This week, the Arizona state Senate will debate a law attacking the monopoly Google and Apple have over app stores. Bizarrely, a few weeks ago, it was the Arizona Democrats - not the GOP - who were making extreme libertarian arguments in service of big tech. I clipped the debate.
It's hard to overstate the extreme nature of these claims. One Democrat objects on grounds that the state has no role intervening among private parties in a market. That logic would invalidate environmental, labor, and civil rights rules!
I wrote up the contours of the Arizona fight against big tech monopoly power a few weeks ago. mattstoller.substack.com/p/apple-threat…
And @Pat_Garofalo and I had a piece in the New York Times describing why the Arizona House was right to take on this fight. nytimes.com/2021/03/18/opi…
"I'd like to thank Apple and Google for the innovation they've helped create for all of us." - Arizona Democrat Judy Schwiebert (@JudyForAZ)
Most progressives who have looked into the problem actually support the law constraining monopolistic app stores. For example Elizabeth Warren, @davidcicilline and @RepJayapal. In fact the GOP used the Democratic House Antitrust Report as support!
https://twitter.com/senwarren/status/1367268527162417155
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