Antitrust
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Galloway: Regulators should break up dominant companies across all industries
“So I would argue the way to oxygenate the market would be to go through industry by industry and break up”
Ben Smith: Trump administration is not easing Big Tech antitrust enforcement
“If there's one thing that Trump is not doing, it's laying off the antitrust stuff.”
Albergotti: Tech monopolies like Apple are disrupted by new technology, not antitrust
“This, and I had this thought at the time, like, this is never going to disrupt Apple. What's going to disrupt them is new technology. That's how you know, create sort of creative destruction, disruption, and it's sort of why, like, to bring it to, like, what's…”
Hoffman: Most Antitrust Policy Restrains Future Value Creation
“I tend to think most of the antitrust discussion is, is actually, in fact, actually trying to it was restraining value from the future rather than enabling it.”
Hoffman: Big tech needs channels to collaborate on AI safety
“Anytime that large tech companies talk to each other, you know, it's like, ah, antitrust, and you're like, well, actually, in fact, you want them talking to each other about safety considerations with computation generally, whether it's cybersecurity or whethe…”
Lonsdale: Nonprofit Healthcare Systems Operate as Unchecked Regional Monopolies
“There's also very powerful nonprofit healthcare systems that have bought everyone up in certain areas, pay people insane salaries. They're effectively functioning like for-profit companies. But they're called non-profit, and there's really no antitrust against…”
Ro Khanna: Antitrust Is Not the Single Biggest Issue in Tech
“So when I look at tech, I don't think that antitrust is the single biggest issue with tech in my view. I think there are two bigger issues with tech.”
Ramaswamy: Search result pages composed entirely of ads are legal under antitrust
“By the way, it is perfectly legal under current interpretations of antitrust for the entirety of a search result page to only have ads.
It's perfectly legit.”
Evans: Real tech competition redefines business models, ignoring antitrust market definitions
“The big strategic competition in these markets is not someone who's in your market that fits an antitrust lawyer's definition of your market. The competitive threat is from somebody who changes the whole fucking business into something else, or offers your cus…”