Posted on 12/24/2022 2:02:59 AM PST by blueplum
There’s bad news and there’s good news for Washington’s anti-monopoly movement.
The bad news is that Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has done precisely what many long feared he would: While rhetorically supporting two bipartisan antitrust bills targeting Big Tech for months, he effectively killed the effort by never bringing the legislative package for a vote on the Senate floor in the final days of the congressional term....
.....As a consolation, Schumer put an extra $85 million into the nation’s two antitrust enforcement agencies: $50 million to the Federal Trade Commission and $35 million to the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division...
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
The agencies targeting them? Aren’t our “agencies” working with Big Tech?
Regulatory capture is real. Anyone who doesn’t get this after Covid isn’t paying attention. Big Pharma owns Federal Big Public Health, and a whole lot more.
I loathe this smarmy little man.
The agencies won’t be targeting Big Tech.
Check out what the author of this wrote last year...
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2021/02/27/a-free-market-wont-self-correct-the-disinformation-problem/
Is it true that Schumer is Nazi-speak for dog crap? Just asking.
Chuck knows how to shake money trees.
Different agencies, different reasons.
Some agencies what to know more about us, other agencies serve to fill the coffers of Democrats via soft coercion.
Why kill their Golden Goose?
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