Carl Szabo
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Expert in internet policy and law—AI, Privacy, Section 230, Taxes, Security. Vice President & General Counsel @NetChoice Professor @GeorgeMasonU Law School
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It's our right and responsibility as parents to decide how our children navigate and use the internet - but states are trying to stop us.
This fundamental aspect of parenting is under threat, as various states attempt to usurp this role, intending to make these crucial decisions
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AI could literally save your life
As
@washingtonpost
reports - "researchers at Children’s National have developed a new AI-powered tool for diagnosing rheumatic heart disease long before a patient needs surgery"
This is yet another example of how AI is literally a life-saving
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Failing to Protect Americans - Terrifying report on FTC's collapse under its activist Chair Lina Khan
From the
@JudiciaryGOP
Committee's report:
Leadership Neglect and Ideological Pursuits
Leadership Neglect:
Chair Lina Khan is accused of neglecting the Federal Trade
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BREAKING: California's social media ban blocked!!
Judge just granted NetChoice it's preliminary injunction in NetChoice v Bonta
Case is based on the unconstitutional nature of California's so called "Age-Appropriate Design Code" - AB 2273
Parents are the best deciders of what
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The New York Times got slammed by its own commenters after falsely asserting that "Google Says Switching Away From Its Search Engine Is Easy. It’s Not",
Within minutes the NYT comments section quickly filled up with hundreds of readers debunking the claim.
NYT readers said
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So much for Epic being the hero of gamers…
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said the quiet part out loud - it’s not about gamers it’s about the benjamins.
Epic is denying Fortnite on Steam because Epic wants more money. Steam is one of the most open game stores and the preferred
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Chalk up another loss for FTC Chair Lina Khan...
Despite the efforts of FTC Chair Lina Khan to silence opposition, the Washington Federal Judge just granted our motion for leave to file an amicus brief in FTC v Amazon
It wasn't enough for Khan to put a gag-order on her own
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Some people say they have a tough time cancelling their Amazon Prime Subscription
Well, I tried it, with my own account
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BREAKING: Biden's FTC sues Amazon for showing consumers the best prices and best options
No, I'm not making this up. This is the same rejected approach that the DC AG tried and lost on a couple of months ago.
The FTC also complains that Amazon is:
1. Showing ads in search
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All proposed reforms to Section 230 would make running a social media site legally more risky, and therefore more costly.
Watering down 230 threatens the future of conservative speech online, and would make it harder for Musk's Twitter to succeed.
The biggest threat to
@elonmusk
's vision of a less-moderated Twitter is Section 230 reform.
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@amyklobuchar
Your bill will break Thursday Night Football (it’s on Amazon Prime for no additional cost)
Pretty sure everyone in every sports bar wouldn’t support your pet antitrust projects if you told them that.
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HUGE WIN for AI!!
A Court just issued a SCATHING slapdown against Sarah Silverman's claim that she has a copyright on Meta's AI generated content.
The judge wasn't buying any of Silverman's copyright claims. In his order he said things like:
- “This is nonsensical”
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More evidence of
@JoeBiden
trying to censor speech on the internet
@Jim_Jordan
and
@cathymcmorris
have legislation to make this illegal.
Time to stop government takeover
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Another Biden Appointee fails
As noted by
@WSJEditorials
, antitrust failure Lina Khan has another legal flop.
This time Khan went after a private-equity manager for simply investing.
As the judge pointed out the FTC failed to “cite any authority for the proposition that
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Progressives want to make the economics hurt -- that's the point
They're trying to reshape the economy into their socialist paradise with bills like
@SenAmyKlobuchar
's antitrust legislation
via
@realclearpolicy
@ZacharyLeeLee
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Hope you enjoyed your Subway sandwiches... the government wants to make it more expensive
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is now pushing her acolytes like the FTC's Lina Khan to stop "Big Sandwich" -- the merger of Subway and Jimmy Johns which will actually allow for lower priced
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BREAKING: New Congressional legislation to block free speech online
US House E&C Chair McMorris-Rodgers and Ranking Member Pallone are planning on introducing legislation to remove Section 230 as discussed in their oped
@WSJopinion
This attack on free speech on the internet
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Your bill will break Thursday Night Football (it’s on Amazon Prime for no additional cost)
Pretty sure everyone in every sports bar wouldn’t support your pet antitrust projects if you told them that.
And hey big tech companies, no one in the sports bar liked seeing your negative ads against my bill playing during the Sunday football games. Give it a break. We know you have the money to run them. Congrats…
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BREAKING: US may lose 2-day shipping on Amazon Prime!!
