Barry Lynn, Open Markets Institute, Executive Director writes about an Irish Council for Civil Liberties report arguing that it proves the EU is moving too slowly against Big Tech.
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Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, writes in Bloomberg Law that President Joe Biden has the chance to make good on his past statements condemning the use of noncompete clauses for American workers by making good appointments to the Federal Trade Commission.
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Senior reporter & researcher, Claire Kelloway, guest features on a podcast to discuss California’s Proposition 22 ballot initiative and Big Tech at large.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss a letter sent to the DOJ to block Bertelsmann's roll up of the book market and whether Rebecca Slaughter makes the FTC an anti-monopoly powerhouse.
The Open Markets Institute, the Authors Guild, and six other writers associations representing thousands of book authors call on the Justice Department to move immediately to block the private conglomerate, Bertelsmann, from buying the book publisher, Simon & Schuster.
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The Open Markets Institute and a diverse set of environmental, family farm, farm policy and rural community organizations sent a letter to the White House requesting an executive order to enact a moratorium on mergers and acquisitions in the food and agricultural industries.
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Daniel Hanley, policy analyst at the Open Markets Institute, and Beth Brodsky, former Louis Brandeis Law and Political Economy Fellow at the Open Markets Institute, write in Common Dreams showing that the FCC’s push to restructure America’s broadcast communication ownership would be a crushing blow to the already deficient levels of female and minority ownership in the broadcast industry.
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St. Martin's Press brings together recently published authors Zephyr Teachout and Barry Lynn to discuss what we can do to fight monopolies in 2021.
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Barry C. Lynn responds to Zach Carter’s review on Liberty From All Masters’.
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Open Markets Institute asserts that Google’s threat to stop providing search services to the people of Australia, and Facebook’s threat to block Australians from sharing links to news proves the platforms pose a fundamental threat to the world’s democracies.
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Open Markets Institute calls on the Biden Administration to immediately make clear that it intends to block Google's acquisition of FitBit in order to protect Americans and to demonstrate that it will not abide further disrespect by Google of democratic rule of law.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we discuss our statement on Amazon’s and Google’s shutdown of Parler and whether Merrick Garland will be the scourge of private monopoly.
Open Markets Institute condemns racism and neo-fascism absolutely and demands that lawmakers and law enforcers move immediately to fix the socially destructive business models of Facebook, Google, Amazon, and other essential platforms.
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Longtime digital executive Tom Davidson writes in the Center for Journalism & Liberty, a media program within Open Markets Institute, about how dozens of news organizations survive on more than sheer determination to provide neighborhood news.
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Open Markets Institute applauds the Australian competition regulator for refusing Google's attempt to circumvent further investigation about its proposed acquisition of Fitbit, urges the EU to reverse its decision to approve the merger, and calls on the U.S. DOJ, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and other nations to reject the deal.
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Welcome to The Corner. In this issue, we review the historic series of lawsuits targeting Google and Facebook the past two weeks and discuss why these moves don’t go far enough. We also explain our recent amicus brief to the Supreme Court to head off a legal threat to the FTC’s authority.