This will sadly be the end of FCC/FTC and all the antitrust efforts that were graining steam over the last few years.
If you want a simple example of how important good regulators are, look at the NTIA / DoC's handling of the .com cooperative agreement in 2018. The US gave up control of the most important technical asset on the planet and no one even knows it happened :-(
And the DoJ, who recently sued RealPage for engaging in a price fixing scheme that has played a large role in the rise in rents across the country.
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Now it's up to see if the world will decouple form the US monopolies.
they will probably merge FTC back into DOJ
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> Lina Khan's policies were very harmful for the tech sector
As they should! It's quite literally the whole reason they exist.
Email unsubscribe links have worked well, and click-to-cancel hopefully can too! The only opponents of these policies are massive companies who rely on predatorial dark patterns. Everyone with a brain should support these "wasteful policies" because they benefit consumers.
I absolutely LOVE having one link to instantly stop being emailed from mailing lists, and I can't be happier for click-to-cancel and related legislation.
"oh no, big tech company XYZ will make 0.0001% less money this year!!!" is the energy you're giving
Please make your substantive points thoughtfully, and omit name-calling, as the site guidelines ask:
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The FTC would be well within their duties to obliterate every single tech company in existence
Would your arguments be any different if you switched them arbitrarily?
Why can't monopolies instead be "very harmful for the tech sector", and Lina Khan's policies be "not a big deal"?
Wouldn't that have already happened, given that he was already president for four years?
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