TechdirtTrump FTC Threatens Apple With A Fake Investigation Into Its Nonexistent ‘Liberal News Bias’
Henry FisherSection 5 Introduction | Go Incognito 5.1
Section 5 Introduction | Go Incognito 5.1
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Cory DoctorowOne interesting wrinkle to framing platform degradation as a failure to connect willing senders and receivers is that it places a whole host of conduct within the regulatory remit of the #FTC. #Section5 of the #FTCAct contains a broad prohibition against "unfair and deceptive" practices:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge
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Shifting the norms - having the conversations - is the tactic, but *getting shit done* is the *goal*. The Biden administration - a decidedly mixed bag - has some incredible, technically skilled, principled fighters who know how to get shit done. Take #LinaKhan, who revived the long-dormant #Section5 of the #FederalTradeAct, which gives her broad powers to ban "unfair and deceptive" practices:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge
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𝓛𝔁𝓼 / 𝔸𝕝𝕖𝕩𝕚𝕤 🏵🇪🇺💫#RowanAtkinson’s 2012 defence of free speech = his whole-hearted support for #ReformSection5 🇬🇧
Brief Context:
• insult construed as illegal under #1986PublicOrderAct
• the successful campaign achieved reform of #Section5 of Public Order Act
Bravo 🙌
https://youtu.be/BiqDZlAZygU
Note: the Public Order Act continues to serve an important purpose to protect from racial or religious hate speech (verbal, written, signage) that is threatening or abusive (amongst other aspects)
In full: Rowan Atkinson on free speech
Take #Section5 of the #FTCAct, which gives the Commission broad powers to prevent "unfair and deceptive" practices. Since the *1970s*, the FTC just acted like this didn't exist, even though it was right there all along, between Section 4 and Section 6.
Then, under the directorship of FTC chair #LinaKhan, Section 5 was rediscovered and mobilized, first to end the practice of #noncompete "agreements" for workers nationwide:
https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/antitrust-enforcers-to-ban-indentured
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Hypothetically there's another way to discipline Amazon's appetites as it gorges itself on all of us, buyer or seller: regulation. Much of Amazon's conduct falls under the broad terms "unfair and deceptive," which the #FTC has broad authority to prohibit and punish under #Section5 of the #FTCAct.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the-courage-to-govern/#whos-in-charge
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Consumer groups weren't alone in sounding the alarm over the deteriorating conditions in the airline sector. In 2022, dozens of state attorneys general - Democrats and Republicans - sent open letters to Buttigieg begging him to use his broad powers as Secretary of Transport to hold the airlines accountable.
What are those powers? Well, the big one is USC40 Section 41712(a), the "unfair and deceptive" authority modeled on #Section5 of the #FTCAct.
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