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Husband, Father of 6, and Antitrust Attorney. Partner @KressinMeador . Visiting Fellow @Heritage . Alumnus: @FTC , @JusticeATR , @SenMikeLee . Tweets my own.☦️

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Mark Meador

11 months

Re-upping this for no particular reason other than it reflects my views on how conservatives should think about antitrust policy. I'll be fleshing this out in more detail in writing soon.

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Will We Revolutionize Antitrust? (ft. Mark Meador)

In Today's episode of "Moment of Truth," Saurabh sits down with Mark Meador, Partner at Kressin Meador and former Deputy Chief Counsel to Senator Mike Lee, t...

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WHO DID THIS

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This is the way.

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9 months

Google took out a 2-page ad in the weekend WSJ to remind people of how much of our government and public institutions it has its tentacles in. National defense agencies, school districts, and local governments all share a single point of failure now. Who elected Google?

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When Apple said sideloading would lead to a bad user experience, it apparently meant that it would *make* it a bad user experience.

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It takes 15 clicks to install an app from the web using the newly proposed Apple flow. Here's the journey: 🧵1/5

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1 year

Insight into what a DeSantis antitrust agenda might look like…

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10 months

Google: The evidence will prove our innocence! Also Google: No one can see the evidence.

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Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen

10 months

Judge Mehta appeared exasperated with Google towards the end of Wednesday, saying they'd left him "in a pickle" by insisting on a closed session to discuss an exhibit that was not confidential but "embarrassing" so now all its context is sealed.

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7 months

The biggest divide on the right today is over whether we ought to be more like George Bailey or Henry Potter. America needs more George Bailey conservatives.

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2 months

Judge Mehta wisely observing that Google's ability to degrade search quality without suffering any appreciable loss of users is evidence of monopoly power, even if unexercised. #USvGoogle

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10 months

I cannot conceive of a more ignorant understanding of antitrust law generally, or this case specifically. Amazing that the tech companies pay for this stuff.

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Hannah Cox

10 months

Tomorrow, the US Government is suing Google for being too popular. Yes, really. And the consequences could be the internet as we know it. The government breaks everything it touches - do not let it break Google. Here’s everything you need to know 🧵 1. This is the first major

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8 months

This is Judge Leo Sorokin delivering what should have been a career-ending evisceration to for-hire economist Mark Israel in DOJ’s successful suit to unwind a partnership between American Airlines and Jet Blue. Google called Israel as its economic “expert” today 😬

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Mark Meador

8 months

Gee, I wonder why Amazon didn’t like Sen. Lee’s ad tech bill…

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Douglas Farrar

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8 months

Amazon pursues a pay-to-play scheme forcing sellers to buy ads. Worse, many of these ads are junk ads that aren’t relevant to what users search for. Jeff Bezos and co. call these Junk Ads “defects,” and sellers pay big bucks for them. 2/15

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8 months

Believing in limited government doesn’t mean you can’t use the government to protect people from bad things. That’s not limited government, that’s no government. Conservatives believe in ordered liberty, not anarchocapitalist libertarianism.

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Hannah Cox

8 months

“Conservatives” who want to use big gov against tech companies they don’t like are utter fools. Not only are they violating their principles of limited government, they’re actually empowering the very companies they dislike while also setting a precedent for big gov to be used

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3 months

A common talking point among Big Tech defenders is that we need to protect American companies to better compete with China, et al. It's the "national champion" approach. If you want to know what that looks like in practice, look no further than Boeing.

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The Decay of Boeing

The aircraft manufacturer is the flagship company of U.S. airpower and aerospace. Succession failure in engineering and on the factory floor now threatens its functionality.

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Mark Meador

7 months

I’m struggling to see how Carl is being anything but disingenuous here. Epic only sought injunctive relief; it didn’t ask the court to give it a dime. Google objects, however, precisely because it cares about … getting more money. Shills gonna shill, I guess.

