Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/LinkedInA new report from the nonprofit Tech Transparency Project reveals that even Amazon has gotten in on the nepo baby trend: choosing as its champion in the PR fight against a hotly anticipated Federal Trade Commission antitrust suit a legendary name in Beltway conservative lore—Robert Bork.Of course, Judge Robert Bork—famous for firing the Watergate special prosecutor at the behest of President Richard Nixon as Solicitor General, and for
18 Jan 2021
A group of “free-market and low-tax advocates” are urging House Republicans to back off plans to take antitrust action against Big Tech companies.
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Washington Timesreported the “conservative activists” authored a 10-page letter to Republican U.S. Reps. Ken Buck (CO), Matt Gaetz (FL), and Andy Biggs (AZ) and it said in part:
We fear that today, both sides of the aisle are pushing for the weaponization of antitrust, either as a tool to punish corporate actors with whom they disagree or out of a presupposition that big is bad.
Unfortunately, the antitrust debate has begun to devolve into a litany of unrelated and often contradictory concerns, unsubstantiated and dismissive attacks, and seemingly a presumption that any market-related complaint that can be made on the internet can also be cured by the panacea of antitrust.