The FTC just announced its long-awaited case against Amazon this morning, which will destroy the retailer’s popular customer-focused services. The FTC’s case comes after years of speculation about how the FTC will need to invent radical new approaches to antitrust to attack one of the nation’s most popular businesses. Research shows the FTC’s theories will […]
Today the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation convened a full committee hearing to consider three nominees to the FTC after several months of the typically-bipartisan Commission operating without two minority commissioners. Ahead of this confirmation hearing, here’s what you need to know about the FTC’s and DOJ’s recent activities: The FTC is shifting […]
This week, the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit against Google enters a crucial phase: trial. The backward-looking case ignores the dynamism of the modern tech ecosystem and more than 40 years of case law, to present a weak and misguided argument that jeopardizes the innovative search results that help American consumers and businesses every day. During “the […]
US District Judge Amit Mehta has dismissed state Attorneys’ General claims that Google’s search results harmed competition. The ruling is an unequivocal win for consumers and American businesses who benefit from innovative search results that make information available quickly and easily. States spent three years and countless taxpayer dollars pursuing claims that had been dismissed […]
In a recent video, Forbes Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes criticizes the FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon Prime, echoing similar concerns raised by experts over the case’s legal and economic issues. Forbes raises the following points about the nonsensical lawsuit: Enormous Benefit: “Analysts at J.P. Morgan estimate that for a customer to get Prime services separately, it would […]
On Wednesday morning, the FTC and DOJ released a draft of the agencies’ updated merger guidelines, which could dramatically limit companies’ ability to innovate and grow. As yet another example of the agencies’ regulatory overreach, the drastic changes taken by the FTC and DOJ fundamentally misunderstand the nature of mergers and merger enforcement for several […]
In a recent piece in The Washington Examiner, political strategist Matt Mackowiak discusses Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter’s former work for clients such as Microsoft, and how his myriad conflicts of interest call into question his departure from the pro-consumer antitrust standard designed to “protect the public from high costs.” Mackowiak reports that Kanter’s conflicts […]
As the FTC voices “concerns” about competition in the AI space, it’s important to remember that generative AI shows how competitive and dynamic the tech sector is. Since the introduction of ChatGPT earlier this year, the tech space has undergone yet another evolution. With so much potential in new areas of AI technology, companies of […]
Hostility to innovation and technology diminishes the incredible Internet-enabled opportunities that leading tech services provide: empowering consumers, driving prices down and increasing choice, and providing platforms to help entrepreneurs grow their businesses. It has given us a golden era of entertainment, knowledge, and everything from fashion startups, to booming mom and pop stores, to the latest app.
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