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Carl Szabo

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In Epic v Google, it's all about the $$$ for Epic This should come as no surprise to anyone, but Epic is not a philanthropic entity that is only brining lawsuits against Apple and Google out of the goodness of Epic's heart, it's about Epic wanting more money. There is nothing

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6 months

Sen. Sherman destroying "build your own" back in 1890

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Mark Meador

10 months

When tech companies say that age verification threatens privacy, they mean the privacy of what they show your children when you’re not looking.

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3 months

I really don’t get this memetic phenomenon of mocking every effort to stop direct competitors from merging just because they’re not trillion-dollar businesses. Maybe FTC ends up losing, but it was a unanimous, bipartisan vote, not some nefarious power grab.

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Thom Lambert

@profthomlambert

3 months

First it was Big Sandwich. Now it’s Big Accessible Luxury Handbag! Save us!

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7 months

To all the lobbyists who were beating down my door for two years to insist that FTC’s investigation and lawsuit against Illumina/Grail was unconscionable, and who yelled at me when I said FTC had a plausible case: I told you so.

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5 months

Consumers: I don’t like that you censor me on your platform. Big Tech: Then build your own! …. Big Tech: We want to buy this company. Antitrust enforcers: Build your own. Big Tech: 😭🤬😱

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Mark Meador

10 months

Google controls what you see on the internet, and now it wants to control what you see about the antitrust case against it.

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Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen

10 months

Judge Mehta ordered DOJ to remove the exhibits they had posted about the case on the Justice Department's website. He said he will make a ruling in the morning on whether the public can continue to gain access to exhibits.

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Mark Meador

9 months

The fact that it would be difficult to unseat an entrenched monopoly is evidence of the monopoly itself, not a defense. This is a recurring theme, unfortunately. Google wants to treat barriers to entry of its own making as evidence of consumer preference.

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Google Judge: 'Not Clear' Market Shares Shift With Defaults - Law360

The D.C. federal judge weighing the fate of the contracts that make Google the default search engine on every iPhone, Mac, Android device and Firefox browser pushed back Monday on U.S. Department of...

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Mark Meador

7 months

The $630 million that will go to consumers works out to 2% of what Google makes from Android in a single year.

@WSJ

The Wall Street Journal

7 months

Breaking: Google agreed to pay $700 million and make changes to its app store, settling one of several antitrust challenges to the company

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Mark Meador

1 year

Amusing to see people suggesting that the 2010 merger guidelines, which cite precisely 0 legal or economic authorities, were grounded in the law and economics, but that 2023 merger guidelines are trying to change the law to fit the agencies’ wishes because they…cite to case law.

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Mark Meador

3 months

Big Tech censorship is a bipartisan issue.

@econliberties

American Economic Liberties Project

3 months

🚨NEW: Apple didn't allow @jonstewart to interview @linakhanFTC or discuss certain topics when his show was on AppleTV+ A clear example of concerns @JusticeATR highlighted in its antitrust suit. Apple can use its power to exercise control over content it doesn't approve of.

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1 year

Farewell, old friend.

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In an exclusive interview with The American Conservative, Florida’s Ron DeSantis explains his war with Disney for the soul and sovereignty of America.

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10 months

You don't pay billions of dollars to be the default search engine if it's super easy to switch and everyone already thinks you're the best option.

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10 months

Every now and then the internet redeems itself a little.

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stepfanie

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CASUAL PRESIDENTS 🤍 A series inspired by @JohnFetterman

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2 months

The mindset that “Juries are bad at deciding technical cases” is a perfect encapsulation of such much of what is wrong with our antitrust enforcement regime.

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Herbert hovenkamp

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Google's move is smart, and calculated to produce a better outcome. Juries are bad at deciding technical cases, and further they do not have the authority to order a breakup. The "law" (damages) and "equity" parts of the case are best separated; this motion facilitates that.

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Mark Meador

4 months

Often forgotten: All four cases (Google search and ad tech, Facebook/Instagram, Amazon) began as investigations started by the Trump Administration.

