Tag: big tech
Amid the bipartisan rush to judgment on Big Tech, there was a glimmer of hope in the recent debate among the Democratic presidential contenders: Some pushed back on prejudging tech antitrust cases. Read Dr. Mark Jamison's full post online at AEI.
The AGs are zeroing in on Alphabet — Google’s parent company — but they are sniffing around Facebook and other US tech leaders too. This is likely to be yet another costly investigation for Alphabet. The EU has already fined it about $9 billion. US federal antitrust authorities have investigated Alphabet before and are doing [...]
People seeking government protections from market competition generally tell a story about the nobility of their work and how society suffers if the protection-seekers face competition. The Bell System monopoly argued that rural America would lose telephone service if MCI was allowed to provide long distance service. Google, Facebook et al. argued that net neutrality [...]