Disney managed to get a carve-out for theme parks in a social media bill in Florida.
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What Amazon’s Purchase of MGM Is Really About
The company wants to control pricing on everything, and funnel as many transactions to itself as possible. Here’s how the MGM deal does that.
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Chris Coons Working to Install Business-Friendly Candidate for Key Patent Position
The Delaware senator wants a say in the next director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and claims to have a deal with the White House.
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Congress’s Strange Bedfellows Fighting Big Tech
Coming from two different perspectives, there’s an emerging consensus on blunting the market power of digital platforms. Now the parties have to legislate.
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AT&T Wants Backsies
The telecom giant had a great idea to tie up content and distribution networks under one roof. Turned out it wasn’t so great.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Capitalism and the Caring Economy
The entire caregiving sector needs to be separated from the commercial economy. Otherwise, we pay exorbitant costs for inadequate services and abuse workers and patients alike.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Biden Proposes Government Actually Try to Create Broadband Competition
The broadband proposal in the American Jobs Act prioritizes allowing utilities and co-ops to provide a public option to compete with telecom monopolies. This would be a critical step.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Corporate Merger Aims to Build a Water Privatization Giant
Veolia and Suez plan a $15.4 billion deal that would create the largest private water firm in the world.
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Islands in the Stream
Musicians are in peril, at the mercy of giant monopolies that profit off their work.
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Big Tech’s Bullying Campaigns
Faced for the first time with actual pressure from regulators and law enforcement, tech companies have responded aggressively.