antitrust
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Cory Doctorow on Why Interoperability Would Boost Digital Competition
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Cory Doctorow is an activist and science fiction writer. He was the co-editor of the blog Boing Boing and has served in various roles at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a non-profit civil rights group. He holds an honorary doctorate in Computer Science from the Open University (UK) where he is…
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Likelihood, Feasibility, and Potential Competition: The Meta-Within Acquisition and The Future of Tech Antitrust
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In 2014, Facebook (now Meta) acquired two burgeoning social media firms, WhatsApp and Instagram, with no FTC or DOJ scrutiny. People celebrated the acquisitions and the lack of regulatory scrutiny. In the years since, the negative externalities from Meta’s monopoly have led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the use of…
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Reining in Big Tech: Updates to the Antitrust Regime
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Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced new legislation to the U.S. Senate earlier this year in response to perceived continuous overreach by American technology companies. This legislation aims to modify sections of the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914 that define unethical business practices and uphold workers’ rights. Critics argue that the…
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Weaken the US Patent System to Encourage Innovation
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Does current US patent law protect entrepreneurs or inhibit innovation?