@Bloomberg
reports that FTC plans to file a lawsuit that COULD BREAK PRIME’s 2-Day Shipping!!
The
@FTC
is proving that under
@linakhanFTC
it doesn’t care about helping consumers anymore
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HUGE loss for
@FTC
- just in time for its leaders to appear before Congress next week
Turns our the FTC's kangaroo court is illegal - unanimous
@SCOTUSblog
decision
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NetChoice has just filed a new suit to protect free expression and privacy against a Utah law that would basically require ID for the internet.
The Utah laws are well intentioned-protecting teens online- but does so in a way that decimates privacy.
This law would require EVERY
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RED ALERT: Senators are trying to ram through a bill that would annihilate AI and free-speech online.
The sponsors of this bill know it makes no sense and are trying to rush it through the Senate without a single hearing, a single committee vote, or even a rational analysis.
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BREAKING: US Supreme Court grants cert for social media cases
NetChoice & CCIA v. Paxton AND NetChoice & CCIA v. Moody
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Sticks and stones will break my bones but conservative principles call for smaller government and opposing government compelled speech
Big Tech's biggest shills,
@CarlSzabo
and
@Netchoice
are litigating against Texas' law that would stop unfair social media censorship of conservatives
Now, they are concern trolling Republicans on antitrust enforcement
Two-faced!
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Breaking: Biden FTC coming after BIG HANDBAG 😆
The FTC just announced it will block the merger of
@MichaelKors
and
@Coach
Note that far and away LVMH is the largest - but I guess Lina Khan only attacks American businesses
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The
@FTC
can't just create and throw away rules anymore...the
@SCOTUS
has put an end to that.
Someone should tell
@linakhanFTC
her job is to enforce the law... not create it. If she wants to write laws, she should go back to her job in Congress
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The
@USSupremeCourt
case you don't know but should
For decades Federal agencies could be law maker, enforcer, and judge.
But
@jrhuddles
explains how the high Court is going to give the
@FTC
a history lesson on the Constitution and separation of powers
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In Epic v Google, it's all about the $$$ for Epic
This should come as no surprise to anyone, but Epic is not a philanthropic entity that is only brining lawsuits against Apple and Google out of the goodness of Epic's heart, it's about Epic wanting more money.
There is nothing
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BREAKING: Arkansas's Social Media Censorship law - blocked by judge
NetChoice secures prelim injunction on First Amendment grounds.
Huge win for free speech!
DISTRICT COURT HALTS UNCONSTITUTIONAL ARKANSAS LAW IN NETCHOICE V. GRIFFIN
CONTACT: Krista Chavez, press
@netchoice
.org
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.—Today, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas-Fayetteville Division halted Arkansas’ unconstitutional social media age
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Biden's FTC loses AGAIN in court!
But the process itself is the punishment.
Let's chalk up another loss for FTC Chair Lina Khan. How many is that now? We've lost count.
Several months ago, activist Chair Khan convinced her colleagues to block the Illumina-Grail acquisition—a
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The last thing America should do is import Europe's non existent tech sector.
This is part of the warning from a new
@WSJopinion
from
@georgepbush
- Reagan Wouldn't Sue Google
Bush warns against the myopic championing of anti-tech antitrust efforts.
He also warns about how
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If you thought the economy was bad, Biden's attack on workers is about to make it worse.
For anyone who wants to be their own boss, Biden's Department of Labor is about to say no—you must be an employee, not an entrepreneur.
@FoxBusiness
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This is why this accusation against Amazon from
@linakhanFTC
is so absurd.
It’s really not that hard.
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🚨 In a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing today, FTC Chair Khan had the audacity to ask for a whopping 25% budget increase.
$535 million for 2025, an increase from the $425.7M it received this year.
Considering how Khan has abused current FTC $ and authority, as
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BREAKING: Judge blocks
@JoeBiden
from coercing social media companies
Judge says Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment in trying to get content blocked - calling Biden's actions "Orwellian"
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Biden’s antitrust regulators seem focused on wasting taxpayer resources on frivolous lawsuits that lack evidence.
This lawsuit against Google from the Biden DOJ is another example of another antitrust case that lacks the facts and the law.
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BREAKING: Another day another frivolous lawsuit from Biden's FTC
This time for
@Amazon
for having the AUDACITY to encourage people to sign up for their service
Ironically, this is the same practice used by the people reporting the story
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Social media platforms are removing tons of content from Hamas regarding the atrocities being committed in Israel.
Many US lawmakers, including Rep McMorris-Rodgers, are now trying to better understand what is being done and what more can be done.
