Sara Morrison
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Correspondent @capitol_forum covering all things tech antitrust email: smorrison@thecapitolforum signal:@sara.01 confidential tips: [email protected]
New York, NY
Joined November 2008
I am now @Capitol_Forum covering antitrust! send me tips or say hi: smorrison@thecapitolforum.com
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my favorite thing about the bike lanes in NYC is how the DOT changed its definition of a bike so the Amazon could use them for deliveries.
Every day that I go downtown, I walk past totally empty bike lanes. Can this really be worthwhile urban land use?
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can't even tell what is a real clip from the show and what is my dog -- resemblance is uncanny
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so my dog is Emily Prentiss from #CriminalMinds for Halloween. Please enjoy Emily Pugtiss. if you do not enjoy, blame @EmilyStewartM @pagetpaget she is available if you need a stand-in on the show, you guys are basically twins.
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we could have had laws to ban this ... I'm old enough to remember the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act
In recent weeks, ICE has purchased a string of surveillance technologies including iris and face scanners, spyware that can remotely hack smartphones & cellphone location data that otherwise would require a warrant, according to a review of recent contracts.
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amazing how cheaper teslas are announced as soon as the $7,500 tax credit goes away
A discount on Teslas to compensate drivers for feeling crappy about associating with Elon
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Barry Lynn on the Abundance movment: “They’ve got no answer to oligarchy, they’ve got no answer to concentration of power and control... They are naïve neoliberals and they are just missing that part of the brain, that frontal lobe that allows you to see power.”
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also old enough to remember when people (like Paul Tassi, above) laughed at the FTC for challenging the merger, saying it wouldn't change a thing and consumers would be just fine
forbes.com
On Tuesday, news broke that the FTC had lost its case against Microsoft over the Activision Blizzard deal, and no injunction will be filed preventing the deal from going forward.
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I'm old enough to remember when we had an FTC that was concerned about how the Activision/Microsoft merger would affect prices
holy shit Game Pass Ultimate is $30 a month now, up from $20
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wait what I thought it was $22m to build the WH ballroom and $2.5m going to legal fees and the other plaintiffs with no admission of wrongdoing, but this makes it look like Google just gave a sitting president a whole lot of money for doing something wrong???? how can this be
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interesting lead image -- Barry Lynn sure looks different from what I remember
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big "Dad fell asleep while watching the alien shows on History Channel again" energy here
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I'm gonna guess that if Lina was still in charge, the FTC would not have settled this case.
In 2023, we sued Amazon and several top executives for tricking people into Prime subscriptions and then making it absurdly difficult to cancel. This week marked the start of a historic jury trial, where American citizens would hear details of Amazon’s business practices and
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which is why they were willing to settle! judge already found they violated one part of ROSCA and that two of the three execs could be liable for it too
"Amazon admitted to no wrongdoing in agreeing to settle, the agency said." A judge already ruled in summary judgment they violated the law.
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NEW: I interviewed @AbdulElSayed about his Senate campaign's focus on calling out consolidation and corporate power as the roots of financial strain, and how he's pursuing economic populism as a new political alignment. Exclusive for @Capitol_Forum.
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did they make the Apple Watch face smaller this time? I kinda want one but it's too big for my tiny wrists :(
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not so fast, Brooklyn Eagle
Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber to be paid by Anthropic
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.@BusinessInsider has sued Google over adtech antitrust violations. Fourth major publisher to do so, second after the favorable EDVA decision. @Capitol_Forum readers knew these might be coming three weeks ago https://t.co/oq6VviO4O8
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interesting timing on this!
Just in: @FTC drops appeal of court order vacating noncompete rule
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FTC promoting competition by inviting public comment on noncompetes that could possibly lead to a noncompete ban rule, despite already having a noncompete ban rule and 26,000 comments that went along into making it.
FTC issues Request for Information on employee noncompete agreements. The public will have 60 days to submit comments at https://t.co/P0m1ihVBOs, no later than November 3, 2025. Learn more: https://t.co/YV92X4TZYo /1
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