@axios

Axios

4 months

The Justice Department's major new case against Apple completes the Biden administration's quartet of antitrust lawsuits aimed at the companies that have defined the tech industry's last 20 years.

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1 year

Personal update: After 3 years on the hill, I’m returning to private practice! I’ve teamed up with my friend, Brandon Keessin, to form @KressinMeador . We’re a boutique antitrust firm advising clients on complex competition matters, from compliance and litigation to advocacy.

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1 year

Of all the things to dunk on this FTC for, complaining about it emphasizing the actual words from its authorizing statute is an odd choice.

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NetChoice

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The FTC is no longer making consumers a priority.

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7 months

Hey @ComfortablySmug : we already have a monument to boomers. It’s called the Debt Clock. @RuthlessPodcast @MichaelDuncan

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Mark Meador

9 months

Nothing to see here, just A Great American Tech Company™️ paying billions of dollars for something it insists doesn’t matter and could get for free anyway. I’m sure it has nothing to do with foreclosing market access to competitors.

@leah_nylen

Leah AntiTrustButVer1fy Nylen

9 months

On Day 29, we got the figure. In 2021, Google paid $26.3 billion to ensure its search engine was the default on web browsers and mobile phones.

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7 months

A thought on jury trials in antitrust cases: If antitrust law is really about consumer welfare, doesn't it make sense to hear straight from consumers themselves what they think about the market? 1/2

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Mark Meador

10 months

This part cracks me up. Is it “backward-looking” when we arrest and convict murderers? I guess we should let the murderers go and just worry about the next crime 🤔

@lutherlowe

Luther Lowe

10 months

Finally, Google claims this case is "backward-looking." That's absurd. Law enforcement must bring evidence of past behavior to prosecute. That's literally how law enforcement works: Google violated the law and the company is *finally* being prosecuted. 🚓 (9/9)

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Mark Meador

9 months

Suggesting Shopify to customers as an alternative to Amazon is like sending a car buyer to AutoZone instead of a dealer.

@RSI

R Street Institute

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"The FTC's market definition also entirely disregards any online store that has a broad range of offerings but adopts a different model for appealing to customers, such as Shopify, or the recently ascendant discount sellers Temu and Shein." @JGWithrow

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Mark Meador

7 months

The “conservative” Big Tech lobbying group is now defending patent infringement. 🙃

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Carl Szabo

7 months

“Apple is now banned from selling its latest Apple Watches in the US” via @Verge “Apple can no longer sell the Watch Series 9 and Watch Ultra 2 in the US after President Joe Biden’s administration declined to veto the ban today.” @emroth08 with the story - President Biden's

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Mark Meador

10 months

Apple low key knifing Google here. If users can’t understand search, how is it easy to switch default search engines?

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Jason Kint

10 months

Cue testified (paraphrasing) that ATT (“ask not to be tracked”) is something ok in the user prompts as the average user understands “tracking” so can be asked up top. But they wouldn’t understand search choice. This is laughable to me. /6

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2 months

Not when the “great company” is an entrenched monopolist that can erect barriers to entry, raise rivals costs, and buy up nascent threats.

@TheEconomist

The Economist

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New technologies can cause great companies to fail. Will Alphabet or Apple fall victim to “The Innovator’s Dilemma”? 👇

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Mark Meador

9 months

A lot of talk about Big Tech focuses on antitrust, and rightly so. But I think some of the most interesting legal developments in this space will happen in the consumer protection arena.

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Jason Miyares

@JasonMiyaresVA

9 months

I’m suing social media giant Meta for fueling a youth mental health crisis in America. Meta deliberately prioritized profits over the safety of our children, refusing to take corrective action. Meta knew. Meta ignored it. Meta will be held accountable.

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Mark Meador

1 year

Just went to Walmart to shop for my family of 8, and there was not a single cashier on duty. Self checkout only for hundreds of dollars of groceries. Almost makes you want to reconsider the merits of Robinson-Patman…

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Mark Meador

4 months

Conservatives who think that only the government can threaten liberty are useless.

