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Trump doesn’t want ‘to hurt Ireland’ — but he might
Ireland’s visiting prime minister endures an excruciating 45 minutes in Trump’s live-TV star chamber as the U.S. leader swings at Brussels, not Dublin.Shawn Pogatchnik (POLITICO)
"Among the loyalists selected by Donald Trump to staff his second administration, Gail Slater stands out for a different reason: she unites right and left with a sceptical view of big business.
While the US president’s other nominees tend to be traditional conservative free market advocates, Slater, his pick to lead the Justice Department’s antitrust division, is expected to maintain the Biden administration’s vigorous approach to enforcement — much to Wall Street’s chagrin.
In public remarks and written submissions to lawmakers, the 53-year-old Oxford graduate has expressed concern about market concentration and said enforcement should be focused on technology and sectors with a direct impact on Americans’ pocketbooks.
Slater embodies the unlikely alignment of progressives who support tough antitrust enforcement and a new generation of populist conservatives helmed by vice-president JD Vance, who has called for the break-up of Google."
https://www.ft.com/content/769709d5-f897-497d-a8f2-ce15a3c977ed
#USA #Trump #Antitrust #DoJ #BigBusiness #Competition #Monopolies #Oligopolies
'Arrogance is astounding': Microsoft hikes subscription prices causing consumer backlash
Microsoft has increased the price of its Microsoft 365 subscriptions, which it says has new AI features, but the price hike caused consumer outrage.Nassim Khadem (ABC News)
#Bandwidth battle begins🧐🤔🇹🇭
" #NBTC chairman Boonbaichaiyapruck said the #auction is expected to attract major #operators,🤥 though the market only has two major operators: #AIS and #True"
https://www.bangkokpost.com/business/general/2957863/bandwidth-battle-begins
Bandwidth battle begins
The auction of six mobile spectrum bands on May 6 is expected to attract private mobile operators looking to increase their network capacity, but some have complained that spectrum prices are too expensive.Komsan Tortermvasana (Bangkok Post)
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/key-issues-shaping-state-level-tech-policy
#USA #TechPolicy #Privacy #AI #RightToRepair #NetNeutrality #Competition
And I really mean ANY competition, anywhere, whatsoever.
Rest of the #world should wake up to that new reality.
https://interestingengineering.com/culture/law-proposed-to-criminalize-deepseek
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US to criminalize DeepSeek download, up to 20 years prison, $100M fine
The future of AI is under scrutiny, with proposed laws threatening severe punishments for using Chinese AI, such as DeepSeek.Kaif Shaikh (Interesting Engineering)
But – as Dayen points out – they're almost certainly gonna give Chopra the axe eventually. When they do, the CFPB will continue to do some enforcements. It's likely that Ferguson will eventually direct the FTC to do something apart from peering under their beds looking for "woke." When they do take action, they'll probably take action against companies that are wildly, lavishly corrupt. After all, that describes basically all of American big business, a sector that has festered thanks to 40 years of antitrust negligence.
It will be tempting for Trump's opponents to decide that if Trump hates these giant, evil companies, well, then, they must be good. Think of when "progressives" fell in love with the "intelligence community" just because a couple spooks decided they hated Trump. The FBI isn't your friend, folks – this is the agency that tried to blackmail MLK into killing himself:
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The enemy of your enemy? Still your enemy, provided that they're a big, predatory monopolist. Boss politics is about punishing corruption – selectively. Trump-style antitrust is going to target a ton of bad businesses. That won't make them good."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/24/enforcement-priorities/#enemies-lists
#USA #Trump #Antitrust #Competition #FCC #CFPB #BossPolitics #Plutocracy
Yet three things may yet check their dominance. The first is that competition is intensifying between the biggest tech companies themselves as they all make colossal bets on AI and try to disrupt each others’ business models. “Big Tech can no longer deliver growth by staying in their respective lanes,” says Richard Kramer, Arete’s founder. “We expect more Hunger Games-style competition between Big Tech, attacking each other’s ‘core’ business, in consumer tech hardware, cloud services, content and ecommerce.”
That competition is also increasingly acquiring a legal dimension as tech companies attack each other in court. Musk is suing OpenAI and Altman claiming that he, and others, were duped into investing in the AI start-up because of its “fake humanitarian mission”. He also trolled the Stargate announcement this week, posting on X: “They don’t actually have the money.”"
https://www.ft.com/content/ffcd84d1-822c-492c-94e2-07785cfe3524
#USA #Trump #BigTech #Antitrust #Oligopolies #Competition
Trump is becoming the technoking of America
The president is surrounded by the leaders of the richest and most powerful companies in history — but their dominance may yet be checkedJohn Thornhill (Financial Times)
No matter whether thats #ElectricCars, #CommunicationEquipment, #FighterJets or whatever, really.
