Ladies and gentlepersons, I give you Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Meta (nee Facebook), an accused monopolist who *cannot keep his big dumb fucking mouth shut*. by @pluralistic
#Meta #Facebook #antitrust #tuperdstonsangfroid
https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/
"In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones.
This is the first time that Japan has issued such an order against any of the major U.S. technology companies referred to collectively as GAFAM — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.
“By binding smartphone manufacturers and telecommunication carriers, Google has made it difficult for other competing search engine applications to be used on Android phones,” Saiko Nakajima, a senior investigator for digital platform operators at the commission, said.
“Google's conduct in this case has created a risk of impeding fair competition concerning transactions — thus, we have determined that this is an act in violation of the Antimonopoly Act,” she added."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/16/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/
@Vittoria@mastodon.socialGoogle has been branded an abusive monopolist by a federal judge for the second time in less than a year, this time for illegally exploiting some of its online marketing technology to boost the profits fueling an internet empire currently worth $1.8 trillion. FRANCE 24's Wassim Cornet reports from Los Angeles.
#Google #advertising #antitrust #technology #monopoly
That's really bad:
"Less than two weeks before the start of a #landmark #antitrust trial against tech giant #Meta, the growing relationship between President Donald #Trump and Meta CEO Mark #Zuckerberg is stoking fears in Washington that the White House could pull the plug on the whole case."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/06/washington-worries-trump-could-bail-out-zuckerberg-00273712
The European Union is ordering Apple to open up some of its core technologies to make it easier for competitors to develop phones, headsets, and other accessories that are more interoperable with iPhones and iPads. #EuropeanUnion #Antitrust #DMA #Apple https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_816
@nemobis@mamot.fr@protonprivacy Gail Slater has already started dismantling DoJ #antitrust efforts.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/doj-antitrust-head-targets-pricey-consultants-amid-doge-cost-cutting-2025-03-16/
Are you satisfied yet, Andy?
I need a support group for people as pissed off as I am at corporations like Apple for keeping as many people as they do from making the most of modern computing while extracting as much as possible from those people.
The internet was supposed to set us free, but as Cory Doctorow reveals, it’s been hijacked by monopolies that lock us in, strip us down, and sell us back to ourselves… though the fight isn’t over yet.
"The Internet is Crack" Podcast.
Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
https://youtu.be/0N3q-qHVdg8
@pluralistic #monopoly #bigtech #podcast #theinternetiscrack #antitrust #tech #technology #information
We had a great time talking with Cory Doctorow
Watch or listen to the full episode wherever your podcast is.
@pluralistic
#picksandshovels #antitrust #podcast #copyright
The US post- #competition " #freemarket ":
"As #cartels and #monopolies took over our economy, most government regulators were neutered and captured."
"This is what changed: the collapse of market, government, and labor constraints, and IP law's criminalization of disenshittifying, interoperable add-ons."
-- @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/#praxis
@1br0wn@eupolicy.socialKaeseburg: #DMA #DSA #antitrust are also about protecting EU democracy and sovereignty 
#ThePerfectStorm
Sometimes it seems that there is no situation so bad that unbridled capitalism can't make worse...
https://eupolicy.social/@Akshay/113894387250277935
Akshay@eupolicy.social - Eyebrow raising article on #LaFires :
Why were so many firetrucks in California old and out of order?
Private equity consolidated the firetruck market, increased scarcity, and jacked up prices.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll
Eyebrow raising article on #LaFires :
Why were so many firetrucks in California old and out of order?
Private equity consolidated the firetruck market, increased scarcity, and jacked up prices.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll
My story in today's Washington Post has a whistleblower saying Amazon's 2024 deal for a startup's AI technology in warehouse robots cost $400 million and should have been blocked on antitrust grounds. Free without signup here: https://archive.ph/a5FLn Also: the startup's CEO was recorded.
#antitrust #AI
You are here.
Again.
#capitalism
#UnitedStates
#antitrust
If you're concerned about the outsized power of Digital platforms, you'll want to follow the work of #privacyinternational which produces a #podcast that they host on their own #peertube instance, and have been for quite some time:)
This means you can follow them directly from #mastodon here:
and their podcast here:
@privacyint@media.privacyinternational.org
https://media.privacyinternational.org/videos/watch/be92f48f-228d-42cf-b214-9ad238972f87
#privacy #surveillance #mergers #gafam #meta #fb #monopoly #corporatecapture #netneutrality @pluralistic #antitrust
@amassaro@mastodon.unoÈ comparso oggi un interessante (e condivisibile) appello di alcuni ex-leader dell'Unione Europa che, in soldoni, chiede di spezzare il monopolio tecnologico di Google per garantire il corretto funzionamento della nostra democrazia.
E gli italiani? Assenti all'appello: Enrico Letta, Romano Prodi, Mario Monti. Tutti muti perché si può parlare di tutto ma non di diritti digitali nel Belpaese.
Un silenzio che dice molto sulla nostra cultura politica. 
#Google #Democrazia #antitrust #europa
Biden has done much more than Trump re antitrust:
"(Biden FTC Chair) Khan’s regulatory philosophy is clear ... there must be checks on the monopolistic tendencies of tech behemoths.”
"The sharp transition in the regulatory environment has been facilitated by Biden in other ways besides appointing Khan. The president has signed an executive order exhorting federal agencies to go after anti-competitive corporations ..."
https://medium.com/jecnyc/a-new-era-of-antitrust-the-impacts-of-2024-cases-on-big-tech-45265db43732
Oooh surprise! 
"#Zuckerberg urges #Trump to stop the #EU from fining US tech companies"
