The Google trial, an Amazon complaint, an attack on a private equity roll-up, a giant meat price-fixing suit, going after pharma cheating, and populist GOP antitrust nominations. Astonishing.
A consensus has very rapidly formed that reagan-era deregulation of monopolies, especially in big tech, is outmoded. I don’t trust the republican’s position here (it seems like they want to punish big tech companies for insufficient fealty to republican causes) but in at least the hands-across-the-aisle version, everyone agrees that facebook and google have to go
congress is … on it, in one of the most surprising twists of the 21st century https://www.lee.senate.gov/2023/3/the-america-act
Okay, now that is definitely unexpected.
A consensus has very rapidly formed that reagan-era deregulation of monopolies, especially in big tech, is outmoded. I don’t trust the republican’s position here (it seems like they want to punish big tech companies for insufficient fealty to republican causes) but in at least the hands-across-the-aisle version, everyone agrees that facebook and google have to go