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Amazon antitrust lawsuit seeks to boost competition
While federal and state regulators have spent years nibbling around the edges of unrestrained tech industry power, a lawsuit filed by the Federal Trade Commission and 17 […]
Google has force-fed us ads
Now an antitrust case could change the internet forever by Julia Stoyanovich The feds are coming after Google. In January, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust […]
Streaming platforms have grown too powerful. Time to break them up
by Miles Mogulescu The Hollywood writers’ strike is in its fourth month, and the actors’ strike is in its fourth week with no end in sight. Many […]
Calif. and Canada must call Google’s and Facebook’s bluff
by Brian Merchant In June, Canada passed a law that will require major tech platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay a small fee when they […]
Facebookopoly: Meta’s info empire
by Seth David Radwell In the world of social media, Facebook is ubiquitous. Coming from humble beginnings as a Harvard student’s pet project, it’s now expanded to […]
Google antitrust lawsuit can set precedent for
tech monopolies
It’s not every day that the federal government and states as varied as Tennessee and New York find themselves on the same side of a legal dispute, […]
Grocery store monopolies are bad news for shoppers
by Rebecca Wolf American families are heading into the end-of-year holidays facing sticker shock in the grocery aisles. Prices have jumped 13% over the past year, with […]
Time to break Big Tech’s stranglehold
Yesterday, we covered the Open App Markets Act — a bill in Congress that targets the anticompetitive practices in app stores. Today, we’ll cover its companion bill, […]
Bill would chip away at Big Tech duopoly
If you’re someone who still watches cable television, you may have seen commercials recently that say something along the lines of liberals are attacking the tech industry, […]