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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 4h

We're just one week away from our Future of Democracy event in Brussels with @article19.bsky.social. RSVP for the live-stream here 👇 and mark your calendars.

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The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI — Open Markets Institute

Join The Open Markets Institute and ARTICLE 19 on October 15th & 16th for a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates to discuss the direct and growi...

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 8h

One thing the Luddites understood is that the advancement of technology has to be managed democratically, with special mind to preventing concentrations of power.

CJL Director @courtneyr.bsky.social applies lessons from history to the debate over regulating AI. www.brookings.edu/articles/we-...

We should all be Luddites | Brookings

Courtney Radsch discusses rehabilitating the idea of Luddites as people concerned with the control and impact of technology.

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Open Future @openfuture.bsky.social · 13h

🗳️ Join us next week for "The Future of Democracy" conference, organized by @openmarkets.bsky.social and @article19.bsky.social . Find us in the panel on the "Role of digital infrastructure in strengthening EU democracy."

In-person or online attendance: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI — Open Markets Institute

Join The Open Markets Institute and ARTICLE 19 on October 15th & 16th for a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates to discuss the direct and growi...

www.openmarketsinstitute.org

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Courtney R @courtneyr.bsky.social · 5d

My statement on this act of censorship, capitulation and perversion by the world's most powerful #BigTech companies. www.linkedin.com/posts/radsch...

Google, Apple drop ICE agent tracking apps from stores after Trump admin complaints | Courtney Radsch, PhD

In yet another act of censorship, capitulation and perversion, both Apple and Google have succumbed to pressure from the Trump administration to remove ICE tracking apps from the app stores they monop...

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 7d

This is exactly right. The world is on the brink of platform authoritarianism, and tech oligarchs are working overtime to capture this administration as well as the opposition.

But it's not too late for Americans to take back our democracy from Silicon Valley.

The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 8d

Trump 2.0 has unleashed Silicon Valley’s efficiency fetishism on the U.S. government, with the end goal of transforming the country into a kind of corporation, steered by a kind of CEO, powered by private firms not beholden to the messiness of democracy.

E Pluribus Uh Oh | Leo Kim

“Pro-democracy” initiatives coming out of Silicon Valley are a sleight of hand. Platform authoritarianism is the end goal.

thebaffler.com

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Center for Journalism and Liberty @cjl4news.bsky.social · 12d

During the remedies phase of the #googleadtech case this week, we learned from witnesses why breaking up Google's monopoly over digital ads matters so much for the future of digital news. @checkmyads.org shares more: www.usvgoogleads.com/trial-update...

US v Google

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12d

The European Commission is weighing whether the Digital Markets Act adequately covers integrated AI or if explicit inclusion is needed. Tech Policy Press fellow
@megafreda.bsky.social explores the growing push to bring these systems firmly under its scope.

Will the EU Designate AI Under the Digital Markets Act? | TechPolicy.Press

Megan Kirkwood unpacks the growing momentum to bring integrated AI applications under the scope of Europe's Digital Markets Act.

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 12d

Glad to see it ---> www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

US justice department to examine rising cost of farm inputs, says farm secretary

The U.S. Department of Justice antitrust division will work with the Department of Agriculture to look closely at the rising cost of agricultural inputs like fertilizer and seeds under a memorandum of understanding signed on Thursday, said Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins.

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ProMarket @promarket.bsky.social · 13d

NEW: @maxvonthun.bsky.social and Claire Lavin (@openmarkets.bsky.social) argue that the European Commission must revise its merger guidelines to emphasize how competition policy can protect goals beyond prices, including innovation, security, and democracy.

The EU Must Revise Its Merger Guidelines To Strengthen Innovation, Security, and Democracy - ProMarket

Max von Thun and Claire Lavin argue that the European Commission must revise its merger guidelines to emphasize how competition policy can protect goals beyond prices, including innovation, security, and democracy. This will create a more prosperous European Union.

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 13d

"Each big tech company needs a global monopoly in AI to sustain their success and market value. They are not all going to get one."

Important set of warnings from Roger McNamee in @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

AI investors are in for a rude awakening | Roger McNamee

There is a huge gap between investment and revenue from LLMs. Investors wrongly assume everyone will be a winner

www.theguardian.com

Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 14d

A few years ago, Open Markets & @cjl4news.bsky.social
published a history of U.S. media policy, how it's shaped our information environments -- & recommended a path forward. Re-sharing it here now: www.journalismliberty.org/publications...

Report | How to Fund Independent News Media in the 21st Century — Center for Journalism & Liberty

The Center for Journalism & Liberty’s flagship report offers guidance on how competition policy principles can help restore sustainable and independent news media.

www.journalismliberty.org

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 14d

It's amazing to see people respond to the censorship of #Kimmel and #Colbert.

