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And how the Biden administration is using their playbook to take on Big Tech.
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And how the Biden administration is using their playbook to take on Big Tech.
On October 19 2023, the Federal Communications Commission voted to move forward on a proposal to reinstate net neutrality. This move would reestablish the agency's authority over broadband internet...
Lawyers for the Justice Department and Google as well as the judge in a monthslong trial have invoked the landmark case against Microsoft from the 1990s.
While cross-examining a witness for the Justice Department, John Schmidtlein, Google's lead trial lawyer, tried to describe how this suit differed from the landmark antitrust case brought against Microsoft in the 1990s. The barriers to competition in search today, Schmidtlein said, are less daunting than Microsoft's stranglehold on personal computer software.
The antitrust battles of the 1990s laid a foundation not only for the rise of modern tech platforms like Google, but for the way we think about regulating these platforms — or have neglected to do so.