TikTok Got A US Reprieve, But Elsewhere, It’s War
Tik-Tok is getting its wings clippped. But how far will containment efforts go?
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Should President Biden Revoke Section 230?
“What to do about tech platforms” has fixated on Section 230, when more should be done.
Read more...Michael Olenick: From Intel to Apple – Noncompetes are Bad Business
Silicon Valley would never have taken off if noncompetes had been used in its early years, yet titans later restricted hiring across the industry.
Read more...Rise of the Superstar Firms: Taking Oligopoly Seriously in Macroeconomics
Quelle surprise! Only now that EU and US officials are up in arms about monopolies are macroeconomics pros taking it seriously.
Read more...Wikipedia: The Overlooked Monopoly
Low-quality anonymous “editors” combined with a Google tie-up turned an interesting experiment into an overlooked but destructive monopoly.
Read more...The Pain of Service Crapification
How Covid is extending the reach of crapification.
Read more...Schaudenfreude Alert: Bezos-Buffet-Dimon Health Care Industry Disruptor Haven Makes Faceplant, Announces Closure
Even three rich smart guys couldn’t get a half baked idea like Haven off the ground.
Read more...Google Rigged Its Own Advertising Auction In Favor of Facebook for a Price (and What That Means for the So-Called Free Market)
Google fiddles with the weights and measures of commerce.
Read more...Critics Warn Repeal of Section 230 ‘Would Be Devastating for Human Rights, Social Movements, and Marginalized People’
No, Section 230 is not about Facebook. It protects you from liabilty if you forward an e-mail, so you should think twice about a repeal.
Read more...Larry Wilkerson: No Evidence of Massive Russian Hack
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson says so far the anti-Russia hysteria about an alleged hack looks like the phony claims about WMD in Iraq.
Read more...Antitrust Spring
Regulators and officials are dusting off antitrust rule books to go after tech monopolists.
Read more...How President Biden Can Fix our Trade Problem
Trump’s approach to trade largely failed because the problem can’t be solved by tariffs. Here’s the answer.
Read more...DoorDash Delivery Workers Would Need to Toil for Two Days to Buy a Single Share of Their $60 Billion Company
A look at how DoorDash exploits its workers, and how they and some legislators are seeking to change that.
Read more...Google Monopolizes Ad Markets Through Conduct Lawmakers Prohibit in Other Electronic Trading Markets
How Google’s abuses allow the search giant to dominate online advertising, and what can be done about it.
Read more...This Is What Can Happen When a Cross-Border Bank Merger Goes Horribly Wrong
As Banco Sabadell’s disastrous acquisition of UK TSB has shown, a bank merger can founder due to botched IT integration.
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