Daniel Hanley

@danielahanley
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Senior Legal Analyst at the Open Markets Institute.
Opinions are my own.
Bloghttps://danielhanley.substack.com/
Daniel Hanley2d ago
Last week, I had the privilege of speaking to the Harvard Law School Antitrust Association. I argued that corporations control our lives with impunity, & that antitrust law is vital to tackling this problem & enhancing the public's economic & political liberty. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6434242
Daniel HanleyFeb 19
I am immensely excited and grateful for the opportunity to speak at Harvard Law School on March 11. I will be discussing how antitrust is shapes power and democracy. If you are a current HLS student, please come to the event and say hello.
https://hls.harvard.edu/events/the-role-of-antitrust-law-from-technocratic-to-democratic/
The Role of Antitrust Law: From Technocratic to Democratic - Harvard Law School

HLSAA invites you a to a lunch talk with Daniel Hanley, Senior Legal Analyst of Open Markets Institute. Lunch will be provided. Daniel will discuss how antitrust law influences our democracy. Antitrust is often treated as a technical area of law, but at its core, it is about power—who holds it, how it is exercised, […]

Harvard Law School
Daniel HanleyJan 21

Yet another letter from members of congress urging the FTC and DOJ to enforce the Robinson-Patman Act. Good!
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/grassley-rounds-colleagues-push-doj-ftc-to-renew-robinson-patman-act-enforcement-protect-small-and-medium-sized-businesses-from-economic-discrimination

(this is, by my count, the fifth letter from lawmakers advocating for RPA enforcement).

Grassley, Rounds, Colleagues Push DOJ, FTC to Renew Robinson-Patman Act Enforcement, Protect Small and Medium-Sized Businesses From Economic Discrimination | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

WASHINGTON – Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Mike Rounds...

Daniel HanleyJan 2

Katharina Pistor’s new book The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It is fantastic and a must read.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300282801/the-law-of-capitalism-and-how-to-transform-it/

The Law of Capitalism and How to Transform It

A fascinating study of the legal underpinnings of capitalism, reasons why the system must be transformed, and actions we can take   Even though capitalism h...

Yale University Press
Daniel HanleyDec 8
A good heuristic to determine if antitrust scholarship is worth reading is if there is a favorable citation to Senator Sherman's quote about not tolerating "a king over...the necessaries of life." 21 Cong. Rec. 2457 (1890).
Daniel HanleyNov 29

Given the recent Epic Games ruling and controlling law, Google’s (attempted) move to kill all alternative methods of installing apps on Android and to require all applications to go through its exclusive system would violate antitrust laws.

https://tuta.com/blog/google-wants-to-kill-android-freedom

Google wants to kill Android freedom: Say Goodbye to installing independent apps | Tuta

Google's plans have the potential to stop you from downloading independent apps and destroy platforms like F-Droid.

Tuta
Daniel HanleyNov 12
Corporations want our entire society to bend to their will. Delaware gave corporations basically everything just short of complete control and has an entire legislative apparatus devoted to appeasement—and that's apparently just not enough. https://www.wsj.com/opinion/why-coinbase-is-leaving-delaware-for-texas-3a6c34a3
Daniel HanleyNov 1
FYI. We don’t have to accept efficiency as a synonym for firing workers. We can block/limit job-cutting strategies and incentivize firms to pursue efficiency built on skill and human input.
Daniel HanleyOct 29

I think the AWS outage is a warning shot. It’s clear the cloud must be regulated as a public utility and Signal must be updated to support decentralized, user-operated servers to break free from dominant cloud providers.

What do others think?
From: @Mer__edith
https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/115445701583902092

Meredith Whittaker (@[email protected])

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

Mastodon
Daniel HanleyOct 28
Meredith WhittakerOct 27

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/