Category: Director’s Take
It’s becoming clear why neo-Brandeisians like an authoritarian approach to antitrust for Big Tech: Big Tech tends to win when cases are tried on their merits. Big Tech’s latest win occurred late last week when US District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ruled in Apple’s favor in Epic Games’ private-action antitrust suit against Apple. Epic [...]
The view in Washington appears to be that social media has become so important that it must come under government control. That this is a non sequitur seems lost on many. For example, some members of the House and Senate have mistakenly pressured Big Tech to steepen the political tilt of its content moderation. The [...]
Floridians need to get ready for the millions of broadband dollars that Congress is about to send. The latest draft of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill has $65 billion targeted for broadband development. It is unknown how much of this will come to Florida. But if we aren’t ready to manage the money wisely, we’ll [...]
Late last week, Apple and attorneys at the law firm Hagens Berman announced a class-action settlement of a 2019 case that small US iOS app developers had filed against Apple. The settlement includes $100 million for app developers, along with new opportunities to market app services not provided through Apple’s App Store. It is unclear [...]
Last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) filed its amended antitrust complaint against Facebook. The amendment was needed because a federal judge dismissed the FTC’s first complaint, finding that the agency had failed “to plausibly establish . . . that Facebook has monopoly power in the market for Personal Social Networking (PSN) Services.” The judge [...]