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Fighting for little tech. Head of Public Policy, Y Combinator. @Weijia wife guy.
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Remember: US v Google case is broken into two parts. We now enter the remedy phase. This ruling could significantly reshape the competitive landscape to benefit "little tech" by reducing Google's gatekeeping power & creating more open competition in search & digital advertising.
🚨 A federal judge just ruled that Google "is a monopolist" in search and advertising and has "violated Section 2 of the Sherman Act" 🚨
Unclear what this will mean exactly for Google at this point but it's definitely a damning ruling that targets its search default deal with
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How NYC local news covered the dead bear RFK Jr put into Central Park ten years ago 😬👀
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I feel like I’m taking crazy pills
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Just watched this interview and Jon Stewart revealed he was prohibited from interviewing Lina Khan when he was working for Apple + generally described their heavy-handedness in censoring his programming. 🚨
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The most baffling thing about DC? The bar inside the Giant on Wisconsin is always packed. Seriously, who goes drinking in a grocery store?! 🍺🛒😅
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This is INSANE. Apple has killed Epic’s developer account as retaliation over
@TimSweeneyEpic
’s tweets.
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🔥🔥🔥
New tool in the Chrome store slaps a disclosure/warning label on individuals & orgs that take funding from Big Tech.
Download here:
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Antitrust politics are fascinating right now. This segment praises
@linamkhan
and punishes the McCarthy/Jordan faction for carrying Big Tech’s water. It ran minutes after a letter by pro-Big Tech Dems to Pelosi dropped urging her to stall bipartisan bill.
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Inject this directly into my veins.
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Google just lost its motion to dismiss an antitrust suit brought by
@rumblevideo
. The ruling judge is an Obama appointee.
Rumble is going to get to discovery in its anti-trust and damages lawsuit against Google. Discovery on Googke’s allegedly manipulated and anti-trust search algorithms. Everyone should appreciate just how huge this is.
@rumblevideo
@Google
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That time The Boss photobombed my future wife and I on our first date to see
@FishInTheDark
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NEW: Starting today on Yelp, business owners can opt in to two new attributes – “Proof of vaccination required” and “All staff fully vaccinated.”
Users will be able to filter by these attributes when searching for local businesses on Yelp.
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NEW: Epic Games has asked a judge to sanction Google for destroying evidence in the middle of their antitrust litigation.
You could fill a book with story after story about how shady Google is when it comes to litigation…
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🚨🚨🚨
@Leah_Nylen
just dropped an atom bomb on DC.💣
All of the full, unredacted confidential FTC memos from the 2011-2013 Google antitrust investigations are officially in the public domain.
Staff memo:
Econ memo:
🚨🚨🚨
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According to Social Blade's YouTube revenue estimator (), YouTube isn't just greenlighting the harassment against
@gaywonk
, it's providing the harasser at least $81K (and up to $1.3 million annually) in direct payment via revenue shares.
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Some professional news:
I started at
@YCombinator
yesterday in a newly created role, Head of Public Policy.
I'm super excited about the next chapter in my career, and couldn't be more thrilled to be working with
@garrytan
and the incredible folks at YC:
🔗
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I’m this guy.
In this country we have two kinds of people: Those who don't need masks but wear them, and those who need masks but don't wear them.
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Incredible. This Maine local news station did an entire segment on
#S2992
to explain to viewers why their local airwaves have been taken over by misinformation being pushed by Big Tech.
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umm... WOW. Breitbart just dropped video of a full TGIF (Google's confidential company-wide meeting) the day after the election.
Might send a bottle of scotch to Google D.C. What a nightmare...
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Is this ad just dropped by
@ZephyrTeachout
the greatest political ad ever?
It's definitely a contender.
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🚨🚨🚨 HOLY SMOKES 🚨🚨🚨
This is far higher than the highest estimates by the smartest Wall Street analysts.
Apple — the “pro-privacy” company that popularized personal computers — makes more $ steering people to Google’s AdTech panopticon than it does selling Mac devices 💻
On Day 29, we got the figure. In 2021, Google paid $26.3 billion to ensure its search engine was the default on web browsers and mobile phones.
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“12 former security officials who warned against antitrust crackdown have tech ties”
Is there a single person who defends Big Tech who isn’t somehow in on the take? (No.)
