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Divisions within party caucuses, particularly Republicans, are emerging as a new threat to Congressional action against alleged monopolistic behavior by tech giants.Why it matters: It's a blow to the longstanding theory that a bitterly divided Congress could still agree to tighten the antitrust screws on Big Tech, since both sides have beefs with the industry.Stay on top of the latest market trends and economic insights with Axios Markets. Subscribe for freeWhat's happening: Key Republicans on t

A similar law was proposed during the Nixon administration. The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 created an antitrust exemption for news media outlets, allowing competing, co-located  newspapers to combine business operations through a joint operating agreement. Similar to the JCPA, the 1970 law was portrayed as a means to save the newspaper industry from new technology. The television boom of the 1950s and 1960s ushered in a new era of information consumption. Televisions displaced newspapers as people’s primary and preferred news source, which negatively impacted newsrooms across the ...

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They do. >> steve: what did he do? >> he was an ex- cia operative based in beijing and arrested two months ago. we learned the reason that 20 or so of our key assets in china were either executed or imprisoned because he gave the names of them to the beijing government. he was a u.s. citizen with the chinese background. we know it china's doing and what google does. why are these companies abusing rights, human rights and free speech or facebook blocking ads. the core of the problem is that in a brilliant fashion they threaded the needle between left and right. they said that you are open-mark...

Anti -- hands off, really, deregulation. >> right, pro business. >> pro business. >> right. >> and now here they are attempting to block the at&t/time warner merger -- of course, the parent company of cnn. interesting, because the top cop on antitrust legislation, he said in september of last year this about this very deal. and makan delrahim is an expert on this very subject and now in charge of the case. >> this is more of what we would call a vertical merger, a content with distribution, rather than two competitors merging. so, i anticipate that the fcc will have little, if any role, and it...