The Soft Corruption of Big Tech’s Antitrust Defense
▻https://onezero.medium.com/the-soft-corruption-of-big-techs-antitrust-defense-abf226aaa124
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are paying third parties millions to make their case. Sometimes we know about the money, sometimes we don’t. When New York State Senator Michael Gianaris called a hearing last September to discuss his new Big Tech antitrust bill, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft all declined to appear. But as he sorted the schedule, the Progressive Policy Institute, a “radically pragmatic” think tank, asked to send a representative. Alec Stapp, that (...)
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