@profthomlambert

Thom Lambert

@profthomlambert

4 months

Conservatives who blur the govt/private sector distinction because they don’t like Big Tech are short-sighted fools.

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Mark Meador

10 months

Google: People use Google because they want to. We compete on the merits. Also Google: We need to pay tens of billions of dollars to make it harder for people to use other search engines. #USvGoogle

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Mark Meador

7 months

It's gonna be funny when the business community that hates Lina Khan ends up with a single director FTC run by ... Lina Khan. And with no Republican minority commissioners providing oversight.

@matthewstoller

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

7 months

What is Facebook’s response to the ugly stories on how it tracks and manipulates children? To apologize? To obey the Federal Trade Commission’s order to stop? Nope. Zuckerberg just asked a court to declare the FTC unconstitutional.

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Mark Meador

2 months

Live Nation’s response to DOJ’s suit to undo its acquisition of Ticketmaster is one of the most unhinged PR screeds I’ve ever seen. From claiming it is constrained by Big Tech to blaming “artist popularity” for its exclusionary conduct and monopoly rents, it is divorced from

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Mark Meador

7 months

Such a loss by FTC that the parties …. decided to abandon the merger. 🤔

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@CarlSzabo

Carl Szabo

7 months

Biden's FTC loses AGAIN in court! But the process itself is the punishment. Let's chalk up another loss for FTC Chair Lina Khan. How many is that now? We've lost count. Several months ago, activist Chair Khan convinced her colleagues to block the Illumina-Grail acquisition—a

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Mark Meador

1 year

The District Court decision denying FTC a PI to block Microsoft/Activison cited Brown Shoe at least 6 times. Yet it was celebrated by the same people now chicken littleing over Brown Shoe being cited in the new guidelines. Spare me.

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Mark Meador

9 months

Thrilled to announce that I've joined @Heritage as a Visiting Fellow in their Tech Policy Center

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Heritage Welcomes Antitrust Expert Mark Meador as Visiting Fellow | The Heritage Foundation

WASHINGTON—The Heritage Foundation’s Tech Policy Center today announced the addition of distinguished attorney Mark Meador as a visiting fellow for antitrust and competition policy.

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Mark Meador

8 months

Again, if Apple et al would choose Google anyway because it’s the best, what’s the $26 billion for?

@BigTechOnTrial

Big Tech on Trial

@BigTechOnTrial

8 months

So Murphy's argument is that companies like Apple choose Google Search as their default search engine because it's simply a better search engine. But to the extent it's a better search engine, DOJ has argued that's because of the scale it acquires through default agreements. /3

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Mark Meador

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This is no different than big incumbents demanding their smaller competitors be heavily regulated so the incumbent doesn’t have to worry about needing to actually produce something its customers want.

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Corey A. DeAngelis, school choice evangelist

@DeAngelisCorey

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BREAKING: "Scientific American" calls for federal homeschooling regulations. Hell no.

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Mark Meador

10 months

Google knew two things: 1) it could win search users even without being the default; but 2) if it bought up the default status it would starve its competition of a chance to get off the ground. #USvGoogle

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Mark Meador

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Never trust someone who won’t give you a straight answer to the question of whether children should have access to pornography.

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Mark Meador

2 months

Recent reporting indicates DOJ could soon file an antitrust suit against Live Nation Ticketmaster, a critical step in holding it accountable for anticompetitive business practices. 🧵

@FanFairness

Fan Fairness Coalition

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BIG news from this week: the @TheJusticeDept is preparing to file an antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation-Ticketmaster! This is an important step in restoring competition and protecting fans. Read our full statement to learn more.

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Mark Meador

5 months

Pass the AMERICA Act.