They think the #world has no choice but to adapt to their ideas & demands, but oh boy they will look surprised when #blowback comes home. 😜
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2025/01/16/saab-gripen-sale-to-colombia-threatened-by-u-s-parts-veto/
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SAAB Gripen sale to Colombia threatened by U.S. parts veto
The U.S. may veto the use or sale of American-made components, systems, or military technology in Saab Gripen JAS 39 E/F jets intended for Colombia.Boyko Nikolov (BulgarianMilitary.com)
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/01/16/southern-africa-growing-authoritarianism-threatens-rights
Several governments across Southern Africa grew increasingly authoritarian and intolerant of dissent throughout 2024. Attacks on civic space and media have far-reaching implications…
#Africa #Authoritarianism #HumanRights #Intolerance #Attacks #CivicSpaces #Media #PoliticalPrisoners #Power #Competition #Journalists #GovernmentKillings #Displacement #BlockingAid #Discrimination #Policies #Fraud #Corruption
These systems of competition give rise to inequality, exploitation, poverty, injustice, oligarchy, violence, war, tyranny, and ecocide. And it’s all based on fictional stories with no real existence outside our own skulls.
Humanity has the ability to awaken from the dream of separation. Humans have been writing about this for thousands of years — that’s all Buddha was ever talking about. This potential has been sleeping within us this entire time, just waiting for the right moment to become activated."
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/humanity-must-awaken-from-the-dream
#Capitalism #Competition
Humanity Must Awaken From The Dream Of Separation
Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley):Caitlin Johnstone (Caitlin’s Newsletter)
Hearn and Bednar tell this story and explain all the ways that Canadian firms use their market power to reduce quality, raise prices, abuse workers and starve suppliers, even as they capture the government and the regulators who are supposed to be overseeing them.
The odd thing is that Canada has been in the antitrust game for a long time: Canada passed its first antitrust law in 1889, a year before the USA got around to inaugurating its trustbusting era with the passage of the Sherman Act. But despite this early start, Canada's ultra-rich have successfully used the threat of American corporate juggernauts to defend the idea of Made-in-Canada monopolies, as homegrown King Kongs that will keep the nation safe from Yankee Godzillas."
https://pluralistic.net/2024/12/05/ted-rogers-is-a-dope/#galen-weston-is-even-worse
#Canada #Antitrust #Competition #Monopolies
This is the image submitted. The #NLPA awards focus on natural and true to life editing - so, aside from the b+w conversion this image is as if you were there with me. No AI, no Photoshop.
Looking forward to seeing this printed in person 😍
#photography #awards #RealPhotosofRealPlaces #competition
https://www.channelnews.com.au/a-class-action-is-being-prepared-in-oz-against-ticketmaster-and-live-nation/
“We have been contacted by customers who are concerned that they have paid more than they should have for event tickets. We are investigating their concerns, including how ‘dynamic pricing’ is influencing the cost of tickets in Australia,” said James Naughton, Class Actions Partner at Gordon Legal.
“The focus of our investigation relates to whether any laws designed to protect consumers have been breached.”
#auslaw #auspol #consumerrights #competition
channelnews : A Class Action Is Being Prepared In Oz Against Ticketmaster and Live Nation
There are increasing number of voices calling on the ACCC to investigate the practices of the live music industry whose operators are being accused of monopolistic behaviour and efforts to maximise their profits at the expense of both consumers and a…www.channelnews.com.au
The chief executives of Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta and Microsoft posted supportive messages on social media on Wednesday, which stood in contrast to their more circumspect reaction to the results of the 2016 and 2020 elections. All of their companies have since faced significant regulatory probes and antitrust threats as part of a crackdown by Joe Biden’s Democratic administration.
They now stand to gain much from a more tech- and business-friendly attitude from Trump, if they can win over a mercurial politician who in the past has repeatedly clashed with what he considers a left-leaning constituency that has funded his opponents and censored him."
https://www.ft.com/content/79f87a7f-66b2-454e-8f58-8d5f535cce66
#USA #Trump #BigTech #Monopolies #Oligopolies #Competition #Antitrust
What Big Tech CEOs want from a second Trump presidency
Leaders of Silicon Valley’s giants hope for a more permissive attitude on deals, antitrust and AI in the next administrationHannah Murphy (Financial Times)
How to watch the commissioner hearings like a pro
Your step-by-step guide to the European election’s season finale.Max Griera (POLITICO)
Union tells inquiry consumer watchdog should investigate and accuses Live Nation and competitor TEG of anti-competitive behaviour. #competition #music #copyright
Promotion and ticketing company has faced scrutiny for years, particularly after it botched ticket sales to Taylor Swift’s Eras tour
#competition #antitrust #monopoly
Government supports massive penalty regime for Coles and Woolworths recommended in Emerson review
The federal government says it supports fines of up to 10 per cent of Coles' and Woolworths' annual revenue if they are found to be mistreating suppliers, as it begins to move on the supermarket giants.Jake Evans (ABC News)
Google loses monopoly case to Fortnite maker Epic Games
A jury found that the tech giant used illegal strategies to maintain its app store dominance.By Suranjana Tewari (BBC News)
The Internet Con
When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extraction.Verso
Senior public servants responsible for regulating Qantas accepted Chairman’s Lounge invitations
Public servants from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Civil Aviation and Safety Authority have accepted membership to Qantas’ invite-only Chairman’s Lounge, while their agencies were responsible for regulating the airline.Maani Truu (ABC News)