This horrible situation
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Wow they really HATE these "monopolies" yet are live streaming on YouTube.
They could have used Zoom, Teams, Periscope, StreamYard, Facebook Live, Vimeo Livestream, Restream, Panopto, Wistia, Dacast.
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Sad but true. Biden's FTC is colluding with foreign governments to undermine American businesses.
Congress must cut - not increase - the FTC's funding.
Taxpayers should NOT have to fund the FTC's galavanting around Europe to harm American businesses
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America can't afford to expose our data to bad actors.
But
@SenatorWarner
&
@SenAmyKlobuchar
would rather attack our leading tech businesses than keep us secure, asking Intel Comm to ignore the threats.
Cyber experts explain S2992 makes us less secure.
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Court says that California can't ban speech:
"There is no dispute that the CAADCA regulates speech that is neither misleading nor related to unlawful activity."
And that Age Gating the internet not only fails to do its job but actually causes dangers data security of children:
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Democracy dies behind government coverups and conspiracy with foreign governments to undermine American businesses
Thanks to
@GOPoversight
and
@JamesComer
for unearthing the
@linakhanFTC
collusion with the EU to attack America’s leading businesses
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Finally a principled and logical analysis of antitrust law that relies on analysis, economics, and law as opposed to emotion and anecdotes.
Written by
@M_Ohlhausen
,
@geoffmanne
,
@ProfWrightGMU
, and 19 other experts on the issue.
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For 20 years,
@NetChoice
has been protecting free enterprise & free expression on the Internet. We spend every day fighting for this mission.
This weekend,
@ElonMusk
showed the world why we're so passionate about it. My full comment on the Twitter Files:
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A new threat to our country - the EARN IT Act will diminish privacy, inhibit prosecution of child predators, and undermine encryption.
I outline the threat to encryption in the
@ocregister
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Turns out the FTC case against Amazon is nothing more than a paper tiger.
As
@WSJEditorials
points out, this is a weak case.
And they are not alone, Axios, and many other news outlets on the left, right, and center are calling out the absurdity of the FTC (aka Chair Lina
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BREAKING: TikTok ban in Montana is challenged in court
Lawsuit claims Montana ban on TikTok is a First Amendment violation
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This bill would censor speech online... and it might pass
This week the US House discusses KOSA, a bill that claims to protect children but is really government censorship of speech
We explain KOSA's censorship regime
@dcexaminer
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@CSWilsonFTC
@FTC
As someone who worked at the FTC and has great respect for it this makes me sad.
But with a gag-order on the staff and mismanagement, I'm not surprised.
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.
@SenRandPaul
says what all conservatives should be saying:
"Antitrust crusade against Amazon, YouTube and others would only hurt consumers" like
@SenAmyKlobuchar
's S.2992
We can't let them break our economy further
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Any privacy law should cover non-profits and government. Neither are covered by California Privacy Law, a law written by non-profits.
Since 2005 an average of over 9 data breaches a year by non-profits and over 66 breaches a year of educational institutions.
#Privacy
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The CEO of the Second largest corporation on the planet takes the stand.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella testified in DOJ v. Google today. This latest "development" shows why the US Government has no case and likewise this case isn't about helping Americans unless they work at
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Sad to see such a great Commissioner leaving the
@FTC
Commissioner
@FTCPhillips
is a leader and an important voice of sanity for an agency going in the wrong direction under its current leadership
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Calls for government control of speech by anyone is terrifying.
Another terrifying stat: "A majority of Democrats (52%) approve of the government censoring social media content"
Have we learned nothing from history. Our founders knew that free speech is core to a free society.
Stunning numbers among Dems in RCOR's new poll on free speech and censorship:
47% of Dems say free speech should be legal 'only under certain circumstances.
34% of Dems say Americans 'have too much freedom'
75% of Dems say government has a responsibility to censor 'hateful'
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Great explainer of the problems with
@SenBlumenthal
's EARN IT Act
As a parent I'm also worried that the bill would give criminals a way to escape justice.
This attempt to keep kids safe could actually undermine the fight against child predation online.
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Even a major newspaper is calling for Biden’s FTC Chair to resign.
Chair
@linakhanFTC
has reigned in an abusive and destructive way.
We catalogued her reckless abandonment of consumers.
She gagged staff from speaking out and forced out dissenting Commissioners.
Time to GO!
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Huge win for Apple - 9th Cir says that App Store is NOT a monopoly due to the innovative American environment
"Though Apple has significant market power, the court found it to be insufficiently durable given the rapidly changing nature of the market."
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As Spotify gets what it wants from the EU, it's still not happy.
