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Big Tech companies are expanding their market dominance. It's past time that regulators scrutinized these monopolies!
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Biden’s Big Tech antitrust cases march ahead
The Washington Post | Oct 09, 2024
Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes)
Bloomberg | Oct 09, 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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Biden’s Big Tech antitrust cases march ahead
The Washington Post | Oct 09, 2024
- Halfway through President Joe Biden’s term, there was a sense that the federal government’s push to break up Big Tech might be fizzling out. Turns out it was just a slow burn.
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Lina Khan Is Just Getting Started (She Hopes)
Bloomberg | Oct 09, 2024
- Biden’s FTC chair has toughened merger oversight, taken on noncompetes and made the donor class crazy. She hints that there’s a lot more to come, if she’s given the chance.
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Will the DOJ really dismantle Google? Here’s what happens next.
Politico | Oct 09, 2024
- Biden’s competition cops want “historic” changes to Google — but judges, and presidential politics, could undercut their plans.
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Judge greenlights FTC’s antitrust suit against Amazon
The Verge | Oct 07, 2024
- The judge agreed with Amazon that some claims under state laws can’t move forward, however.
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We can’t wait on Big Tech to solve our local news crisis
The Hill | Oct 07, 2024
- As publishers of local newspapers, we join our media colleagues who want to be fairly compensated for the use of content we produce. But local news cannot rely on Big Tech alone to solve our industry’s ongoing financial crisis. It’s time to pursue policies that don’t rely exclusively on antitrust regulations to save local news.
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Big Tech has cozied up to nuclear energy
The Verge | Oct 05, 2024
- Major tech firms, in search of carbon pollution-free electricity for data centers, are helping to revive nuclear energy in the US.
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Google Antitrust Case Comes Too Late for Publishers
The Information | Oct 04, 2024
- Publishers are happy that the Department of Justice sued Google over its control of online display advertising. But some would have preferred to have seen the case brought five or six years ago—when the gap between what publishers and the tech giants generate from online ads was not as wide as it is today.
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Will America’s government try to break up Google?
The Economist | Oct 03, 2024
- Antitrust remedies that target its generative-AI ambitions are more likely
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Biden's FTC took on big tech, big pharma and more. What antitrust legacy will Biden leave behind?
WBUR | Oct 02, 2024
- Under the Biden Administration, the FTC and DOJ significantly stepped-up antitrust enforcement. Last year alone Biden’s regulators filed a record 50 antitrust enforcement actions. And mergers reached a 10-year low. Have Biden's antitrust actions helped consumers?
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