Cory Doctorow · @pluralistic
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This kind of gaslighting, where Google pisses in all our mouths and tells us it's raining, is the hallmark of a decrepit, arrogant, crapulent monopolist that needs to be shattered in the courts. Kudos to the DoJ for doing the people's business here - and kudos to DoJ boss for promising that he will *not* go into corporate law when he finishes his stint in government.

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Cory Doctorow · @pluralistic
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The work of enforcers like DoJ antitrust boss , chair , and chair is at the heart of : muscular, fearless deployment of existing regulatory authority to make life better for Americans.

Of course, "existing regulatory authority" isn't the last word. The judges filling stolen seats on the illegitimate invented the and have used it as a club to attack Biden's photocopier-kickers.

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
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Biden's ceding of antitrust policy to the left of the party, combined with disaffected GOP senators viewing Khan as their enemy's enemy, led to Khan's historic appointment as FTC Chair. In that position, she was joined by a slate of Biden trustbusters, including at the DOJ Antitrust Division, at the , and other important, skilled and principled fighters like (FTC), (FTC), (), and many others.

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But neither claim holds water. Far from being pie-in-the-sky idealists with no theory of change, the party's left is *incredibly* good at getting stuff done. Take the antitrust enforcers and , as well as the recently departed . They aren't mere idealists - they're *brilliant* tacticians and proceduralists who have figured out how to use their existing authority to do more than decades of their predecessors combined:

pluralistic.net/2022/10/18/adm

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The Biden administration is a weirdly perfect illustration of this "independence." The Biden admin is a kind of referee, doling out policies and appointemnts to its competing wings, without any coherence or consistency.

That's how you get *incredible* appointments like at the and at and at the .

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Until now. For the first time in two generations, the Biden administration has taken up the neglected, noble art of , blocking mergers and promising to break up the mergers we've already seen, through enforcers like at the DoJ Antitrust Division and at the :

eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/part

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Cory Doctorow's linkblog · @pluralistic
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On one hand, you have progressive appointments like at the and at the FTC, leaders who are determined to challenge and curb corporate power:

pluralistic.net/2022/01/10/see

On the other hand, you have deferential leaders like Pete Buttigieg, who fill their own staff with status quo counsel, and then let those timid corporate apologists run the show, leaving the substantial enforcement powers of a powerful agency to gather dust:

pluralistic.net/2023/01/10/the

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These three - , recently departed from the White House; at the FTC; and at the DOJ - wasted no time turning word into deed, taking on mergers, addressing anticompetitive conduct (like blocking and protecting ), and filing suit against abusive firms:

pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/res

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Nonilex · @Nonilex
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The lawsuit is a high-stakes test of the admin’s commitment to dismantling concentration in . It’s the first that the agency has brought against a under the leadership of division chief , a prominent adversary of companies including & .

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It's not just the FTC that recognizes the risks from rollups. , the 's top antitrust enforcer has raised alarms about private equity strategies that are "designed to hollow out or roll-up an industry and essentially cash out. That business model is often very much at odds with the law and very much at odds with the competition we’re trying to protect."

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