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#AntiTrust

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose

AFP: Fortnite developer claims win against Apple and Google. “An Australian court has found Apple and Google misused their market power in a dispute with the maker of wildly popular video game Fortnite.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/afp-fortnite-developer-claims-win-against-apple-and-google/

ResearchBuzz: Firehose | Individual posts from ResearchBuzz · AFP: Fortnite developer claims win against Apple and Google | ResearchBuzz: Firehose
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#AntiTrust#apple#australia
eicker.news ᳇ tech news

#Perplexity offered to buy #Google’s #Chrome #browser for $34.5B. The offer, likely a #marketingstunt, aims to challenge Google’s #websearch #dominance and signal to the judge in the #antitrust case against Google that there is an interested buyer. Its value to Google is in avoiding paying other companies for default placement, making it unlikely Google will sell. spyglass.org/i-offer-to-buy-ju #tech #media #news

Spyglass · Perplexity's Perplexing and Positively PR Offer to Buy ChromeWhy not offer a quadrillion dollars?
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Nonilex

Without a hint of irony, #Musk accuses #Apple of #antitrust violation, says #xAI will take #legal action

#ElonMusk has accused Apple of engaging in antitrust violations by allegedly making it impossible for any #ArtificialIntelligence company other than #OpenAI to reach the No. 1 spot in its App Store rankings, calling it an "unequivocal antitrust violation."

#law #SpaceX #Starlink #satellites [talk about antitrust violations]
reuters.com/sustainability/boa

Thomas

#Doctorow RT @josemurilo: "Suppressing popular preferences in democracies isn't easy. It requires absolute unity of the ruling classes. Whenever a crack appears in capital's unity, good policies gush out of it. That's what's happened with #antitrust this decade, where the divisions between #billionaire rentiers & the #millionaire capitalists who want to escape the 30% app tax has allowed a antitrust enforcement to sweep the world, to the detriment of both."

pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the

Ecologia Digital

"Suppressing popular preferences in democracies isn't easy. It requires absolute unity of the ruling classes. Whenever a crack appears in capital's unity, good policies gush out of it. That's what's happened with #antitrust this decade, where the divisions between #billionaire rentiers like Apple/Google & the #millionaire capitalists who want to escape their 30% app tax has allowed a rush of effective antitrust enforcement to sweep the world, to the detriment of both."

pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the

Miguel Afonso Caetano

"So on the one hand, this is all pretty dismal. It also makes the trend towards electing anti-democratic politicians who want to abolish elections a lot easier to understand: if you (correctly) believe you live in a world where politicians don't care about you, then why not vote for a strongman who'll punish your enemies and maybe leave you with a few more crumbs?

But on the other hand, this is very exciting, because it shows us what a truly democratic world would look like (and just how different that world would be from the billionaire astroturf-dominated social media world)! If the popular will can achieve primacy, we would live in a veritable paradise!

It also explains how candidates like Zohran Mamdani were able to clobber the political establishment simply by a) telling people that he would do popular things; and b) convincing them that he meant it.

Suppressing popular preferences in (nominal) democracies isn't easy. It requires absolute unity of the ruling classes. Whenever the faintest crack appears in capital's unity, good policies gush out of it. That's what's happened with antitrust this decade, where the divisions between billionaire rentiers like Apple/Google and the millionaire capitalists who want to escape their 30% app tax has allowed a rush of effective antitrust enforcement to sweep the world, to the detriment of both:"

pluralistic.net/2025/08/07/the

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Good ideas are popular (07 Aug 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
#Politics#USA#Kleptocracy
David August ❌👑

Almost 10 years ago, I wrote an article about consolidation in movies, and the vertical integration perils of movie studios owning the movie distribution channels.

4 years ago, I republished it, because the trend continued.

Now, the trend keeps going. Not great for the industry or the audience.

stuff.davidaugust.com/whats-ol

David August · What’s Old Is New Again: Antitrustwill consolidation change TV and film streaming
#movies#tv#film
Kim Perales

"How a Beltway Brain Trust Sells #Oligarchy to Liberals.

