Facebook's big court win could actually help it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : “This is going to strengthen the case for legislation,” said Herbert Hoven...
The dismissal of FTC suit against Facebook shows the difficulty of making antitrust charges stick and could spur lawmakers to strengthen outdated antitrust laws
and threw cold water on the heated campaign to brand Big Tech as illegal monopolists. It shows just how tough it will be for regulators to make their charges of tech malfeasance stick. https://www.axi...
Interview with Rep. Cicilline on his bipartisan package taking on Big Tech, Apple's DOJ subpoena, Facebook's platform lock-in, and acquisition and merger reform
Representative David Cicilline's bipartisan package takes aim at tech companies and would be the biggest antitrust reform in decades.
Rep. Cicilline says he's crafting around 10 smaller antitrust bills, to be ready in May, instead of a one huge bill that would be easier for Big Tech to defeat
MS IE was *totally* dominant 2000-2011, >80-90% most of decade, see https://visualcapitalist.com/ ... Q: how the hell do u drop the ball on IE & lose the battle for internet developer mindshare?!? cc ...
Emails from Mark Zuckerberg, revealed by the House antitrust panel, show that Facebook wanted to buy Instagram at least partly to explicitly avoid competition
Hey what's up driving to dinner … Teja Chedalla / Android Headlines : Emails Reveal Zuckerberg Neutralized Competition With Instagram Acquisition Jack Gramenz / news.com.au : Billion dollar buy labell...
Ahead of the antitrust hearing, a confidential GOP memo suggests lawmakers should focus on alleged “political bias in Big Tech”, not competition issues
Bloomberg : Tweets: @alibreland , @caseynewton , @jessekblum , @bgov , and @ericnewcomer Tweets: Ali Breland / @alibreland : wow, they're doing the same thing that they do literally every hearing abo...
House Judiciary Committee demands Jeff Bezos testify at a hearing on Amazon's alleged misuse of third-party seller data or face a potential subpoena
Dems & Republicans on the House Judiciary have sent a letter to Jeff Bezos insisting that he testify. The letter says that Amazon appears to have “exploited its role” to harm competition & appears to ...
Recap of Pichai's testimony before Congress, where he said Google had 100+ people working on a Chinese search engine but has no plans to launch it “right now”
does it? Washington Post : Google CEO Pichai says in Post interview the company is still figuring out China and hate speech … Ina Fried / Axios : Google's Pichai on antitrust: There's more internation...