antitrust
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EconomicsLibertyPoliticsRegulation
Can You Understand Me Now? Privacy Policy Basics
by Bartlett Cleland June 27, 2018Despite coughing up reams of information about themselves in exchange for often minimal benefits, consumers are now suddenly concerned about their privacy.
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Budgets/TaxesInternet/Telecom
Implications of DOJ’s Potential Challenge of the AT&T Time Warner Merger
by Scott Cleland November 19, 2017Transactions should be legally treated similarly according to legal precedent – basic fairness.
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Internet/Telecom
Why US Antitrust Non-Enforcement Produces Online Winner-Take-All Platforms
by Scott Cleland June 25, 2017If one considers the evidence, it is evident that U.S. antitrust enforcers have enabled the current “new normal” of online winner-take-all platforms.
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FeaturedInternet/TelecomLegal Affairs
Why Amazon Buying WholeFoods Will Attract Serious Antitrust Scrutiny
by Scott Cleland June 17, 2017The facts and analysis that follows will show why it is quite clear that the reviewing antitrust authority will want to be thorough and not cursory in its formal review of this Amazon-WholeFoods transaction.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Alphabet-Google Big Takeaways from Trump Antitrust Chief’s Senate Answers
by Scott Cleland June 2, 2017Reportedly the EU will rule Google has abused its search dominance this summer, putting the growth and profitability of the ~30% European part of Alphabet-Google’s revenue base at risk.
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Internet/Telecom
Google Takeaways from Trump Antitrust Chief’s Senate Confirmation Hearing
by Scott Cleland May 12, 2017What did the Senate confirmation hearing for President Trump’s nominee to head up the DOJ Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, tell us that’s relevant to the biggest pending global antitrust issue — Google? A lot.
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Internet/Telecom
Google Antitrust Implications of Makan Delrahim as DOJ Antitrust Chief
by Scott Cleland April 1, 2017President Trump’s impressive nominee to head the DOJ Antitrust Division, Makan Delrahim, enters the global antitrust stage when one company, America’s Alphabet-Google, has been under near constant antitrust investigation.
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Internet/Telecom
Look What’s Happened Since the FTC Stopped Google Antitrust Enforcement
by Scott Cleland March 18, 2017The evidence is overwhelming that Alphabet-Google has broadly extended its search and search monopolies into several more markets, and that it has done so anti-competitively in the four years since the FTC chaotically shut down its search, search advertising, and Android investigations in January 2013.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedLibertyPodcast
In The Tank Podcast (ep46): #OurAmerica, Monopolies and Antitrust, and Sin Taxes
by Donald Kendal July 8, 2016John and Donny are joined by Heartland Director of Communications Jim Lakely in episode #46 of the In The Tank Podcast. This weekly podcast features (as always) interviews, debates, and roundtable discussions that explore the work of think tanks across the country. The show is available for download as part of the Heartland Daily Podcast every Friday. Today’s podcast features work from the Heartland Institute, the Center for American Progress, and the Commonwealth Foundation.
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Few outside of Alphabet-Google understand the immense market, economic, and technological power of an unaccountable monopoly over the underlying software that controls most all mobile devices in the world. Fortunately EU antitrust enforcers are some of the few who understand it.