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Tim Wu
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Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Latest book THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025) https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/ .. more

Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu is a Taiwanese-American legal scholar who served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy at the United States from 2021 to 2023. He is also a professor of law at Columbia University and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is known legally and academically for significant contributions to antitrust and communications policy, coining the phrase "network neutrality" in his 2003 law journal article, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. In the late 2010s, Wu was a leading advocate for an antitrust lawsuit directed at the breakup of Facebook. .. more

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Netflix? Paramount? They are both terrible for Warner Bros
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/o...
Opinion | Netflix? Paramount? They’re Both Terrible for Warner Bros.
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The point of having merger guidelines and structural presumptions is to discourage firms from attempting illegal mergers. Unfortunately Trump has given everyone the impression that they can get their deal through with kickbacks and ass-kissing

The law should send a simple message: Warner Bros, if you want to sell, maybe try finding a buyer who is not a direct competitor?

In a sign of how times have changed, in 1959 economists Turner and Keysen proposed a commission to breakup firms "where, for 5 years or more, one company has accounted for 50 percent or more of annual sales in the market, or four or fewer companies have accounted for 80 percent of sales”

My take on the ruling in the antitrust case against Facebook (Meta) - gift link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...
Opinion | The Bad Reasoning in the Meta Antitrust Ruling Isn’t Even the Worst Part
www.nytimes.com