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Google 👏 antitrust 👏 is 👏 bipartisan
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Missed this one yesterday: a slew of freshmen GOP Members of Congress tee up an olive branch to President Biden, citing Big Tech antitrust enforcement as an issue they support 👀
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This isn’t hard,
@joebiden
. Anyone who had a chance to reign in Big Tech and didn’t should be disqualified.
The Prospect and The Intercept have learned that Renata Hesse, a former Obama Justice Department official who then went on to work for Google and Amazon, is a leading contender to head up the DoJ Antitrust Division.
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28 years ago today, a public, boarding STEM high school which was the brainchild of
@HillaryClinton
was established in Arkansas.
@ARMathSciArts
changed my life. I wrote about it &
@HillaryClinton
’s forgotten role in the school a few years ago.
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I would like to better understand the backstory here, but the optics of the US Dept of Labor settling a hiring discrimination issue against Google with this kind of slap on the wrist 11 days into the Biden administration are horrible.
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I was wondering why Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren was locking arms with Jim Jordan in trying to slow down the *very reasonable* antitrust bills targeting Big Tech:
Lofgren's daughter is on Google's in-house legal team. Incredible. tip
@Techmeme
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12 years ago today,
@JoeBiden
became Vice President-elect. A video I shot that night at Grant Park.
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Some might try to characterize today's filing as a partisan vendetta by the Trump Administration. That is the false narrative Google wants you to hear. The House Antitrust Subcommittee report was signed by all Ds and there are 2 bipartisan state AG groups doing their own G cases.
Looks like the states joining DOJ's
@Google
#antitrust
suit are: Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, South Carolina and Texas, per PACER. All Republican AGs.
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Republican Congressman
@repkenbuck
&
@TuckerCarlson
attack libertarians and conservatives in the pocket of Big Tech who push the notion that “the market will take care of itself”
Big Tech Antitrust is Bipartisan👇
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After 15+ incredible years, today is my last active day at Yelp.
I’ll share details on my future plans very soon, but for now, check out the last essay I'll ever write wearing a ‘Yelp hat’
It’s been an epic run, and for that, I’ll be forever grateful. 🥹
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“I think Lina Khan is one of the few people in the Biden administration who is actually doing a good job.” -
@JDVance1
just now at
#RemedyFest
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Jen Psaki says she needs to “look more closely” into whether a Facebook or Apple lawyer would need to recuse themselves if they were appointed by the Biden admin to run the DOJ’s antitrust division
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Perhaps
@elonmusk
should run a poll with the following language:
Should Twitter support the passage of S2992 & S2710, bipartisan bills to curb self-dealing by companies like Apple?
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Interrupting your dystopian feed for some personal news 👶🥰
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Nothing in the Page/Brin announcement says anything about a divestiture or relinquishing of the voting control. The fact remains: Larry Page and Sergey Brin are the most powerful and least accountable humans on the planet.
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It is now the 21st minute of the 21st hour of the last 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century.
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Congrats to
@TimSweeneyEpic
and the Epic team to sticking to your guns and prevailing. Lots of positive externalities to this case beyond the Play Store and a likely preview of DOJ Ad Tech case, which is also a jury trial. 💪
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Emotional goodbyes this morning:
Every Monday & Wednesday, my 2 year old excitedly greets her heroes – the garbage men.
Last month, the locally owned company was acquired by
@RepublicService
& 2/3 of the guys are being cut loose.
Today’s their last route seeing Frankie. 😢😡
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Update: Google loses motion to prevent evidence it acted anticompetitively from entering the public domain.
NEW: After Epic posted its unredacted complaint (following a judge's order), Google has just filed an emergency motion to stop other parties in the case from unredacting their documents (h/t
@mlexclusive
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An exec at a think tank which takes $ from Google links to a piece written by another think tank that takes $ from Google to advance the bad faith argument that it’s untenable to curb Google’s self-dealing.
@ewarren
’s Big Tech proposals have awoken the Google shill bot network.
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I read nearly every story about Google. IMHO, this piece is one of the most important ones that's been written in years. It goes deep on a trend I flagged last week in an interview when asked about an under-appreciated issue.
Google has betrayed the web:
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So Eric Schmidt is *really* out at Google?
Schmidt's main value to Google: he was a political animal who understood that antitrust was the only thing that could stop the search giant.
