monopoly
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ConstitutionGovernmentPolitics
Leftists Are Stupid and They Lie. It’s Their Jam
by Seton Motley August 31, 2020The Leftist leadership isn’t smart – so much as they are cunning
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Internet/Telecom
When the Ninth Circuit Court Unanimously Says You’ve Gone Too Far Left…
by Seton Motley August 17, 2020A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed a 2019 ruling by a federal judge who found that Qualcomm had abused its monopoly position in wireless chips and overcharged mobile phone makers for its patents.
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EconomicsGovernmentInternet/Telecom
The Media-Left’s Warped, Hypocritical, Political Definition Of ‘Monopoly’
by Seton Motley May 18, 2018As DC-based nationally syndicated radio host Chris Plante rightly notes: “Were it not for double standards – the Left would have no standards at all.”
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Internet/Telecom
Trump Administration Implications for Google Antitrust in EU, US & Markets
by Scott Cleland April 9, 2017Most of what we have learned in the five months since the election indicates that the Trump Administration is not going to be Google’s antitrust advocate and protector like the Obama Administration effectively was from 2013-2016.
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I was huddled in a Connecticut legislative hearing room on a chilly spring morning three years ago, awaiting my chance to testify about a proposal to over-regulate e-cigarettes.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
ObamaCare And Net Neutrality Are Doing Exactly The Damage Their Opponents Predicted
by Seton Motley August 2, 2016Like with all huge new government power grabs, there are a few very predictable post-grab outcomes. Let’s look at a few through the prisms of relatively new grab Net Neutrality – and ObamaCare, a more vintage grab thus doing even more predicted damage.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google’s Growing US Search/Android Share Complicates FCC’s AllVid Proposal
by Scott Cleland May 29, 2016As more evidence comes to light exposing Google’s much increased search and Android dominance in the U.S. since the FTC closed its search and Android antitrust probes in January 2013, it only becomes clearer that the FCC’s AllVid proposed rulemaking to “Unlock the [set-top] Box” is obviously anticompetitive overall, not pro-competitive as the FCC naively claims.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
The Trust Ramifications of an EU-Google Search Bias Conviction
by Scott Cleland May 20, 2016The Sunday Telegraph reports that the EU is poised to fine Google an EU record ~€3b for “web search monopoly abuse” and that “Google will be banned from continuing to manipulate search results to favour itself and harm rivals.”
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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.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Bitcoin, Other Alt-Currencies Offer More Choices for Consumers
by Jesse Hathaway January 19, 2016In just eight years, Bitcoin and the idea of “virtual currency” have gained acceptance and use both online and in the physical world. Spread by word of mouth and other “viral” means, decentralized virtual currencies have gone from a mere thought experiment to a tangible economic reality.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – James Taylor: Florida Solar Power Amendment Not Free Market
by H. Sterling Burnett January 5, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Heartland Vice President of External Relations James Taylor sits down with Managing Editor of Environment & Climate News H. Sterling Burnett. James joins Burnett to discuss the proposed solar amendment in Florida.