In response to Judge Richard Leon's decision in the AT&T/Time Warner case today, the Open Markets Institute has released the following statement:
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Today the Supreme Court tilted the competitive playing field away from honest businesses and towards abusive ones.
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On Facebook's earnings call last night, CEO Mark Zuckerberg celebrated the corporation’s enormous profits and fast-growing advertising business.
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It's long past time for the FTC to wake up to the dangers posed by Big Tech, not only to privacy, not only to our economy, but to our democracy.
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The Open Markets Institute called on the Senate to confirm pending nominees to the FTC immediately so the agency has the capacity to address the clear danger Facebook presents.
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OMI believes the DOJ’s action should serve as a first step towards restoring the open, democratic, highly distributed media structure that existed in the United States through most of the 20th Century.
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Russian exploitation of Facebook’s monopoly structure to undermine America’s democracy means the FTC must act swiftly to curb its power.
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Google's proposed remedy of the European Commission's demand falls far short of what is necessary to address Google’s abuse of its dominant position in search.
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The Open Markets Institute applauds the Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) for recognizing that America has a monopoly problem and driving forward the conversation about how to address it.
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Open Markets congratulates European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager and the European competition authority for this important decision requiring that Google give equal treatment to rival services instead of privileging its own.
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Amazon announced today that it wants to buy grocery chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion in cash. If approved by regulators, the deal would worsen the already severe damage that Amazon is doing to America’s competitive, open market system.
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