@IngrahamAngle

Laura Ingraham

5 months

We need to break up Google’s online advertisement monopoly: Mike Davis

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Mark Meador

1 year

The JPML has remanded Texas v. Google back to Texas, citing the State Antitrust Enforcement Venue Act that was included in last year's appropriations bill! Huge win for @SenMikeLee @SenAmyKlobuchar @RepKenBuck and @RepCicilline !

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Mark Meador

1 month

This may be my philosophy major bias, but I don’t trust technologists and engineers to define “human flourishing” for all of society. Read Aristotle. Go to church.

@abundanceinst

Abundance Institute

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As a society, we have a choice. Will we encourage advancements to grow and unlock human flourishing, or will we freeze these technologies in stagnancy and let fear win? The stakes can’t be any higher.

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Mark Meador

23 days

Thrilled to see FTC Commissioner Ferguson voicing the growing view on the right that concentrated private power can in fact be a threat to liberty.

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Open Minds with Andrew Ferguson and James Burnham

In this episode of Open Minds, Andrew Ferguson discusses his career, from judicial clerkships to the Hill to state government, and how the mentors and friend...

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Mark Meador

4 months

The TikTok bill doesn't ban speech, it bans China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea from controlling a platform used for speech in America. People describing it otherwise either haven't read the bill or aren't acting in good faith.

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Mark Meador

2 months

Antitrust exemptions are bad.

@thehill

The Hill

2 months

Republicans unveil legislation protecting NCAA, conferences from legal challenges

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Mark Meador

1 year

@DanWall55 I’m glad we agree that the 2010 guidelines were an advocacy document.

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Mark Meador

7 months

In antitrust, like so many other areas of public life recently, we've tried the "trust the experts" approach and it's gone horribly wrong. If we really believe this is about protecting consumers and ensuring markets reflect their choices, we should trust their judgment. 2/2

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Mark Meador

1 year

This view never gets old.

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Mark Meador

10 months

If you think a government win in this case would “upend antitrust law,” you probably don’t know much about antitrust law.

@pat_hedger

Patrick Hedger

10 months

We’re talking about upending antitrust law & blowing up popular services over things measured in seconds & slight hand movements. It’s an exponentially greater burden to move between stores than to move between/within websites. Yet, here we are with this shameless rent seeking.

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Mark Meador

29 days

I told y'all things were changing on the right.

@matthewstoller

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

29 days

Ferguson goes on a long discussion of Bork's interpretation of antitrust law, and offers a very gentle pushback suggesting that not everything is an originalist framework. Says just price effects were not Congressional intent with the Sherman Act.

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2 months

Big Tech will love this. "Give us your content for free (so we can use it to compete against you), or we'll blame you when our LLM sucks."

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Google's lawyer responded that Google would need to do this for a significant period of time in a way that people notice, and still not see substitution, in order to infer monopoly power. I don't think that experiment plays out the way Google thinks it does...

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Mark Meador

2 months

Judge Mehta wisely observing that Google's ability to degrade search quality without suffering any appreciable loss of users is evidence of monopoly power, even if unexercised. #USvGoogle

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Mark Meador

4 months

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

@smod4real

Sweet Meteor O'Death

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1 year

I cannot understate how incredibly dangerous it is to constantly describe every court decision in terms of picking sides in a political fight, rather than interpreting the law.

@matthewstoller

Matt Stoller

@matthewstoller

1 year

Thomas, Kagan, Gorsuch, Kagan, and Sotomayor provided the 5 votes to block the power of big agribusiness. It's pretty disturbing that the newest SCOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson ruled with Alito and Kavanaugh in favor of big pork producers.

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Mark Meador

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Google loses its MSJ. Ad tech trial set for September.

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DOJ's Google Ad Tech Suit Bound For Sept. Trial - Law360

A Virginia federal judge said Friday that the U.S. Department of Justice's lawsuit accusing Google of monopolizing technology used to place ads on third-party websites will go to trial, finding too...

