What do you need to know about #antitrust and how that applies to privacy, judicial appointments and accountability, and #BigTechCensorship.

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What is Antitrust?

Antitrust is basically a set of legal principles, laws, and precedents that inform us on how to handle anti-competition behaviors of companies.
Big businesses may work with other organizations to undermine competition in the economic landscape, which is what antitrust seeks to prevent.

Since businesses are built to beat their competition, they can hinder their competition’s ability to succeed.
However, they cannot work to destroy competition itself. And, that is where antitrust comes into play. There are many examples of antitrust violations we can point to, but the basics of antitrust is that we want to promote a competitive environment.
Antitrust and Big Tech

We must do something about big tech need, but what? First we must understand a few things.

Are big tech companies monopolies? Does big tech violate antitrust law in the United States?
What can we do to regulate big tech?

We'll find the answers to each of these questions in the particulars. There's no simple answer. Rather, the devil is in the details.
We want to have a quick fix-all answer, instead of a tool kit of solutions to push back against bad behaviors.

Big Tech poses several problems:
-privacy issues
-unfair competition
-ambiguous terms
-one-sided censorship
-and more
One act can't fix all these problems. Instead, we have to separate the problems and address each with the right remedy.

That's what I discuss with @andashleysays in this episode: conversationofourgeneration.com/2021/04/13/ant…

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