This is a common theme in Republican administrations dating back to presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. What you do is you break the government, make it very hard for the government to function, and then you loudly announce that the government can’t do anything.
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… as digital platforms. This possibility cannot be - 12882 as digital platforms. This possibility cannot be lightly discounted, considering the tremendous market power of these firms and their market cap, with the top five firms of the U.S. … - page 878
… was illustrated when, after a much-heralded investigation, antitrust regulators appointed by former President Barack Obama declined to sue Google in January 2013 for anticompetitive behavior. The FTC spent 19 months … - page 878
… the FTC’s economists successfully argued against initiating antitrust action against the company. This decision was based in large part on a series of … turned out to be wrong in several respects. For instance, according to press accounts, these economic experts … - page 878
… economic theory seems inadequate to the job of understanding Big Tech and predicting its behavior, empirical evidence is very … fact that most user data are proprietary, online markets change so quickly that econometric conclusions are often … - page 878
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