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Mark Meador

6 months

An Apple lobbyist actually told a Senate staffer that they would have locked down MacOS the same way they control iOS if they had it to do all over. They tried to walk this back when it came up during a briefing before staffers from multiple GOP offices.

@tomchapin

Thomas H. Chapin IV

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@TimSweeneyEpic @alisabets Next thing you know, Apple will start requiring a cut of every online purchase that is made while using Safari. Are they taking 27% of every purchase that someone makes via the Amazon app?

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Mark Meador

1 year

It never ceases to amaze me how even the supposedly most sophisticated, “elite” M&A firms fail to consider antitrust risk before deal execution. This is malpractice.

@kmedved

Kostya Medvedovsky

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@florianederer Really great stuff here.

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I was incredibly humbled by @SenMikeLee 's very kind words this morning as he bid me farewell ahead of my departure from the Senate at the end of the month.

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Time Change: Executive Business Meeting | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

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Mark Meador

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Admirable intentions, but seven competitors sharing information on which customers they’ll refuse to serve seems…..problematic. CNBC: Largest U.S. sportsbooks join forces to tackle problem gambling

Largest U.S. sportsbooks join forces to tackle problem gambling

FanDuel, DraftKings, BetMGM, Penn Entertainment, Fanatics Betting & Gaming, Hard Rock Digital and bet365 will form the Responsible Online Gaming Association.

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Mark Meador

1 year

This leaves out more than it reveals, trust me.

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Opinion | Here’s the inside story of how Congress failed to rein in Big Tech

How broken is Congress? Its failure to rein in Big Tech is a portrait of lawmakers' fear and dysfunction.

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Mark Meador

7 months

This was an incredibly bipartisan issue (and lively Subcommittee hearing) when I was on the hill, and looks to remain to so.

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Jo Ling Kent

7 months

Senator @amyklobuchar + @SenMikeLee + @RepJerryNadler @RepKenBuck sent this to DOJ regarding ongoing fight betwn Beeper Mini vs Apple “to investigate whether this potentially anticompetitive conduct by Apple violated antitrust laws.” I’ll have the full story on @CBSMornings tmrw

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Mark Meador

4 months

Pass the Open App Markets Act.

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Eric Migicovsky

4 months

Getting closer to real sideloading! Still tons of problems (€0.50 fee, still need to be compliant with Apple BS rules, etc), but it's clear that the EU is chipping away at the ridiculous malicious DMA compliance that Apple announced in Jan.

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Mark Meador

10 months

Is it too much to ask for a world in which corporate shills don’t treat “consumer welfare” like some shamanic incantation that wards off any antitrust scrutiny?

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Mark Meador

16 days

Oh man, can you imagine a world where businesses collect vast amounts of data on all their users?!?!

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NetChoice

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If passed, KOSA’s implicit requirements would make businesses to collect vast amounts of data on all users—adults and children alike. Congress should say NO to KOSA.

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Mark Meador

4 months

I'd be more willing to entertain the idea of "national champions" if all of our putative national champions weren't falling over themselves to do the bidding of the Chinese Communist Party.

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Mark Meador

11 months

Looking forward to participating in the first @JusticeATR - @FTC workshop on the proposed 2023 Merger Guidelines!

Public Workshops on the 2023 Draft Merger Guidelines

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Mark Meador

1 year

This is bad faith analysis. What Dan describes as “near dispositive” in the new guidelines is actually the same kind of presumption in Baker Hughes that he attempts to contrast it with.

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Dan Wall

1 year

A thread on the new Merger Guidelines, responding to @matthewstoller , @sandeepvaheesan , @musharbash_b and others. Judge for yourself whether this is because I spent the better part of 42 years representing corporations, before retiring.

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Mark Meador

9 months

After a break came the stunning revelation that Pichai had at times labeled emails as “privileged” and copied Google CLO Kent Walker when the email was not actually about legal advice and he only wanted to “keep it confidential.”

