Uber and other powerful gig platforms on Tuesday rewrote California employment law in their own favor and against their workers’ interests by bankrolling the most expensive ballot measure in California history: Proposition 22.
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The Open Markets Institute, along with 36 public advocacy organizations and six scholars, sent the Federal Trade Commission a letter today requesting a status update on their joint petition for rule-making to ban exclusionary contracts.
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Open Markets Institute is excited to announce that Sally Hubbard, our director of enforcement strategy, today released her first book, “Monopolies Suck: The 7 Ways Big Corporations Rule Your Life and How to Take Back Control”.
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Open Markets Institute applauds the groundbreaking U.S. v. Google complaint for taking strong antitrust action against Google, but notes that it only addresses a portion of Google’s monopolization.
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Open Markets Institute applauds Rep. David Cicilline and the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust’s report and recommendations based on its 17-month investigation of America’s largest tech companies: Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Apple.
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Congress implored to act swiftly to rein in Big Tech’s anti-competitive behavior and acquisitions at the October, 2020, House Judiciary Antitrust Subcommittee hearing.
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Open Markets Institute Executive Director Barry Lynn releases, “Liberty from All Masters: The New American Autocracy vs. the Will of the People” as the House prepares for another hearing on Big Tech’s antitrust abuses. Lynn details how to protect our liberty and control Big Tech’s power with the laws we already have.
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Open Markets Institute released a new report revealing how many farmer co-ops have subverted anti-monopoly measures and grown into monopolies that prey upon their members. The report, called “Redeeming the Democratic Promise of Agricultural Cooperatives,” proposes a set of reforms and increased antitrust enforcement that could rebalance agricultural markets to serve the public interest again.
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New report details the dangers of Amazon’s pervasive worker surveillance and proposes solutions that stop surveillance and increase worker power.
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Open Markets’ report uncovers true culprit of book shortage: destructive mergers.
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Government’s failure to prohibit platform monopolists from discriminating exemplified in Amazon’s continued anti-competitive behavior against publishers and authors.
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Open Markets Institute releases a statement emphasizing the need to preserve good antitrust doctrine and to protect the public from tying by monopolists.
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The Open Markets Institute and the Center for Journalism & Liberty today welcome Johnny Ryan to their respective teams, with the veteran privacy and data specialist serving as a senior Open Markets fellow and joining the CJL’s Trans-Atlantic Board as an advisory member.
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The Open Markets Institute releases a statement urging the U.S. government to immediately take a series of actions in addition to forcing the sale of TikTok.
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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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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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