Now, we want to help people understand that the culture of deregulation going back to the 1980s got us today's media environment: highly consolidated & susceptible to anti-democratic control.

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 14d

The time couldn't be more urgent for a convening on "The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power..."

Join us & @article19.bsky.social, 15-16 October, in Brussels or via livestream: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, Sovereignty, and Power in the Age of Platforms and AI — Open Markets Institute

Join The Open Markets Institute and ARTICLE 19 on October 15th & 16th for a convening of high-level leading thinkers, lawmakers, technologists, and advocates to discuss the direct and growi...

www.openmarketsinstitute.org

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 14d

If you're wondering why major media companies are folding to Trump administration censorship (see cancellations of Kimmel, Colbert), take a look at their plans to grow even larger and more powerful. @poynterinstitute.bsky.social www.poynter.org/business-wor...

Media consolidation is shaping who folds under political pressure — and who could be next - Poynter

ABC sidelining Jimmy Kimmel and Paramount canceling Stephen Colbert underscore how corporate interests weigh on free speech in the Trump era

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 15d

Our Food Program manager @clairek.bsky.social spoke with @marketplace.org about the Farm Bill and how the once-bipartisan process for passing it has changed ---> www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

This year, punctuality is the least of the farm bill’s problems

The sweeping legislation that funds everything from agricultural subsidies to nutrition assistance and conservation program is two years overdue for a full refresh.

www.marketplace.org

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 16d

The US Department of Justice and Google will face off today in federal court to argue about what remedies the court should impose to unwind Google’s monopoly in the ad tech market. Karina Montoya from the Center for Journalism & Liberty at the Open Markets Institute breaks down what’s at stake:

DOJ vs Google: Back to Court for Remedies to Break Digital Ads Monopoly | TechPolicy.Press

Without both behavioral and structural remedies, nothing will be achieved to prevent future illegal conduct, writes Karina Montoya.

www.techpolicy.press

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 16d

"The Court could override Congress's decision to create an independent FTC on specious constitutional grounds but until it takes that step Commissioner Slaughter has a right to her job.”

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 16d

OMI legal director Sandeep Vaheesan condemns the SCOTUS ruling on FTC Cmsr. Slaughter here: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

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Claire Kelloway @clairek.bsky.social · 20d

Kraft Heinz lost 60% of its stock value since merging, and now it wants to split in search of growth.

Getting too big and PE cost-cutting set Kraft Heinz back, but it still dominates many segments of the grocery store, and this split won’t change that.
substack.com/home/post/p-...

After a Rough Decade, Kraft Heinz Splits Up

Turns out bigger isn’t always better.

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 20d

Where the federal government fails to act, the states will. app.publicnewsservice.org/story/ma-law...

MA lawmakers consider reining in corporate monopolies

Massachusetts lawmakers are considering legislation to strengthen state protections against corporate monopolies. The bill would amend the state’s antitrust law, creating new legal standards to crack ...

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 20d

Important read from @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com:

Alexis Goldstein @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social · 20d

In 2021, I warned that “family offices”—investment firms that manage the $ of tech titans & other billionaires—have more assets combined ($6TN) than all of private equity ($4TN).

Unlike PE, the public has NO insight into where they put that money. Zero.

www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/o...

Opinion | These Invisible Whales Could Sink the Economy (Published 2021)

www.nytimes.com

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 20d

“FCC Chair Carr just kicked the Trump Administration’s campaign against American liberty into overdrive."

Read Barry Lynn's full response to Disney ABC pulling #Kimmel: www.openmarketsinstitute.org/publications...

Open Markets Executive Director Barry Lynn Responds to Disney ABC’s Decision to Pull Kimmel — Open Markets Institute

Barry Lynn responded to news that Disney's ABC is indefinitely pulling down “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

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Center for Journalism and Liberty @cjl4news.bsky.social · 20d

CJL Director @courtneyr.bsky.social joined the @dawnnews.tv DigiPod team to discuss the real world harms caused by our reliance on "self-regulation" from the makers of AI chatbots.

Catch the full conversation here: youtu.be/Wt_sbumFGPo?...

AI Chatbots Causing Real-World Harm: What About Big Tech Accountability? | Dawn News English

YouTube video by DawnNews English

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 22d

Through his work with Open Markets, Vaheesan
has played a major role in helping the legal community & policymakers relearn the power of antitrust law - and how it can be used to serve the people & protect democracy.

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Open Markets Institute @openmarkets.bsky.social · 22d

Congratulations to Sandeep Vaheesan for being honored as an @epic.org Champion of Freedom.

epic.org/sept15/

EPIC Champions of Freedom 2025

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