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Mark Meador

5 months

Just remember: The people telling you that KOSA requires tech platforms to engage in censorship are the same people who said you were crazy to think tech platforms were censoring conservatives. And Big Tech paid them to say it both times.

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Mark Meador

3 months

We know Meta/Facebook entered into an agreement with Google that saw Meta get out of the ad tech game, now it is accused of having done the same with Netflix and video streaming.

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Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy: Lawsuit

Facebook Watch, Netflix were allegedly bigger competitors than they let on.

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Mark Meador

3 months

People who view marriage as a contract tend not to have very happy nor long-lasting marriages.

@LawEconCenter

Int'l Ctr Law & Econ

3 months

“[T]here is a simple economic rationale for the contract: noncompetes encourage both parties to invest in the employee-employer relationship, just like marriage contracts encourage spouses to invest in each other.” – @BrianCAlbrecht , @LawEconCenter

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Mark Meador

2 years

Excited to join a panel with @CSWilsonFTC and @News_CRA Vice President Elizabeth Bailey on "Proposals to Change the Antitrust Laws," moderated by @ProfWrightGMU , as part of the @geomasonlrev #25YearsofAntitrust Symposium on Feb. 25th!

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George Mason Law Review 25th Annual Antitrust Symposium

Welcome to the George Mason Law Review's 25th Annual Antitrust Symposium!

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Mark Meador

4 months

Having a product consumers like and shielding it from competition through exclusionary conduct are not mutually exclusive. That’s the entire premise of monopoly maintenance.

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I'm old enough to remember when streaming services were supposed to be consumer-friendly alternatives to cable bundles.

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Mark Meador

10 months

DOJ: Google can't pay billions of dollars to be the exclusive default search engine. Google:

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Mark Meador

2 months

Set aside the plagiarism question, the bigger problem with AI in education is that using AI *is not critical thinking.* This isn’t learning, and teachers who encourage it are failing their students. Do we really want a generation of lemmings who need tech cos to think for them?

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Mark Meador

10 months

Big Tech’s trade group bragging about protecting its unfettered access to your children.

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NetChoice

11 months

DISTRICT COURT HALTS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ARKANSAS LAW IN NETCHOICE V. GRIFFIN CONTACT: Krista Chavez, press @netchoice .org FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.—Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas-Fayetteville Division halted Arkansas’ unconstitutional social media age

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Mark Meador

4 months

Struggling to think of something more patently anti-democratic than calling on courts to ignore the text of carefully written statutes because you're big mad that they're carefully written to accomplish policy goals you don't like.

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Mark Meador

2 months

TPA should really stay in its lane and not embarrass itself by misunderstanding how antitrust law works. Ticketmaster fees are not a question of demand from fans to see shows; they are a product/evidence of monopoly power. And fan demand certainly does nothing to explain or

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🎶Department of Justice Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster and Live Nation Strikes the Wrong Note🎶 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and 30 states announced a long-awaited antitrust suit against Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation. The

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Mark Meador

2 years

No view on the merits, but tactically speaking if you’re trying to stop a deal based on a potential competition theory, it’s probably best not to describe the industry as “characterized by a high degree of growth and innovation” in your press release.

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FTC Seeks to Block Virtual Reality Giant Meta’s Acquisition of Popular App Creator Within

The Federal Trade Commission is seeking to block virtual reality giant Meta and its controlling shareholder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg from acquiring Within Unlimited an

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Mark Meador

6 months

Judge Young (D.Mass.) has blocked JetBlue's acquisition of Spirit Airlines.

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Mark Meador

5 months

But I was told that AI was poised to radically disrupt the search market?

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Megan Gray

5 months

new AI search engine Perplexity tries to find acquirer cuz Google Search so dominant (per paywall article)

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Mark Meador

4 months

You don’t win elections by understanding your opponent, you win them by understanding voters.

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Josh Kraushaar

4 months

Haley ran a near perfect race. She just couldn’t figure out Trump. - POLITICO

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Mark Meador

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Live look at the debate

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