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Talked about, as well as antitrust action, regulation when it comes to transparency, data privacy, perhaps carving out some parts of section 230. maybe the whole menu needs to be considered. it has to be absolutely right, a lot of smaller companies can get caught up in these regulations and be punished. facebook could thrive, which is what we saw in europe with the data privacy regulation there, it actually favors in some ways the biggest companies arguably. so it has to be done right, but also ...

REVEALED: Google and Facebook formed Jedi Blue pact to dominate online ads and plotted to team up if they were hit with antitrust probe, lawsuit claims Unredacted lawsuit from 10 states alleges the two companies agreed to cooperate and assist one another in battling antitrust investigations Deal dubbed Jedi Blue by Google saw Facebook agree not to compete with Googles online advertising tools in exchange for special treatment, suit claims Suit alleges that Facebook committed $500 million a yea...

SHARE Facebook Inc. and Google LLC signed an agreement to cooperate with one another to fend off potential antitrust action targeting their businesses, according to a Wall Street Journal report published today. The report attributes the information to a draft copy of a lawsuit that was filed against Google last week by 10 Republican state attorneys general.  The version of the lawsuit that was released to the public last week has multiple redacted sections. The draft copy obtained by the Journ...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: A federal grand jury in Texas indicted the owner of a therapist staffing company on wage-fixing charges on December 9. Although this is the US Department of Justice’s first criminal wage-fixing prosecution, the indictment underscores that enforcement agencies remain focused on policing these types of anticompetitive agreements that restrict competition in labor markets. For the past few years, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and ...

Football team at napa high school found out about it. they came and celebrated his birthday with him. this picture is so darling. my loser is big tech. this has been building for a long time. if you look at the combination of warrens efforts to break it up, the senators transparency, legislation, the doj looking at antitrust action. the ftc decisions are broke along party lines but most of this is very nonpartisan. they waited too late to give something. they have no political safe harbor anymor...

Business processes, really important antitrust action. >> john? >> following up on that, we know the presidents attacks on amazon seem excessive on twitter lately. he says theyre costing the post office money. >> right. >> the political difference between the actions the dojs taken against time warner merger and thats very much in the news. >> sinclair is trying to buy up more stations. its been reviewed by the fcc which has a trump appointee running the fcc and so far that seems to be on a pret...

Current thing theyre doing and one new idea that theyre testing, and if that one new idea really works, it will replace the current system. if you just mandated that, youd get lots of creativity out of the folks that work for us in our government. >> to what degree does crisis stifle that? and i asked you this, too, because you have constant crises at google, a product that may not have the uptick that you wanted, the eu looking at antitrust action? theres always something that seem the like its...