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Walmart, Kroger, and Dollar Store didn't beat local grocers through competition. They bought politicians to rig the rules.

Millions of Americans now live in food deserts. The antitrust law to fix it is still on the books — we just stopped enforcing it in 1980.

Who's ready to dust it off?

#FoodDeserts #CorporateGreed #MonopolyPower

https://jimhightower.substack.com/p/why-should-we-allow-food-monopolies-6b9

Why Should We Allow Food Monopolies? Let’s Bust The System!

Massive retail chains like Walmart, Kroger, and Dollar Store have crushed thousands of local grocers. This has left millions of Americans living in “food deserts.”

Jim Hightower's Lowdown

lemon Jan 30

SpaceX Reportedly Weighs Mergers with Tesla or xAI Ahead of IPO

https://ground.news/article/spacex-reportedly-weighs-mergers-with-tesla-or-xai-ahead-of-ipo_1a170c?utm_source=mobile-app&utm_medium=newsroom-share

SpaceX Reportedly Weighs Mergers with Tesla or xAI Ahead of IPO

SpaceX is reportedly discussing a possible merger with Tesla or alternatively with xAI ahead of a planned mid-2026 IPO, according to people familiar with the matter.

Ground News

PPC Land Jan 2

Federal judge blocks Nielsen's controversial radio ratings policy: A federal court has barred Nielsen from enforcing a contested pricing policy that radio giant Cumulus Media argued illegally leverages the measurement company's monopoly power over radio audience data. https://ppc.land/federal-judge-blocks-nielsens-controversial-radio-ratings-policy/ #RadioIndustry #Nielsen #CumulusMedia #MonopolyPower #AudienceData

Federal judge blocks Nielsen's controversial radio ratings policy

A federal court has barred Nielsen from enforcing a contested pricing policy that radio giant Cumulus Media argued illegally leverages the measurement company's monopoly power over radio audience data.

PPC Land

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Ecologia Digital Nov 23

#TimWu: "Tuesday’s ruling is clearly wrong on the merits. The government charged that #Meta, then called Facebook, broke the law when it bought up its competitors Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014. Judge #Boasberg threw out the case by concluding that Meta lacks #monopolypower now, when the relevant question should have been whether it had monopoly power at the time."

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/opinion/meta-facebook-antitrust-ruling.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3U8.l1Xq.wbllP1qO6pz8&smid=url-share

Opinion | How Can Anyone Seriously Doubt Meta Is a Monopoly?

All you need is common sense.

The New York Times

The-14 Aug 6, 2025

The Competition Act favoured concentration from the start
#Canada #Trump #USA #CompetitionPolicy #Competition #MonopolyPower #Economy #CompetitionAct #Labour #CorporateConcentration #MarketReform #EconomicJustice #ConsumerRights #Innovation #Antitrust
https://the-14.com/the-competition-act-favoured-concentration-from-the-start/

The Competition Act favoured concentration from the start | The-14

Rethinking our trade relationship with the U.S. should be paired with reform to our competition policy. The Competition Act must be understood in the context of Mulroney’s efforts at trade liberalization. The government had plans to increase free trade between Canada and the U.S. and felt that allowing further corporate concentration was an important part

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Ecologia Digital Aug 17, 2024

"The bottom line, concludes the Judge: “the key question then is this: Do #Google’s exclusive distribution contracts reasonably appear capable of significantly contributing to maintaining Google’s #monopolypower in the general search services market? The answer is ‘yes.’” (p.216). #Amen.

A better remedy: individual points of control"

https://techpolicy.press/google-is-a-monopolist-wrong-and-right-ways-to-think-about-remedies

“Google is a Monopolist” – Wrong and Right Ways to Think About Remedies | TechPolicy.Press

What potential remedies now stand a chance of establishing competition in search? Cristina Caffara and Robin Berjon consider the question.

Tech Policy Press

🦉Nýktıméηı ❌👑Apr 2, 2024

Not so long ago
Nazi Town, USA | Full Documentary
American Experience | PBS
#AmericanFascism #Whiteness #WhiteChristianNationalism #AntiDemocratic #Illiberal #MonopolyPower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9HmV_-EE8g

Nazi Town, USA | Full Documentary | AMERICAN EXPERIENCE | PBS

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Kevin Dominik Korte Jan 15, 2024

POLITICO has a fascinating article about the monopoly of power in AI and how the large cloud platforms vertically integrate their power. However, the conclusion calls for a public cloud option. In an age of government surveillance, we don't need to give them additional power over AI and cloud computing. I'd rather see the promotion of open-source options and data migration capabilities as integral to a more distributed AI landscape.

#AI #opensource #monopolypower

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/01/15/sitaraman-artificial-intelligence-regulation-00134873

Opinion | It’s Time for the Government to Regulate AI. Here’s How.

AI may be new, but the regulatory hurdle it presents is classic.

POLITICO

LobbyControl Tech Jun 27, 2023

Today, the German Federal Court of Justice deliberated on tougher competition control measures for Amazon. The outcome could have significant implications for the Tech giant's market power.

In a first assessment, the court found the law to be constitutional. An important signal in breaking up big tech's #monopolypower. However, the final decision is still pending. #breakupbigtech

https://www.zeit.de/news/2023-06/27/bgh-verhandelt-ueber-haertere-wettbewerbskontrolle-von-amazon?utm_referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F