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#antitrust

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knoppix

Mozilla's CFO warns that Firefox's survival is at risk if the DOJ's proposals to limit Google's search monopoly are implemented.

With 85% of its revenue from Google, significant cuts could threaten its viability.

I believe the company must reassess its leadership and business model to stay relevant.

@mozilla

theverge.com/news/660548/firef

An image of the Firefox logo.
The Verge · Firefox could be doomed without Google search deal, says executiveBy Lauren Feiner
#Technology#TechNews#Tech
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Brad Linder

Apple has updated App Store guidelines that makes it clear that developers can include links, buttons, and calls to action directing users in the US to external forms of payment. This comes in response to a US court ruling that Apple plans to appeal. 9to5mac.com/2025/05/01/apple-a #Apple #AppStore #Antitrust

9to5Mac · Apple updates App Store Guidelines to allow links to external payments - 9to5MacApple has officially updated the App Store Guidelines to comply with yesterday’s injunction handed down in its legal case with...
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Easily Pleased

…countries passed IP laws to protect US tech interests in exchange for tariff-free access to US markets. …[now we have] a generational opportunity to pass laws that enable local technologists to jailbreak US tech exports and liberate their people from the extractive practices of Big Tech forever.

pluralistic.net/2025/05/01/its

#Cory_doctorow #unexpectedupside

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order (01 May 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
#antitrust#freetrade
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Wietze Brandsma 🏴‍☠️

Antitrust is the most important regulation of all, because it's the regulation that keeps companies from getting so large and powerful that they can ignore all the other regulations pluralistic.net/2025/04/29/che
Without antitrust, companies become too big to fail, then too big to jail, then too big to care. #Antitrust

pluralistic.netPluralistic: Mike Lee and Jim Jordan want to kill the law that bans companies from cheating you (29 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Miguel Afonso Caetano

"News just broke that House Republican Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan, who has always disliked antitrust law, is proposing to use the budget process to roll back a key law in this area. The specific provision at issue is Section 5 of the FTC Act, which prohibits “unfair methods of competition.” On Wednesday, he’s holding a committee hearing to roll back this authority through a strange legislative maneuver. I’m doing a bit of a quick legal read, but this is a rushed process, so I want to get it out now.

I believe this change could be significant. Recently, Section 5 was used to litigate against pharmacy benefit managers. It’s in the antitrust case against Amazon, another case against Corteva/Syngenta over exclusive dealing in seeds and chemicals, and it was the authority used to ban non-compete agreements. These cases, as well as every consent decree ever reached under Section 5, are now at risk.

To understand why, we have to start by looking at this unusual law. Section 5 is unique to the Federal Trade Commission, neither the Antitrust Division nor private litigants have jurisdiction to use it. It encompasses the Sherman Act, but it can also go beyond it. It’s intended to be broad-ranging but relatively weak, to allow an expert body - aka the FTC - to reach to new business practices."

thebignewsletter.com/p/house-g

BIG by Matt Stoller · House GOP Proposes Eliminating Key Antitrust LawBy Matt Stoller
#USA#Trump#GOP
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jbz

Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal court | @AxiosNews

｢ Meta could have chosen to compete with then-upstart photo sharing app Instagram in 2012, a senior FTC official said on a call with reporters ahead of the trial, but instead it bought it, and did the same with WhatsApp ｣

axios.com/pro/tech-policy/2025

Mark Zuckerberg taking an oath in Congress with a black backdrop
Axios · Meta antitrust trial kicks off in federal courtBy Ashley Gold
#meta#antitrust#regulations
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