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Jul 29, 2020 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
This line of questioning from @RepValDemings on the combining of user profiles of Google and DoubleClick against what they promised in 2007/2008 is *incredibly important.* #BigTechBarons
This is a big deal, @RepValDemings putting Sundar Pichai on the spot over Google's choice in 2016 to fulfill its bait and switch strategy. I hope European regulators reviewing the Google-Fitbit deal are listening. #BigTechBarons
Show me the last time a journalist put any CEO on the spot the way @RepValDemings just did, let alone four the most powerful men in the corporate world. #BigTechBarons

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Deepseek is forcing the entire Silicon Valley ecosystem to recognize that Lina Khan was right, even if they won’t admit it.
Here’s the point. ftc.gov/system/files/f…
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Jan 23
1. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is bad because it was a way of taking the civil rights movement - which was about prohibiting economic discrimination at its core - and corrupting it to serve corporate interests. Here are some examples, starting with UnitedHealth Group. Image
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1. Want some fun news before the Monday inauguration that you won't have heard anywhere else? The antitrust enforcers (Lina Khan et al) went full Tony Montana on big business this week before Trump people took over. Here's just part of what they did. Image
2. The FTC filed a monopolization claim against agricultural machine maker John Deere for generating $6 billion by prohibiting farmers from being able to repair their own equipment, a suit which Wired magazine calls a “tipping point” for the right to repair movement. Image
3. They also released another report on pharmacy benefit managers, including that of UnitedHealth Group, showing that these companies inflated prices for specialty pharmaceuticals by more than $7 billion. Image
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There’s a nontrivial chance that Trump’s new term is the actual catastrophe that liberals imagined his first one would be. I don’t mean authoritarian, I mean economic, military and social collapse.
Here's why I think there's a nontrivial chance of a serious dislocation under Trump. It's not because of him, per se, but structural things he won't fix.

Here are a few. The U.S. net international investment position is negative $23 trillion and sinking rapidly. That's crazy. Image
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There's something off about all of the post-election recriminations among Democrats. It's not that any of the theories are wrong, it's that none of these pontificators actually know how to make government do anything.
Like, sure, use different language if you think that matters. The bottom line is Obama said you can keep your doctor and health costs would go down and that didn't happen and most Dems don't seem remotely curious why that is.
There are a few people in Biden-world who did CHIPS stuff, there's some export control people, there are some anti-monopolists, but that's sort of it for Democrats who have actually done anything with power.
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