In a comment letter to the FTC, Open Markets Institute urges the Commission to use the full extent of the law to crack down on surveillance-enabled pricing.
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In this issue, we explore how IBM’s stranglehold over mainframe computing, built up over decades, offers a cautionary tale for today’s monopolies in cloud and AI technologies.
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Senior reporter Karina Montoya argues that the court’s behavioral remedies against Google’s ad tech monopoly offer some new protections for publishers and competitors, but fall short of the structural breakup needed to meaningfully dismantle Google’s market power.
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Legal director Sandeep Vaheesan discusses how Federal judges clearly exposed Google's illegal, anti-competitive tactics in search and ad tech, yet failed catastrophically by refusing to dismantle the company's monopolies or strip away its economic weapons.
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After finding Google guilty of illegal conduct, this decision is an embarrassing capitulation that essentially lets them determine their own punishment in exchange for a promise not to repeat the behavior.
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In a new policy brief, Giorgos Verdi, George Colville, and Dora Wierzbicka set out how Europe’s Tech Sovereignty Package needs to be strengthened in order to effectively reduce Europe’s dependence on foreign digital infrastructure. The Commission’s proposals contain many promising elements, but the package needs to be more ambitious, more rigorous in ensuring it does not in fact benefit existing foreign dominant actors, and more holistic in its treatment of the problem.
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In this issue, we discuss measures Europe has taken to reduce its dependence on U.S. tech corporations and mitigate the risks of technological coercion by the Trump administration.
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In a new policy brief, George Colville makes the case for urgent updates to the DMA to ensure it can meaningfully tackle cloud concentration. Without such changes, the newfound determination to break apart the cloud oligopoly is likely to make little difference, even after Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure were designated as gatekeepers under the DMA.
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Barry Lynn released a statement condemning the decision in U.S. v Google, in which U.S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema declined to order the breakup of Google’s AdX ad exchange.
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CMDG Director, Dr. Courtney Radsch, calls on policymakers and legislators to use this settlement as a minimum floor to pursue more expansive reforms that put an end to harmful platform design for all users.
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CMDG director Courtney Radsch explains that courts are beginning to hold Meta, TikTok, and other platforms accountable for harmful design choices that allegedly prioritized engagement over child safety, challenging their ability to hide behind Section 230.
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In this issue, we take a look at how FIFA manipulated World Cup ticket prices, and the lessons for Congress and enforcers.
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The Center for Media and Digital Governance (CMDG) at the Open Markets Institute urged the Federal Trade Commission to withdraw its proposed policy statement on AI accuracy, warning that the agency is attempting to use consumer protection law to undermine state AI safeguards while advancing a legal theory that exceeds its statutory authority.
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In this issue, we take a look at how a new royalty scheme by dominant music streaming service Spotify shortchanges smaller artists in favor of the large music labels.
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In this issue, we explore how California’s COMPETE Act sets the stage for California to become a global superpower in antitrust, as the Trump administration all but suspends federal enforcement.
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Open Markets Institute applauds the 12 state attorneys general suing to block the Ellison family’s illegal, anti-democratic efforts to take over Warner Bros. Discovery properties and fold them into their Paramount-Skydance media empire.
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Policy and advocacy lead Giorgos Verdi argues that the EU’s Tech Sovereignty Package is a promising step toward reducing Europe’s dependence on U.S. technology firms, but warned it will fall short unless Europe also confronts the market concentration that allows Big Tech to dominate AI, cloud, chips, and digital infrastructure.
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In this issue, we take a look at two new rules from Italy and the U.K. to help news publishers negotiate fair compensation for their content with AI corporations. We also preview our June 24 conference on combating oligarchy, which will feature keynotes from Senators Elizabeth Warren, Chris Murphy, and Chris Van Hollen.
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