Protecting Competition in New and Emerging Technologies
Big Tech companies are expanding their market dominance. It's past time that regulators scrutinized these monopolies!
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Big Tech’s Coup
Foreign Affairs | Sep 26, 2024
Google files EU antitrust complaint over Microsoft’s cloud practices
The Verge | Sep 25, 2024
It’s time to stop the monopolization of generative AI.
Big Tech’s Takeover of Generative AI companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and others limits competition, jeopardizes consumer rights, privacy, and ethical AI advancement.
Our Mission
Support a robust and competitive technology ecosystem by opposing anti-competitive business practices and promoting the need for greater industry accountability.
Specifically, we oppose consolidation in the industry that undermines worker protections and employer accountability, threatens data privacy and security, encourages market concentration, and limits consumer choice.
About NextGen Competition
George Rakis
Executive Director
George Rakis is a long-time veteran of national politics and progressive advocacy. He has worked with environmental groups as Director of the Climate Action Campaign, the labor movement, and electoral politics.
As executive director, he's working to support a robust and competitive technology ecosystem that opposes anti-competitive business practices that undermine worker protections, threaten data privacy, and limit consumer choice.
Ending Bad Business Practices
Our work focuses on protecting consumers and employees while holding Big Tech accountable by shining a light on business practices that:
Violate consumer privacy
Limit consumer choice through industry consolidation
Hinder a worker’s ability to organize
Encourage and enable worker harassment
Empower dictators and despots
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Big Tech’s Coup
Foreign Affairs | Sep 26, 2024
- How Companies Seized Power From States—and How States Can Claw It Back
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Google files EU antitrust complaint over Microsoft’s cloud practices
The Verge | Sep 25, 2024
- Google isn’t happy with Microsoft’s cloud licensing terms for Windows Server on non-Azure cloud infrastructure.
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Fears grow about big tech guiding U.S. AI policy
TechTarget | Sep 23, 2024
- Apple joined a list of big tech companies voluntarily committing to responsible AI. But without regulation, there is no legal requirement for companies to meet those commitments.
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FTC chair Lina Khan explained how Americans lost their privacy protections to Big Tech
Business Insider | Sep 22, 2024
- FTC Chair Lina Khan has led an aggressive antitrust fight against large corporations. In a recent "60 Minutes" interview, she said Big Tech acquisitions have harmed Americans. Companies like Facebook acquired smaller ventures and stripped privacy protections, she said.
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The EU’s 10 biggest antitrust actions on tech
TechCrunch | Sep 21, 2024
- The U.S. innovates and the EU regulates, or so certain transatlantic punters love to harp. We’re not going to get embroiled in that noise here, but two things are clear: The bloc’s Single Market has its own particular set of rules, and quite a lot of U.S. tech giants have run afoul of European Union competition regulations over the past several decades. Make of that what you will.
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What the U.S. Has Argued in the Google Ad Tech Antitrust Trial
The New York Times | Sep 20, 2024
- As the government wraps up its case, it has built a picture of how Google has become dominant among companies that buy and sell ads online.
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FTC Chair Lina Khan Says Antitrust Regulations Help Small Businesses Too
Inc. | Sep 20, 2024
- Antitrust regulation isn't just about protecting consumers, Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said Thursday afternoon at the Fast Company Innovation Festival. It's also about giving small businesses a fighting chance.
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AI development is being hijacked by Big Tech and rich nations, UN report warns
Fortune | Sep 19, 2024
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) is often regarded as the modern-day equivalent of electricity, powering countless human interactions daily. However, startups and developing nations face a clear disadvantage as Big Tech companies and richer nations dominate the field, especially when it comes to two critical areas: training datasets and computational power.
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How Federal Trade Deals Threaten States’ Crackdowns on Big Tech
Governing | Sep 17, 2024
- The public likes what lawmakers around the country are doing, but the industry’s lobbyists are working hard to embed provisions into trade deals that would undermine much of the progress states have made.
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