How to Hide a $2 Trillion Antitrust Trial

wow. an amazing 325 page google strategy document quietly unsealed buried in google antitrust docket. It's gonna take a long thread but I have pulled out the gems. It's from 2017 planning, no doubt Google will just say these were only ideas but many will look very familiar. /1 https://t.co/aQzSlKQQlU

Faced with opaque systems operated by wealthy global companies, it is hardly surprising that many assume the lack of transparency exists to serve the interests of technology elites and not users. In the long run, people are only going to feel comfortable with these algorithmic systems if they have more visibility into how they work and then have th... See more

The changeover has been absolutely stark, and it’s accelerating. Many of my sources in the competition policy world are giving me the same message, which is that this is the most extraordinary month they have ever seen in antitrust.

There are the big fights, the cases against Google and Amazon, the suits against private equity and meat price-fixing... See more

For a time, the impact of technology was contained within a narrow segment of the economy. The only ones to be unnerved were executives in the advertising and media industries. The Napster trial was the first showdown between a fast-growing startup and incumbents dominating an old industry. Then Google began its rise from being a better search engi

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The last round is not the permanent price, and being private does not mean you get a free pass on scrutiny.