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 wayto 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
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/07/google-trump-settlement-democrats.html

What’s the opposite of Antitrust enforcement? Because “don’t you dare make the companies compete” is basically that.

#kakistocracy #corruption #antitrust

“Trump admin warns states: Don’t try to lower broadband prices”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/trump-admin-warns-states-dont-try-to-lower-broadband-prices/

Alphabet's beautiful child Google has 14 Days to break up Android

#Google #Alphabet #antitrust #Epic lawsuit #14days

https://www.theverge.com/news/717440/google-epic-open-play-store-emergency-stay

Google has just two weeks to begin cracking open Android, it admits in emergency filing https://www.theverge.com/news/717440/google-epic-open-play-store-emergency-stay #Antitrust #Android #Google #Mobile #Policy #Apps #News #Tech

"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.
(...)
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..."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/unsatisfying-answers/#systemic-problems

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 https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/into-the-abyss-trumps-bizarro-new

App Store-Sicherheit erneut durch Tea-App in Frage gestellt
Die Diskussion um Sicherheit im App Store von Apple erhält durch die Tea-App neuen Auftrieb. Zahlreiche Nutzer:innen stellen kritische Fragen zu Apples Kontrolls
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/app-store-sicherheit-erneut-durch-tea-app-in-frage-gestellt/
#iPhone #News #Antitrust #AppStore #AppStoreKontrolle #AppStorePrfung #Apple #Datenschutz #EURegulierung #iOS #Monopol #ScamApps #Sicherheit #TayAppSicherheitslcke #TeaApp

App Store-Sicherheit erneut durch Tea-App in Frage gestellt
Die Diskussion um Sicherheit im App Store von Apple erhält durch die Tea-App neuen Auftrieb. Zahlreiche Nutzer:innen stellen kritische Fragen zu Apples Kontrolls
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/app-store-sicherheit-erneut-durch-tea-app-in-frage-gestellt/
#iPhone #News #Antitrust #AppStore #AppStoreKontrolle #AppStorePrfung #Apple #Datenschutz #EURegulierung #iOS #Monopol #ScamApps #Sicherheit #TayAppSicherheitslcke #TeaApp

App Store-Sicherheit erneut durch Tea-App in Frage gestellt
Die Diskussion um Sicherheit im App Store von Apple erhält durch die Tea-App neuen Auftrieb. Zahlreiche Nutzer:innen stellen kritische Fragen zu Apples Kontrolls
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/app-store-sicherheit-erneut-durch-tea-app-in-frage-gestellt/
#iPhone #News #Antitrust #AppStore #AppStoreKontrolle #AppStorePrfung #Apple #Datenschutz #EURegulierung #iOS #Monopol #ScamApps #Sicherheit #TayAppSicherheitslcke #TeaApp

Appeals Court Upholds Epic Games’ Victory, Rules Google Play Store is an Illegal Monopoly

#Google #EpicGames #Antitrust #AppStore #Android #Law #Alphabet #BigTech

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/07/31/appeals-court-upholds-epic-games-victory-rules-google-play-store-is-an-illegal-monopoly-xcxwbn

"Fighting for an #economy where #SmallBusinesses can thrive was once core to the Dem Party."

#Khan argues: it's time for the party to recover that goal—for its own viability & for the strength of our #economy & #democracy."
-S Mitchell

Many small bus' face common struggles:unfavorable contract terms, unavoidable junk fees, unequal access to credit, complex rules skewed to favor big bus, & markets increasingly dominated by giant gatekeepers.
#Antitrust #Democrats #USPol https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/opinion/lina-khan-mamdani-democrats-small-business.html?unlocked_article_code=1.aE8.5JTj.H4btmIDOGJUV&smid=url-share

Apple slams U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit, saying it "threatens the very principles that set iPhone apart."

@9to5Mac reports "the DOJ’s antitrust lawsuit focuses on five major aspects of the iPhone experience: super apps, cloud streaming games, third-party messaging apps, third-party smartwatches, and third-party digital wallets."

https://flip.it/SmFH_H