He made a lot of smart bets until he lost a big one.
Speaking of Schmidt, CNET is reporting he is fully out at Google.
@richardjnieva
says the departure ends his use of the 2 Google employees as assistants
@CadeMetz
and
@kateconger
reported on last week
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His Holiness has been reading Stoller.
The big food corporations to stop imposing monopolistic production and distribution structures that inflate prices and end up withholding bread from the hungry.
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“We’re in the middle of the craziest battle for little tech vs Big Tech … it comes back to whether open source AI models are going to be allowed to thrive.”
-
@GarryTan
to
@EmilyChangTV
at
#BloombergTech
It’s worth your time to watch the full exchange 👇
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Sad news: I recently learned my friend & old roommate Mahbod Moghadam passed away last month due to complications from a recurring tumor. He was 41. Mahbod co-founded
@Genius
. Mahbod was one of a kind.
His family has posted a fitting obituary on Genius:
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Google paid to put fake news about me on Red State. Its in-house lobbyist then pushed the fabricated story to Capitol Hill staff in order to undermine my critiques of Google’s antitrust violations.
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Google doesn't just propagate misinformation. It profits from it.
The FTC should go after this type of business.
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I've been working on Big Tech antitrust stuff for a decade. The first DC think tank person who really listened to what I was saying and exhibited any open-mindedness was
@matthewstoller
. The anti-monopoly movement wouldn't be where it is today without him.
Happy birthday, Matt!
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In an alternate universe, this is the Center for American Progress tweeting an MSNBC clip of a progressive activist describing his work to expose Big Tech’s influence in D.C., but in our universe, there is still is far too much Big Tech money sloshing around on the left.
Thanks to
@JonSchweppe
for doing some great work tracking Big Tech's influence operations in D.C.
We've got to understand how these companies are influencing policy, especially as they exert more control over our society:
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CBS Mornings had a touching segment about my wife
@weijia
’s story of immigrating to the U.S. and growing up in small town West Virginia. So proud! ❤️
Next year,
@weijia
will be the first woman of color to serve as President of
@whca
.
But her story begins in an unexpected small town — and she took
@vladduthiersCBS
back home to share the emotional journey to reaching her dreams.
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Thank goodness Uber decimated the taxi industry so I can now wait in a 15 minute Uber line at BWI.
#progress
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Google has been a far more destructive force to democracy than Facebook. A rigorous tour de force of journalism by
@propublica
👇
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Happy birthday to the greatest mommy & wife in the world! 😗😗😗❤️❤️❤️
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“I got fired from my think tank after criticizing Google in 2017, so that section [on the way that these corporations finance think tanks and academics] rings true to me.” must-read analysis by
@matthewstoller
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Arsonists Demand Firefighter be Recused on the Matter of Fire
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Here are
@JDVance1
’s full remarks to RemedyFest. Worth a watch for anyone trying to understand what his pick as VP on the GOP ticket might mean for tech.
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Welcome Frankie!
Congrats to our White House correspondent
@weijia
and her husband who welcomed their baby girl into the world. Frances Mei made an appearance early on
#ChristmasEve
... looks she didn’t want to miss out out on Xmas gifts. On behalf of your
@CBSNews
family, we are thrilled for you!
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“Nearly 40 years ago Reagan declared, the 9 most terrifying words in the English language were ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’. Today, for devs, it may be ‘I’m from the App Store developer support team and your app has been denied’”
@linakhanFTC
at
#RemedyFest
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I still can’t get over how brazen Google is acting here. Everything is on the line, so they’re weaponizing their product & customer lists to push lies. It’s a step away from snooping Senators’ personal search histories and Gmails for any edge. No company is more powerful.
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I’m not saying my 3 year old daughter has magic powers, but we did just encounter an epic rainbow 🌈 and find a four leaf clover 🍀 during our 15-minute post-dinner walk tonight.
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So embarrassing that
@60Minutes
gave 2/3(!) of its show over to Google PR to provide us with an incredibly biased view of AI. Why not interview
@timnitGebru
/
@mer__edith
/etc? Someone at
@OpenAI
?
Nope, just a 40 minute Google commercial designed to undermine antitrust scrutiny.
“Holy cow!” exclaimed Scott Pelley as he used Bard, Google’s newly released artificial intelligence chatbot.
