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NEW: As of today, over 10,500 people from across the country have sent letters to @JusticeATR urging them to #BreakUpTicketmaster.🔨🎟️

As we hit this exciting milestone, here’s a recap on why we launched this campaign, and what we hope it will achieve.
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Some background: Thanks to a merger with Live Nation in 2010, Ticketmaster has almost total control over live music & sporting events.

With that power, they rip off fans, short change artists, & strong-arm venues.

@KristaKBrown & @FreedZach have more.👇
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That’s why you’re stuck with more junk fees, secondary markets, price-gouging, and every facet of awful service.

Here’s @doctorow and @MorePerfectUS laying out the full story.

https://twitter.com/MorePerfectUS/status/1582740361855651841

Over the years, people have gotten fed up. Almost every music fan has some sort of Ticketmaster horror story — and that isn’t a coincidence.

Artists are outraged too: either at how hard it is for their fans to get tickets or because Ticketmaster cuts them out of the revenue!

And for sports fans? You can thank Ticketmaster price-gouging for skyrocketing prices to watch your favorite team play.

But @POTUS recently directed the antitrust agencies to reexamine old mergers — and we think there’s a strong argument to unwind this one.

Through #BreakUpTicketmaster, YOU can take direct action by sending a letter to @JusticeATR urging them to do so.
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We launched this campaign to give a voice to the broad swath of sports & music fans, artists, and venue owners tired of Ticketmaster — w/ @fightmonopolies, @MorePerfectUS, @sportsfanorg, @FanFreedom, @ConsumerFed, @future_of_music, @artistrightsnow, @demandprogress & @ncl_tweets.

And so far, the traction has been astounding.

Swifties and metalheads, Yankees and Sox fans have all come together in search of a greater cause — taking a stand against Live Nation-Ticketmaster’s dreadful service.

We think that’s proof enough that this campaign is worthwhile.

If you do too, share the link so we can reach another 10,000 emails.💪
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