Rather than compete in the business arena, Spotify ran to big EU government to get them to pick Spotify as a winner and make Apple and Apple's customers losers.
Well... the EU did it. And now Spotify is crying
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Even Antitrust Advocates say their bill harms Americans:
“If we make carveouts for all the pro-consumer features, then the bill will be useless,” the staffer for Grassley said.
Don't advance
@SenAmyKlobuchar
's anti-consumer bill S2992
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The Supreme Court is going to decide if social media could be 'weaponized' by Biden administration
If the US Supreme Court decides against NetChoice & CCIA it will open the floodgates to government control of the internet.
We talked about this threat with
@MariaBartiromo
on
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Stories from competitors are anecdotes not evidence. With all these documents and time, we'd expect a solid case against these businesses.
Calling someone a monopoly (especially when sitting next to direct competitors) doesn't make it so.
No consumer harm shown. No antitrust.
GOP lawmakers clearly want the media to cover their claims of anti-conservative bias as equivalent in gravity and stature to allegations of antitrust violations. But while the antitrust issues are accompanied by emails and documents, the GOP’s evidence is largely anecdotal.
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EU bureaucrat Margarethe Vestiger admits the importance of recent “alignment on antitrust” to collude with US against American businesses.
@AEI
Our government shouldn’t be working with foreign nations to undermine American businesses.
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New report shows that the Biden Administration's FTC & DOJ conspired with the USTR to undermine American international competitiveness.
A new report from the
@USChamber
reveals that "the email traffic between the agencies confirms the influence FTC and DOJ had over USTR
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Twitter wins big at US Supreme Court in Twitter v Taamneh
Opinion by Thomas for Twitter
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When historians look back, Lina Khan's reign at the FTC will be little more than a warning of how not to manage.
As outlines in a great
@WSJEditorials
by Howard Beales and Tim Muris, Khan's reign has been a chaotic failure.
Despite flailing around and attacking every American
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Another Biden agency hiding information from Congress
@Jim_Jordan
requested docs from
@linakhanFTC
and now she is attacking him for asking
Gov must be transparent and accountable to the people and Congress - Khan swore to uphold this when she took the job - now she ignores it
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Bidenomics is all about breaking what works.
Here’s what’s at stake in Biden’s trial against Google
Tomorrow, the US Government is suing Google for being too popular. Yes, really. And the consequences could be the internet as we know it.
The government breaks everything it touches - do not let it break Google.
Here’s everything you need to know 🧵
1. This is the first major
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None of the bills you’ve written do anything to address this problem.
This would be obvious if you held A Single hearing on your antitrust bills as
@Ticketmaster
is no where near being addressed.
What is going on with Ticketmaster is an example of why we need strong antitrust enforcement! Monopolies wreak havoc on consumers and our economy. When there is no competition to incentivize better services and fair prices, we all suffer the consequences.
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I am blown away that leaders of the conservative movement want increased government regulation of business and increased government regulation of free speech. Aren't they scared to think how a future President Warren would use this power?
#techlash
Joined
@TuckerCarlson
tonight to talk about big tech’s sweetheart deals from the fed government. Time for some accountability. Thanks for having me!
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You have private citizen Tim Wu getting access to the brief before disclosure so he can promote it on TV (pretty sure he shouldn't have access to confidential market moving information from the government).
You also have a clear conflict of interest from the lead prosecutor,
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Biden's campaign has announced it will try and censor content on social media. And he brought back the infamous Rob Flaherty to do it.
We need less censorship by government -- this is a huge step backwards for free speech.
Rob Flaherty, you may remember Flaherty from the
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.
@DavidAFrench
warns us about "a slow-building, bipartisan movement to engage in one of most significant acts of censorship in modern American history"
The attacks on
#Section230
via
@TIME
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Why is Biden’s DOJ fighting to help Microsoft defeat a company half its size?
Perhaps the fact that DOJ’s lead antitrust attorney use to be Microsoft’s antitrust attorney.
Prior to becoming DOJ’s Antitrust Chief Jonathan Kanter made millions from work for his paymasters -
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The Biden FTC is AGAIN looking to block the merger Microsoft-Activision merger they approved only a couple of weeks ago.
This should terrify every business, investor, and American with a 401k.
The message from the FTC is clear to every business, even if we approve your merger
The US Federal Trade Commission is reviving its challenge against Microsoft Corp.’s $69 billion acquisition of video game company Activision Blizzard Inc., a move which may seek to unwind the deal after it closes.
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Jury just found for Epic in Epic v. Google
Must not be many people on the jury familiar with Android, antitrust law, or even basic logic to come out with that decision.