The technology appeared to possess the sum of all human knowledge, with microchips 100,000 times faster than the human brain.
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This just dropped: Google gave Netflix a sweetheart deal of 6% relative to the 30% cut the Play Store took from everyone else
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NEW: at
#TribFest2022
w/
@karaswisher
,
@HillaryClinton
calls on Democrats to be more public with their support of
@amyklobuchar
’s antitrust bill to curb Big Tech’s self-dealing.
@ChuckGrassley
has said he has 20 votes, so it’s not clear why
@SenSchumer
hasn’t called a vote 🤔
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@googlepubpolicy
It’s definitely worth 6 minutes of your time to watch the DOJ articulate its antitrust case against Google:
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This is a lazy counterargument by Amazon’s defenders. When I walk into a Target, the product appearances on shelves are not A/B optimized to minimize my chance of buying 3rd party goods. To ignore
@davidcicilline
reference to “unprecedented tools” is arguing in bad faith.
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Shhh! Nobody tell him that the key complainants in the EU antitrust investigations against Google are companies from the United States...🤫
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After I tweeted this 2 weeks ago,
@AnupamChander
pretended to be deeply offended & rallied his colleagues.
Today,
@TheProspect
releases an investigative piece w/a Google source confirming multiple Google-funded junkets & hundreds of thousands in $.🤷
@AnupamChander
Anupam, the fact that you’re so allergic to disclosing your Google funding makes me assume it’s in the hundreds of thousands of dollars or more and has probably included a junket or two. Am I wrong?
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If I were Chair of a subcommittee doing a hearing with the
#BigTechBarons
, I'd require them to use this as a green screen
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Amazing story lost in the wake of Sen. McCain's passing:
Former Iowa Congressman Leonard Boswell's funeral was last Saturday. At 3am before the funeral, his wife Dody also passed, so they held a joint funeral. They were married for 63 years 😢
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Eric Schmidt had a “Staff” badge with his name on it at Clinton’s election night party.
Google is democrats’ Halliburton.
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Now do Big Tech
I just signed the No Fossil Fuel Money pledge -- a commitment that our campaign will not be financed by contributions from the PACs, the executives, or the front groups of the fossil fuel industry.
#NoFossilFuelMoney
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Before Lina Khan, the FTC was led by impotent and/or corrupt appointees. The bot army of shills who like & retweet each others’ bad faith attacks on Khan are doing so because they’re paid by companies finally being held accountable.
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Google declined an invitation to appear on the
#60Minutes
segment, yet it has already mobilized one of the 300 organizations its funds to push intellectually disingenuous attacks on a company 1/200th its size.
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@DeepFakeZuck
@SenSchumer
This is brilliant. Delicious irony given Facebook is responsible for kicking off big tech space race of hoovering up faceprint data at scale + lobbies against laws that would curb its use. Facebook also has hidden behind Google/Amazon when it’s self preferencing some of the worst
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Based on this exchange, it seems like Google CEO Sundar Pichai *really* does not want to answer questions about local search. Perhaps because there are no good answers? 😬
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Here is clip
Just watched this interview and Jon Stewart revealed he was prohibited from interviewing Lina Khan when he was working for Apple + generally described their heavy-handedness in censoring his programming. 🚨
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🚨US v Google Trial Starts Tomorrow!🚨
I've tracked this closely for over a decade, so how about a quick thread?🧵
Let's start by setting the record straight on one key issue: Vertical Search.
38 bipartisan states & territories are part of the states' verticals case.🇺🇸
(1/9)
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Some democrats with stakes in big tech companies think they can manifest a return to the Obama-era love fest between big tech and Washington circa 2011. But I don’t think that world is ever coming back.
Here’s why we have to overturn Citizens United & end Big Money in politics:
Billionaire Reid Hoffman donated $7 million to the Harris campaign.
Now, he wants her, as president, to fire an outstanding members of the Biden Administration, FTC Chair Lina Khan. Not acceptable.
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tfw your front group forgets to delete crosstabs of the push poll you funded
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This explosive piece on illicit location tracking by Google has a significant nexus w/Google's abuse of dominance in local search: key source was, "a graduate researcher [who was] ***prompted to rate a shopping trip to Kohl's,*** even though she had turned Location History off."
Google says you can turn off its location tracking services on your phone at any time. An AP investigation has found that isn't true.
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