Big Tech's Paid Advocates Redirect Antitrust Efforts Against Smaller Companies

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The Biden Administration’s FTC and DOJ have signaled an aggressive antitrust strategy against Big Tech, but there are growing concerns that the efforts are being redirected, not against monopolies but against smaller companies trying to compete with them.

Under Biden, FTC Chair Lina Khan and Justice Department antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter are largely against Big Tech from a competition standpoint —FTC Chair Lina Khan

Big Tech has been attempting to turn the nascent antitrust efforts to its advantage, by redirecting the progressive left’s efforts to target companies and causes that do them no damage or help them, particularly on issues like “net neutrality” and intellectual property. An illustrative example is a recent letter by a Google-funded professor and think tank to Assistant AG Kanter demanding antitrust enforcement against relatively small companies. The letter is described as being signed by “28 former government enforcement officials, professors, and public interest advocates.” Iton the SSRN page for Alex Moss of the Public Interest Patent Law Institute and Professor Michael Carrier of Rutgers Law School, who was also an advisor to Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign.

The Public Interest Patent Law Institute is an obscure organization with Moss as just one of two listed staff members. However, Moss also

 

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“Kash Patel appeared Thursday after the Justice Department agreed to grant him immunity from prosecution for his testimony and after a federal judge in Washington entered a sealed order to that effect.”

If the destruction of small business and promotion of China corporations during Covid didn’t alert you to this trend, you’re blind

Leave it to a $5 Trillion gov't to F things up. The bigger the gov't, the worst the problem

Damn shame how the big companies treat One America News.

A socialist President trying to eliminate small businesses, no surprise there.

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