Epic need only wait a couple of fortnights for it's win to be overturned.
Epic basically argued that because
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@SteveDelBianco
This was funny to read.
Steve has been called many things but certainly not a Democrat
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The Biden Administration is about to declare WAR -- against your phone
The Biden Department of Justice is expected to sue to breakup Apple.
This is another action by the Biden administration declaring war on American business rather than America's adversaries.
Time for our
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Parenting in the era of tech is hard.
Kids on devices can be frustrating.
But the job of parents is to help our teens and kids navigate this new technology. not have the government try (and fail) to do it for us.
@jrhuddles
explains via
@NetChoice
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Biden's FTC's latest suit against Amazon is about trying to control the economy, not helping americans.
As the
@WSJEditorials
board notes, the suit is not about helping Americans make ends meet, protecting consumers, or even caring about their welfare, it's about advancing their
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As
@nytimes
correction said it best:
“An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the law that protects hate speech on the internet. The First Amendment, not Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, protects it.”
The First Amendment, and not Section 230, protects hate speech," Kosseff points out
#Section230
#PACTAct
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.
@RepRaskin
basically asking
@amazon
-
Why are Alexa speakers so inexpensive? They should cost much more.
Thanks for looking out for your constituents 🙄
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New tech to stop fraud!!
Sitting at the Google I/O 2024 conference I just saw an amazing new use of AI to monitor phone calls to detect fraudulent calls.
A family member got scammed this way and now AI can help stop it.
And it does all the processing on the phone so privacy is
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While the Biden Administration and Democrats in the Senate work to breakup America’s leading businesses, House Republicans are rightly focused on how the government is abusing its power to control free speech.
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Agree with
@ProfWrightGMU
- Hard to find monopoly in a marketplace with multiple competitors and low barriers to entry (ie the entry of SnapChat). America’s innovation is exceptional showing antitrust enforcement is working.
#FTCHearings
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See for example the definition of "Generative AI" in the legislation from Sens Hawley and Blumenthal:
Generative AI is an AI that can generate content
Doesn't get much more circular than that
At
#POLITICOGlobalTech
@SenTedCruz
says, "'To be honest, Congress doesn’t know what the hell its doing in this area" when discussing regulating nascent AI technologies. "This is not a tech savvy group.”
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Spirit Airlines might crash..and it's because of the Biden administration's war on American businesses
When the Biden DOJ blocked the Jetblue-Spirit merger it sent Spirit into a financial tailspin.
Now Spirit has canceled new plane orders just to have enough $ to operate.
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@RobPWJ
I was just reading this in the print edition.
The whole time I’m asking myself so why is this bad?
Don’t we want more competition in the marketplace?
Don’t we want lower prices?
Who is the government supposed to protect Trader Joe’s or American consumers?
With prices
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My latest take in the
@washingtonpost
:
As US businesses work to recover from the economic ravaging of COVID, this bill threatens to halt innovation... It would shackle the American economy just when we’re struggling to keep our head above water.
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Big Tech Censorship Goes to the Supreme Court
On Monday Feb-26, two cases before SCOTUS, NetChoice & CCIA v Moody and Paxton, will determine the future of the internet
As discussed by
@WSJEditorials
- Florida and Texas want government to police free speech on social-media
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New defender of the internet announced today
Just launched - the NetChoice Litigation Center
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Be careful what you post in Canada, the wrong thing could get you jailed FOR LIFE!
Canada has just introduced legislation to make illegal posting any "content that foments hatred" with penalties anywhere from 5 years to LIFE - Bill C-63.
And the government essentially gets to
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Turns out the free market is what is going to save local journalism.
As
@axios
shows, the internet is making it possible.
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Antitrust law and the consumer welfare standard should apply EQUALLY - regardless of whether it’s big media or anyone else.
JCPA is Bad as it’s a handout to big media
@amyklobuchar
’s S2992 and S2710 are bad as it’s a handout to
@Yelp
and
@Spotify
The Journalism Competition and Protection Act allows the press to collude with big tech to create a media cartel.
It's a bad idea, it would result in more censorship, and every conservative should oppose it.
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Court shuts down the state:
“the State has not shown that the CAADCA’s policy language provision would directly advance a solution to that harm.”
“The lack of any attempt at tailoring the proposed solution to a specific harm suggests that the State here seeks to force covered
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Florida's legislature just passed a law that would require the most massive data collection on Floridians in the state's history.
It creates ID for the internet.
And it replaces parents with Government.
What a bad idea.
(oh and by the way, it violates the First Amendment
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