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A New Antitrust Doctrine
Tl;dr: Sorry but you’re not getting off that easily with this post. There are different schools of antitrust thought. Each has principles and priorities it seeks to translate into an actionable and consistent framework for enforcement and policymaking. But the inevitably messy collision of intellectual frameworks with the real world makes antitrust a highly subjective…
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The DOJ Play at Home Game
While last year’s Platformonomics Holiday Gift Guide brought seasonal joy to vast swathes of humanity, this year’s holiday recommendation has a very specific audience: Googlers. To my friends at Google: You did a great job over the years keeping your email boring and mostly devoid of colorful yet easily cherrypicked soundbites. But your antitrust reckoning…
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Press Releases We’d Like to See: Facebook Announces Political Advertising Blackout for 2020 US Presidential Election
Press Releases We’d Like to See: Facebook Announces Political Advertising Blackout for 2020 US Presidential Election MENLO PARK, Calif. – September 9, 2019 – Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today announced the company will not accept political advertising in the United States between February 17, 2020 (President’s Day) and November 3, 2020 (Election Day). The moratorium on advertising for political candidates…