Daniel Hanley of Open Markets Institute writes in Washington Monthly about the significance of President Trump’s reversal of net neutrality.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shattered the lives and businesses of millions of American workers and entrepreneurs. And yet amid the country’s worst economic downturn in almost a century, Big Tech corporations continue to profit from predatory and illegal business practices.
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The Big Tech was a great victory for the American people. Questions by committee members brought a vast amount of damaging information to the public and raised fundamental questions about the legality of these corporations' business models and practices.
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The Open Markets Institute commends Rep. David Cicilline and Rep. Jerrold Nadler for leading a masterful investigation of Big Tech CEOs in the first half of the July, 29, 2020 hearing. Congress is making it absolutely clear that Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon abuse their power in ways that threaten American democracy.
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Open Markets Institute offers a short history of its work – on Amazon alone – to show how long Amazon has been building power, and why it is vital to fix Big Tech now.
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The Open Markets Institute applauds Rep. David Cicilline for conducting the historic Big Tech hearing, and urges members of the committee to seize the opportunity to protect American democracy from these dangerous corporations.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we explain how exclusionary contracts can result in a form of secret monopolization, and we detail Open Markets’ demand that the FTC ban the practice. We also encourage you to read ILSR’s groundbreaking guide to antitrust on the state level.
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Open Markets Institute joins Groundwork Collaborative to release a paper highlighting how the COVID-19 pandemic and economic crisis has exposed and exacerbated the flaws in the current global trading system, specifically as shortages of live-saving supplies like masks and ventilators have emerged across the world and countries have resorted to export bans to address them.
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Open Markets Institute provides a current reading list on media monopoly, tech and democracy.
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On July 21, 2020 3, Open Markets Institute filed a petition demanding the Federal Trade Commission ban exclusionary contracting by monopolists and other dominant firms. 30+ public interest groups and scholars signed the petition, including Food & Water Action, the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, and the American Economic Liberties Project. The petition calls on the FTC to use its unfair methods of competition authority to prohibit exclusionary contracting.
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The Center for Journalism & Liberty rejects the Department of Justice’s approval of Liberty Media’s acquisition of iHeartMedia and urges a merger moratorium to block future consolidation, especially via mediums like radio, that are essential to disseminating news to Americans.
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Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in Democracy Journal highlighting how Amazon has built on it’s existing dominance as an online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic through retaliation against worker’s yearning for better worker conditions.
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Listen to part one of our two-part panel series about the Washington Monthly’s “Best Hospitals for America” ranking, which measures individual hospitals on how well they save lives, save money, and serve everyone – especially low-income and minority populations within their communities.
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SmarterAnalyst’s Ben Mahaney reports on how Alphabet Inc.’s Google faces an antritust investigation, launched by the State of California. The investigation joins the 50 states and territories on their scrutiny of the tech giant’s control on advertising and internet searches. “We applaud the 50 state attorney generals for taking this unprecedented stand against Big Tech by uniting to investigate Google’s destruction of competition in search and advertising,” said the Open Markets Institute.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we introduce a groundbreaking study that details how U.S. hospitals fail their communities, as Open Markets’ scholars helped lead the research that produced these surprising and disturbing findings.
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Sally Hubbard, OMI's director of enforcement strategy, told Yahoo News' senior political correspondent how Facebook’s use of algorithms favor post engagement — even if the post contains false information or inflammatory remarks. “The problem is that [Facebook’s algorithm] boosts the hateful content because that is what is most engaging and serves Facebook’s business model. I don’t think you can fix this problem by these little Band-Aids that Facebook has been offering,” she said.
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The Open Markets Institute urges federal enforcers to block Uber’s acquisition of Postmates, which would consolidate the predatory delivery app market from just four dominant players to three, threatening vulnerable restaurants and gig workers already devastated by the pandemic.
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