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#antitrust

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LilMikeSF

200+ music industry #CEOs sign open letter urging #antitrust investigation into #UMG’s acquisition of Downtown Music Group. This deal has been in works for over 6 months and just one of several recent acquisitions by the mega music corp aggregation now known as #Universal Music Group . The corp whose roots were as #Music Corporation of America, has been extending tentacles for decades, but now far beyond mere recording & distribution, having merged into all tiers of publishing, touring and artist representation. Recent additions to portfolio include EU based #PIAS,( Play It Again Sam), Oriental Star Agencies, 8Ball Music, Hyperion, and several more #musicbiz labels, distribution arms, mgmt and artist rights firms

mixmag.net/read/200-music-ceo-

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Ian Brown 👨🏻‍💻

"One would rightly quail if just a few foreign firms owned Europe’s roads, ports or electricity grid. Yet, for 15 years, this is precisely what we’ve allowed to happen to our tech infrastructure — the backbone of our economy and democracy." 💯 #DMA #antitrust #Google #Meta #news #adtech #DigitalSovereignty #StrategicAutonomy politico.eu/article/digital-so

POLITICO · Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained awayBy Robin Berjon
Jan Blockx

Interesting take on the recent uptick in #antitrust enforcement by @pluralistic. However, I think billionaire capture of politics is much more pronounced in the US compared to other countries that have stricter campaign finance laws. In the US, billionaires can basically “bid” for political power through PACs. #USpol.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11476132

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Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du Net Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)Attached: 1 image Today's threads (a thread) Inside: Antitrust defies politics' law of gravity; and more! Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/mamdani/ #Pluralistic 1/
Calishat

#Google #EU #legal #antitrust

'Juliane Kokott, advocate general at the European Court of Justice, advised the court to throw out Google’s appeal and confirm the fine, which was reduced in 2022 to 4.125 billion euros from 4.34 billion euros previously by the EU’s General Court.'

cnbc.com/2025/06/19/google-loo

CNBCGoogle looks likely to lose appeal against record $4.7 billion EU fineThe fine relates to a long-running antitrust case surrounding Google's Android operating system.
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬

#Deere must face #FTC’s #antitrust #lawsuit over repair costs, #US judge rules
The lawsuit alleges Deere is violating federal antitrust law by controlling too tightly where and how #farmers can get their equipment repaired, allowing the Illinois-based company to charge artificially higher prices. The FTC was joined in its lawsuit by Michigan, Wisconsin and three other U.S. states.
reuters.com/legal/government/d
#righttorepair #JohnDeere

Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Agriculture equipment giant Deere must face a lawsuit by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission accusing the company of forcing farmers to use its authorized dealer network and driving up their costs for parts and repairs, a U.S. judge has ruled.

U.S. District Judge Iain Johnston in the federal court in Rockford, Illinois on Monday ruled for now to reject, opens new tab Deere’s effort to end the lawsuit, which was filed at the end of Democratic President Joe Biden’s administration in January.

The lawsuit alleges Deere is violating federal antitrust law by controlling too tightly where and how farmers can get their equipment repaired, allowing the Illinois-based company to charge artificially higher prices. The FTC was joined in its lawsuit by Michigan, Wisconsin and three other U.S. states."

reuters.com/legal/government/d

#USA#FTC#Deere
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Ben Waber

Next was an amazing talk by Greg Day on accounting for the time to market correction in antitrust at Yale ISP. After reviewing antitrust enforcement thought in previous decades, Day identifies the gaping logical hole at the center of even the staunchest opponents of government action - even *if* market power self-corrects in the long run, to borrow a phrase from Keynes, "in the long run, we're all dead." Highly recommend youtube.com/watch?v=S7qZl1caoE (6/9) #antitrust #law #economics

YouTubeLaw & Tech Speaker Series: Gregory DayBy Yale ISP
Miguel Afonso Caetano

"Google isn’t satisfied with its monopoly on the questions we search.

Google wants to use AI to monopolize the very answers themselves.

As one Google executive recently explained: “Organizing information is clearly a trillion-dollar opportunity, but a trillion dollars is not cool anymore. What’s cool is a quadrillion dollars.”

Google plans to use AI to consume and replace the open web.

I believe demolishing independent sites like mine was Google’s first step in clearing ground so it has space to rebuild search from the ground up for an “AI-first” future.

Google envisions a future where “Google does the Googling for you,” its AI and ads do the answering – and users never need to leave Google.

Google will just source information from a handful of sources and partner websites that it controls and selects – effectively creating an information cartel.

If Google can use AI to censor a travel website from the web arbitrarily and without opportunity for appeal – it can do the same to any source of information it wants.

And American citizens and Internet users everywhere will be worse off for it.

So while you may not really care about the plight of some random travel website getting censored, everyone should care about the way Google is deploying AI to build a censorship cartel that lets it control the flow of information online.

What follows is a lengthy summary of my experiences and my opinions as an independent publisher trying to survive in a monopolist’s information economy.

To start, let me explain how we got to this point where Google has the power to do this:"

travellemming.com/perspectives

#Google#SearchEngines#AI
ResearchBuzz: Firehose

MediaPost: Google Defeats Rumble Antitrust Suit . “A federal judge has dismissed conservative video platform Rumble’s claims that Google violated antitrust law by allegedly promoting YouTube in the search results, and by installing YouTube on Android devices. In a ruling issued last week, U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam, Jr. in the Northern District of California said Rumble’s […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/05/28/mediapost-google-defeats-rumble-antitrust-suit/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · MediaPost: Google Defeats Rumble Antitrust Suit | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#antitrust#Google#law
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May Likes Toronto

Anyway Episode 3 of CBC 's Understood - Who Broke the Internet with @pluralistic goes deep into the shittiness of Amazon and has an interesting overview of #antitrust. Also Lina Khan!

cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/135

CBC ListenUnderstood: Who Broke the Internet? | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen Host Cory Doctorow coined the word "enshittification" to describe the state of the modern internet: a broken down, decaying place, once full of promise, now overrun with intrusive ads, hateful trolls, aggressive algorithms, zero privacy, and AI-generated slop, with every billionaire tech titan in a race to the bottom to bleed their users and their customers alike. It can feel like it was inevitable — but it didn't have to be this way.The modern internet is the result of decisions made by powerful people, at key moments in history, despite repeated warnings about where it would lead. In Understood: Who Broke the Internet?, Doctorow traces the downward spiral from the heady days of '90s tech-optimism through to today's rotten "enshitternet." You'll meet everyone from visionaries to villains to regular people just trying to survive in today's online world. And you'll discover who broke the internet — and, more importantly, a plan to fix it.  Know more, now. Understood is an anthology podcast that takes you out of the daily news cycle and inside the events, people, and cultural moments you want to know more about. Over a handful of episodes, each season unfolds as a story, hosted by a well-connected reporter, and rooted in journalism you can trust. Driven by insight and fueled by curiosity…The stories of our time: Understood. Season 1 - The Naked Emperor: the rise and fall of bitcoin king Sam Bankman-Fried. Season 2 - The Pornhub Empire: the story of how a Montreal-founded company came to dominate the adult industry. Season 3 - Modi’s India: how one man rose from poverty to the peak of political power. Season 4 - Céline: the surprising cultural, political and business alchemy that created a superstar. Season 5 - Who Broke the Internet? The internet sucks now, and it happened on purpose.
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