Medium - Why the FTC Is Going After Big Razor — Instead of Big Tech

Medium editor Steve LeVine quotes Open Markets legal director, Sandeep Vaheesan, in a piece about the FTC suing to stop a big razor company merger.

“Hopefully this is the start of a revival of merger law,” Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, an anti-monopoly advocacy group, said of the FTC suit on Harry’s. But the Trump administration has so far taken a relatively passive approach to the tech giants, Vaheesan said. By comparison, most of the states last September joined forces to investigate Google. On Tuesday, representatives of the states met with Justice Department officials in a possible plan to combine efforts, but Vaheesan said the initiative remains outside Washington. “It is possible they join forces but the states are acting mainly because they see DOJ and FTC as sitting on their hands,” he said in an email.

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