Big tech is a threat to our country.

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spoofing retailers, taking orders and cashing checks, according to a FL lawsuit

Google uses “bait-and-switch” tactics to get customers to place takeout or pickup orders through “new, unauthorized, and deceptively branded webpages,” according to the lawsuit, filed on behalf of Left Field Holdings, a restaurant company that runs Lime Fresh Mexican Grill franchises. On those pages, customers are prompted with large buttons to order with food delivery companies like GrubHub, DoorDash, or Seamless.

“Google never bothered to obtain permission from the restaurants to sell their products online,” the lawsuit says. “Google purposefully designed its websites to appear to the user to be offered, sponsored, and approved by the restaurant, when they are not—a tactic, no doubt, employed by Google to increase orders and clicks.”

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...-lawsuit-says/

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Unwinding all those old gigamergers is a tall order. It took 68 years to break up AT&T, from the first an rust action until the actual breakup in 1982. IBM spent 12 years in an rust and emerged intact, thanks to its ability to outspend the entire DoJ on an rust lawyers for every one of those years.

https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/17/s...ger-capitalism

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https://pluralistic.net/2022/03/17/s...ger-capitalism

the oligarchy's bribes to Congress and the Judiciary create an impregnable barrier

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Maryland AG Katie Curran O'Malley

GB: In terms of collaboration, there’s been remarkable bipartisan overlap among state AGs in taking on monopolies, particularly in investigations and lawsuits against Facebook and Google. Why are you the best candidate to engage in those bipartisan efforts?


KO: Throughout my 30 years—being in the state’s attorney’s office for the first 10 and then a judge for 20 years—I have been able to work as a mediator on so many issues. And even as a prosecutor, it’s not all about just putting somebody in jail. It’s about working out solutions and having an attorney general who’s been in courtrooms, worked across the board to come up with settlements as a judge, and mediate cases. I feel as though I’m the best person for that because of the years of experience I’ve had in courtrooms.


GB: A lot of people think of this as a second Gilded Age, with the potential for it to be a second Progressive Era and take on these companies through an rust work. How do you see the next five to 10 years shaping up in terms of the opportunity for state AGs?


KO: I think it’s a really, really good opportunity because everyone can get behind this. There’s been so much divisiveness in our politics over the past decade. But when it comes to how harmful the effects of the Big Tech companies have been, I think it’s bipartisan.

The voters are on the side of, “Let’s rein it in. This is too much. We need to get control of this now.” I have a feeling that we’re going to see a lot more changes and a lot more laws from the states, and not waiting for the federal government

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/0...rporate-power/

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"shadowbanned"

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Calling cuck good again

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Calling cuck good again

II posted one humorous meme. By contrast, you've dogged Blake grimly and monotonously for a decade. Hundreds of instances.

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Big tech wins again.

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II posted one humorous meme. By contrast, you've dogged Blake grimly and monotonously for a decade. Hundreds of instances.

You're so full of bro.

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nm

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Wow man you sure did show up Elon... Imagine you thinking your little meme about a delusional dude who pretends to be a woman sleeping with Elon's ex is really going to get under his skin.

You and the others are such pussies.

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"shadowbanned"

smh big tech censoring free speech

hopefully a multibillionaire hero like george soros can buy it and save the internet

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Wow man you sure did show up Elon... Imagine you thinking your little meme about a delusional dude who pretends to be a woman sleeping with Elon's ex is really going to get under his skin.

You and the others are such pussies.

koriwhat: i have trans friends and respect their life choices and treat them with respect

also koriwhat: delusional dude who pretends to be a woman

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koriwhat: i have trans friends and respect their life choices and treat them with respect

also koriwhat: delusional dude who pretends to be a woman

What's wrong exactly with what I said? There's something wired wrong in their brains but that doesn't mean I hate, dislike, or want to shun them. What's your gripe exactly; is it because I still respect those I know and those I don't just have to earn my respect like any other person?

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SR21 is big mad I don't respect they delusions.

That's your pronoun(s) right?

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A three-person panel of federal appeals court judges is letting a Texas law aimed at punishing social media companies for alleged anti-conservative bias go into effect for now.


In a ruling late Wednesday, the panel stayed a district court injunction that had paused the law while the judges consider an appeal of the lower court's move.


The decision, which was supported by two unnamed judges and was not immediately published with the court's reasoning, comes after a Monday hearing in which the jurists appeared to struggle with basic tech concepts, including whether Twitter counts as a website.

https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/t...s-law-proceeds

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https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87...l/HB00020S.htm

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"Watching porn and making death threats are self-care"

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Elon Musk seems to think being free to be a jerk to other people (he is) should be free of social consequences (it isn't).

Just another right wing snowflake.

One of the more frustrating things about the various “debates” regarding “free speech” lately, is how little they are actually about free speech. Quite often, they are actually about people who are quite upset about having to face social consequences for their own free speech. But facing social consequences has always been part of free speech. Indeed, it’s part of the vaunted “marketplace of ideas.” If people think your ideas aren’t worth , they may ignore or shun you… or encourage others to do the same.

Over at The Bulwark, Prof. Nicholas Grossman has a really good article exploring Elon Musk’s attempt at reframing the debate over free speech. It is well worth reading. The crux of the argument that Grossman makes (in great detail that you should go read to have it all make sense) is that when you break down what Musk actually seems to be thinking about free speech, his definition hews quite similarly to what a lot of trolls think free speech means: the right to be a total asshole without consequence.

The article highlights what many of us have said before (disclaimer, it does link to some of my writing on the subject), that the real underlying question is not actually about free speech, but where society should draw the line on what is, and what is not, acceptable in public company. And that’s really what this is all about. Free speech, as a concept, has to fall back on whether or not the government suppresses speech. For all the talk about social consequences of free speech, or whether or not there is a “culture of free speech” or “principles of free speech,” everyone has some level of internal voice that notes what kind of speech they feel goes too far for polite company — even if they don’t think such speech should be illegal.
But, then, the question becomes, if there is some speech that I, personally, don’t wish to associate with, should others be forced to do so? And that’s where the debates over content moderation actually live. In that space that says “where should the line be drawn” for what is acceptable and what is not. And when you look closely at the actual debate, it always comes down to “I want to be a disrespectful asshole to people I don’t like, and I don’t want to face any consequences for it.”

https://www.techdirt.com/2022/05/20/...in-an-asshole/

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Google, Meta in the crosshairs of the US Congress

A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Compe ion and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act on Thursday. This bipartisan andbicameral legislation would forbid any company with more than $20 billion in digital advertising revenue — that’s Google and Meta, basically — from owning multiple parts of the digital advertising chain. Google would have to choose between being a buyer or a seller or running the ad exchange between the two. It currently owns all three parts, and has been dogged by allegations, which it denies, that it uses that power to unfairly manipulate that market to its own advantage.


“This lack of compe ion in digital advertising means that monopoly rents are being imposed upon every website that is ad-supported and every company — small, medium, or large — that relies on internet advertising to grow its business,” Sen. Lee said in a statement. “It is essentially a tax on thousands of American businesses, and thus a tax on millions of American consumers.”

https://www.vox.com/recode/23132580/...oid-mobile-ads

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