Jonathan Kanter’s confirmation signals that it’s time for Big Tech executives to figure out how to make a living by serving people, not picking pockets.
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Open Markets’ concentration data on hearing aids was cited in a piece about Tim Wu’s speech on the Biden administration’s move to prioritize promoting competition and fighting monopoly power.
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Nikki Usher, senior fellow at the Center for Journalism & Liberty, writes about how public media is vulnerable to growing political interference over its operations, especially with higher education at the crossroads of the culture war.
Illinois professor Nikki Usher imagines an approach to local journalism—one built on authentic, viewpoint-driven reporting upheld by readers invested in the community. Read reviews and reactions.
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Sandeep Vanheesan, legal director, and Claire Kelloway, senior reporter, write in the LPE Project about the insufficient portrayals of antimonopoly policy in the field of agriculture. Their article shines a light on the misrepresented economic statuses of farmers across the states.
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Legal Director Sandeep Vaheesan writes about how the FTC can prohibit the harmful surveillance advertising business model used by Facebook, Google, and other platforms as an unfair method of competition, and force the corporations to develop benign methods of making money.
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Brian Callaci of Open Markets Institute writes in Forge Organizing about how trade unionism and the movement to stop monopolies are complements, not substitutes.
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Daniel Hanley, senior legal analyst, details the definition, history, and importance of clear bright-line rules when it comes to antitrust law.
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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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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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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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The president-elect doesn’t need Congress to break up monopoly power.
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In Monopolies Suck, Sally Hubbard shows us the seven ways big corporations rule our lives—and what must be done to stop them.
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Barry Lynn narrates his 20-year vanguard study of how monopoly power threatens individual liberty, democracy, prosperity, and national security. Read reviews and reactions.
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Legal Director, Sandeep Vaheesan, published an article in Democracy Journal highlighting how Amazon has built on it’s existing dominance as an online retailer during the COVID-19 pandemic through retaliation against worker’s yearning for better worker conditions.
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Open Markets Institute on ProMarket proposes a system of simple rules that complies with the traditional American approach to protecting and restructuring an open and democratic society, With the five key planks discussed in this article, OMI offers an opportunity to reinstate antimonopoly through this bright-line initiative. With clear objective to reimpose America’s open democracy, the Open Markets team declares, “From the first, effective antimonopoly policy has relied on simple, bright-line rules. Today again, a comprehensive set of simple structural limitations— implemented through legislation, regulation, and policy guidance—is critical to protecting our democracy and our most fundamental liberties.”
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