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    Fight Over Trump Facebook Ban Called 'Huge Distraction' From Deeper Issues With Big Tech

    By obsessing about the former president's online status, warns one digital rights advocate, "we are utterly missing the point."

    Jessica Corbett
    Jan 26, 2023

    Fight for the Future director Evan Greer argued Wednesday that the battle over whether former President Donald Trump should be banned from major social media platforms like Facebook is "a huge distraction" from broader Big Tech conversations that are urgently needed.

    "Discussions about online content moderation and what policies are needed to ensure human rights, free expression, and safety are some of the most important and consequential societal debates in human history," Greer said in a statement. "When we center these debates about specific moderation decisions, especially ones involving high-profile, wealthy, politically powerful individuals like Donald Trump, we are utterly missing the point."

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    DOJ Suit Against Google Heralded as Among 'Most Important Antitrust Cases' in US History

    DOJ Suit Against Google Heralded as Among 'Most Important Antitrust Cases' in US History

    "Never before has a single private institution concentrated so much power and control over so many corners of our nation's political economy," said one anti-monopoly expert.

    Jessica Corbett
    Jan 24, 2023

    Anti-monopoly advocates on Tuesday praised the Biden administration and eight states for launching a federal antitrust lawsuit that could break up Google, which is accused of illegally dominating the digital advertising market.

    "Competition in the ad tech space is broken, for reasons that were neither accidental nor inevitable," states the complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

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    California's New Antitrust Suit Shows How the State Can Lead on Reining In Amazon

    By launching a first-of-its-kind antitrust lawsuit against Amazon this September, California is proving once again that it can take lead from D.C. to advance progressive policy.

    Aidan Smith
    Dec 15, 2022

    California has been a policy trendsetter for decades, leading the way nationally on issues ranging from environmental policy to online privacy. At a time when gridlock and aggressive industry lobbying threatens antitrust reform in Washington, California can and should lead the way on holding predatory monopolists like Amazon accountable.

    As we collectively await the litigation process in this historic lawsuit, Sacramento leaders need to make modernizing state antitrust law a top legislative priority.

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