Abundance co-author Derek Thompson used slimy tactics🚨to protect wealth & power in America. He used #antitrust as a catch-all for ppl concerned about oligarchy & conc power, ref to the critics he's responding to as the “antitrust left/critics/housing folks.”

The neoliberal faction won’t go down easy or fight fair. They're terrified by Lina Khan's ideas, mayoral cand Mamdani winning young vot...
#Democrats #USPol thebignewsletter.com/p/an-abun

Continued thread
Ben Waber

First was "The Curse of Bigness" by Tim Wu. Wu reviews the history of antitrust in the US and its fundamental concern with excessive corporate power, then shows how the Chicago school worked to systematically subvert and dismantle that motivation. He then argues for an approach that in some ways brings antitrust back to those original goals. Highly recommend

Full review: bookwyrm.social/user/bwaber/re (2/3) #law #antitrust #history

bookwyrm.socialBen Waber's review of The Curse of Bigness - BookWyrmSocial Reading and Reviewing
Kim Perales

Dem senators incl Elizabeth Warren sent a letter to the CEOs of Google/YouTube division -asking if Google has discussed settling Trump’s censorship lawsuit against YouTube “as a way🚨to garner more favorable treatment from the admin.” They point to the co’s litigation battles, incl ongoing #antitrust lawsuits.

“We're concerned about the possibility that Google could settle -in a #QuidProQuo arrng to avoid full accountability for violating fed competit..."
#Fascism #USPol
cnbc.com/2025/08/07/google-tru

CNBCDemocrats question Google's Trump talks over censorship suit and possible 'quid-pro-quo' dealA group of Democratic senators wrote a letter to Google expressing concern over a possible settlement between the company and President Trump.
James House-Lantto (He/Him)

theverge.com/news/717440/googl

Google has 14 days to make major changes to its Google Play app store and business practices following its loss in the Epic antitrust lawsuit. These changes include stopping the forced use of Google Play Billing, allowing app developers to direct users to other platforms, and limiting perks for preinstalled apps.

An image of Google’s logo on a shield with arrows flying by
The Verge · Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filingBy Sean Hollister
#google#epicgames#Antitrust
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 👉 "Here's why you're getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don't have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don't compete. It also means that they can handily capture their regulators, because they can easily agree on a set of policy priorities and use the billions they've amassed by not competing to capture their regulators. They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers, mass-firing them and terrorizing them out of any Tron-inspired conceits about "fighting for the user." Finally, they can use IP law to shut down anyone who makes technology that disenshittifies their offerings.

You can take care to avoid enshittification, you can even make a fetish out of it, but without addressing these systemic failings, your individual actions will only get you so far. Sure, use privacy-enhancing tools like Signal to communicate with other people, but if the only way to get your kid to their little league game is to join the carpool group on Facebook, you're going to hemorrhage data about everything you do to Meta.

Likewise, you can use privacy-preserving adblockers in your browser, but the instant you've got to do business with a monopoly that requires you to use their app, you will be totally helpless before them, because anti-circumvention law felonizes modifying an app so it preserves your privacy.
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If you turn your personal campaign to live an enshittification-free life into a set of rigid practices that isolate you from your community, you will be miserable – and you will undermine your ability to address the systemic roots of enshittification.

That's because systemic problems have systemic solutions. They are addressed through mass movements..."

pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/uns

#Enshittification#Monopolies#Oligopolies
SPQR

Everyone concerned about liberal democracy, the rule of law, the rise of crony-capitalism and its handmaiden authoritarianism, and what is now the inevitable collapse of the American hegemony, must read this. Stoller is one of the few people who has a grasp of how markets actually work and how both the powerful and corrupt governments, deform it to our collective detriment.
#markets #economics #regulation #antitrust #corruption #USpolitics #collapse thebignewsletter.com/p/into-th

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