Posts tagged October 2019
NYT: California Attorney General Is a No-Show on Tech Investigations
NYT: California Attorney General Is a No-Show on Tech Investigations

New York Time's David McCabe writes that Attorney General Xavier Becerra is in Google and Facebook’s backyard. But unlike nearly all other state attorneys general, he won’t say whether he’s investigating them. McCabe reports that on Oct. 1, eight groups who have advocated more aggressive scrutiny of companies like Facebook and Google wrote to Mr. Becerra asking to discuss their concerns with him. Sarah Miller, the deputy director of one group, the Open Markets Institute, said they wanted “to offer to share our views, to hear his views and to help brief or provide educational support.”

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Testimony of Barry Lynn Before the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee: The Nature of the Threats Posed by Platform Monopolists to Democracy, Liberty, and Individual Enterprise
Testimony of Barry Lynn Before the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee: The Nature of the Threats Posed by Platform Monopolists to Democracy, Liberty, and Individual Enterprise

On October 17, 2019, Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn testified before the Ohio Senate Judiciary Committee on 'The Nature of the Threats Posed by Platform Monopolists to Democracy, Liberty, and Individual Enterprise.’

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Testimony & Comment LettersOpen Markets2020, October 2019, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Barry Lynn, Center for Journalism & Liberty
Amicus Brief - Open Markets, Change To Win, NELP, and Economics and Law Professors, in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants in Shawne Alston, et al. v. NCAA, et al.
Amicus Brief - Open Markets, Change To Win, NELP, and Economics and Law Professors, in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants in Shawne Alston, et al. v. NCAA, et al.

On October 30, 2009, Open Markets Institute, Change To Win, the National Employment Law Project, and Professors Marshall Steinbaum, Sanjukta Paul, and Veena Dubal filed an amici curiae brief supporting current and former college basketball and football players in their antitrust suit against the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

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Amicus Briefs & PetitionsOpen Markets2019, October 2019, Labor
Reuters: Google results to share stage with U.S. antitrust probe
Reuters: Google results to share stage with U.S. antitrust probe

Reuters reports Alphabet Inc's, Google's holding company's, quarterly results which are under the shadow of a major antitrust probe by over 40 U.S. attorneys general. Open Markets Director of Enforcement Strategy Sally Hubbard told Reuters five years later the Google practices concerning investigators has not abated. “But the political winds have shifted,” said Hubbard, who worked for the New York AG from 2005 to 2012. “There’s a lot more momentum to fix the situation.”

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ClippingsOpen MarketsOctober 2019, 2019, Google
Amicus Brief - Open Markets in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants in PNE Energy Supply LLC v. Eversource Energy and Avangrid Inc.
Amicus Brief - Open Markets in Support of Plaintiffs-Appellants in PNE Energy Supply LLC v. Eversource Energy and Avangrid Inc.

Open Markets Institute filed an amicus brief in support of PNE Energy Supply in its lawsuit against Eversource Energy and Avangrid, Inc. on October 25, 2019. The two energy corporations are accused of abusing their monopoly power to gouge prices for consumers in New England.

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Amicus Briefs & PetitionsOpen Markets2019, October 2019, Competition Law & Philosophy
Farmers, Workers, and Students Rally Outside Aramark for More Ethical Food Sourcing
Farmers, Workers, and Students Rally Outside Aramark for More Ethical Food Sourcing

A a coalition of students, farmers, ranchers, fishers, and food workers rallied outside the Philadelphia headquarters of cafeteria operator, Aramark, to demand the corporation invest in more just and sustainable food systems. Open Markets' Researcher and Reporter Claire Kelloway spotlights their campaign targeting a system of contracts and kickbacks between dominant food corporations and the three largest food service management companies, Aramark, Sodexo, and Compass Group.

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BlogsClaire Kelloway2019, October 2019, Food & Power, Food & Agriculture, Claire Kelloway
Fast Company: This man says Big Tech is ‘the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War’
Fast Company: This man says Big Tech is ‘the greatest threat to democracy since the Civil War’

Fast Company's Talib Visram profiles Open Markets Institute Executive Director and Founder Barry Lynn. Lynn talks about his “vision of an alternative political economy” based on the nation’s founding principles. Regarding monopolies, Lynn told Fast Company: it is not just the tech companies. They’re just the problem on steroids.”

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ClippingsOpen MarketsBarry Lynn, Amazon, Google, October 2019, 2019
How Democrats Became the Party of Monopoly and Corruption
How Democrats Became the Party of Monopoly and Corruption

In this excerpt of his new book "Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy," Open Markets Fellow Matt Stoller explains how the "new" Democrats like Dale Bumpers and Bill Clinton of Arkansas worked to rid their state of the usury caps meant to protect the "plain people" from the banker and financier. The Democratic Party embraced not just the tactics, but the ideology of the Chicago School.

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Op-EdsOpen Markets2019, October 2019, Politics
The Guardian: 'Too much power': it's Warren v Facebook in a key 2020 battle
The Guardian: 'Too much power': it's Warren v Facebook in a key 2020 battle

The Guardian's Lauren Gambino speaks to Open Markets Deputy Director Sarah Miller about Facebook being put under the gun of antitrust scrutiny and reports on Elizabeth Warren and Mark Zuckerberg facing off over big tech and its influence over our lives. “They’re begging for regulation because they know they game it," Miller told The Guardian. "They know they can shape it, they know they can avoid it and they know that it will likely inhibit their competitors who won’t have the same resources. But, more than anything, they do not want to be broken up.”

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