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Douglas Farrar

@douglaslfarrar
14 posts
2026-02-13
Amid grotesque pay-to-play by the Trump administration, the DOJ has now removed its AAG for merger control. Slater knows what really happened with HPE Juniper and Live Nation, and likely much more. She should speak out now before she's subpoenaed by a Democratic House.
2026-02-13 View on X
Axios

US DOJ antitrust chief Gail Slater says she is leaving, in a departure viewed as a victory for tech giants over some of MAGA's more populist voices

2025-12-06
This deal appears to clearly violate basic principles of antitrust law. The #1 streamer merging with the #3 streamer, with all sorts of other implications for markets like theaters. Over to Trump's DOJ....
2025-12-06 View on X
Game Developer

WBD confirms that Warner Bros. Games will be acquired by Netflix along with its wider streaming and television business

A Warner Bros. spokesperson has confirmed the video game division will be acquired by Netflix alongside its wider streaming and television business.

This deal appears to clearly violate basic principles of antitrust law. The #1 streamer merging with the #3 streamer, with all sorts of other implications for markets like theaters. Over to Trump's DOJ....
2025-12-06 View on X
Financial Times

Netflix agrees to acquire WBD's studios and streaming business in an $82.7B cash-and-stock deal, including debt, to close after WBD splits in two in Q3 2026

Netflix announced this week that it had reached … Axios : Netflix to buy Warner Bros. for nearly $83 billion Alex Pigman / Taipei Times : Warner Bros acquisition by Netflix sparks ...

2025-07-18
Statement by reinstated FTC Commissioner @RKSlaughterFTC [image]
2025-07-18 View on X
Bloomberg Law

A federal judge reinstates FTC Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, months after President Trump sought to fire her and Democratic colleague Alvaro Bedoya

www.reuters.com/legal/litiga... @bstnboy : “Judge says Trump's firing of FTC commissioner was illegal”  —  Another day, another legal decision going against lardass for illegal fir...

2024-07-04
FTC Statement on Noncompete ruling in the Northern District of Texas.  ["The FTC stands by our clear authority, supported by statute and precedent, to issue this rule.  We will keep fighting to free hardworking Americans from unlawful noncompetes, which reduce innovation, inhibit economic growth, trap workers, and undermine Americans' economic liberty."]
2024-07-04 View on X
NPR

A federal court in Texas temporarily blocks the US government's ban on noncompete agreements set to take effect on September 4, and plans to rule on August 30

A federal court in Texas has partially blocked the government's ban on noncompete agreements that was set to take effect September 4.

2024-04-24
The FTC just published the noncompete rule they are going to vote on later today. You can see the full text of, and what's different about this rule from the initially proposed rule at this link 🔗 https://www.ftc.gov/...
2024-04-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The US FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economywide change

Move sets up high-stakes legal clash with business groups over the agency's power  —  WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission …

The rule is made final by a 3-2 vote.
2024-04-24 View on X
Wall Street Journal

The US FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, the first time in 50+ years that the FTC has issued a regulation mandating an economywide change

Move sets up high-stakes legal clash with business groups over the agency's power  —  WASHINGTON—The Federal Trade Commission …

2024-04-03
“I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it. They literally said 'please don't talk her' ... they wouldn't even let us do that dumb thing we did in the first act on AI” @jonstewart Full interview with FTC Chair Khan linked here 📺 https://www.youtube.com/...
2024-04-03 View on X
Axios

On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan on his Apple podcast by saying “please don't talk to her”

Apple Called Out By Jon Stewart For Blocking FTC Chair Lina Khan's Interview The Daily Show on YouTube : Jon Stewart On The False Promises of AI | The Daily Show American Economic ...

2024-04-02
“I wanted to have you on a podcast and Apple asked us not to do it. They literally said 'please don't talk her' ... they wouldn't even let us do that dumb thing we did in the first act on AI” @jonstewart Full interview with FTC Chair Khan linked here 📺 https://www.youtube.com/...
2024-04-02 View on X
Axios

On The Daily Show, Jon Stewart says Apple asked him not to interview FTC chair Lina Khan on his Apple podcast by saying “please don't talk to her”

- “Apple's conduct extends beyond just monopoly profits and even affects the flow of speech.

2023-11-03
🧵Thanks to FTC staff, previously redacted info on why Amazon is an illegal monopolist is now out! Here's some of what's new in a big thread 👇🏻 1/15
2023-11-03 View on X
Bloomberg

The FTC says Jeff Bezos ordered Amazon executives to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to early 2022

- FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon  — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’

Amazon also harms competition and extracts monopoly rents from sellers by requiring them to use Fulfilled By Amazon to have Prime eligibility. They once launched a program called Seller Fulfilled Prime which was a huge hit 11/15 [image]
2023-11-03 View on X
Bloomberg

The FTC says Jeff Bezos ordered Amazon executives to accept more junk ads to boost profits; Amazon used disappearing Signal chats from June 2019 to early 2022

- FTC releases less redacted antitrust complaint against Amazon  — Amazon counters that the FTC is ‘wrong on facts and the law’

2023-09-20
The judge just posted this order related to the accidental publication of Microsoft documents. [image]
2023-09-20 View on X
The Verge

Memo: Phil Spencer tells staff the FTC v. Microsoft documents leak is “disappointing” and that the company failed to live up to its confidentiality expectations

/ ‘We all put incredible amounts of passion and energy into our work, and this is never how we want that hard work to be shared with the community.’

2023-06-22
Amazon's cancellation process was purposely designed to stop unsubscribing. They used the term “Iliad” to describe the process, an allusion to Homer's epic poem set over twenty-four books and nearly 16,000 lines about the decade-long Trojan War. https://www.ftc.gov/...
2023-06-22 View on X
CNBC

The US FTC files a lawsuit alleging Amazon used “dark patterns” to steer customers to enroll in Prime without consent and “sabotaged” their attempts to cancel

2023-03-03
Sending consumer's mental health data to advertisers is... 😬 Read the press release below or a story by @joshua_sisco and @RuthReader here: https://www.politico.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2023-03-03 View on X
Bloomberg

Teladoc Health, which runs BetterHelp, settles with the FTC for $7.8M and agrees to stop sharing data with Meta, Snap, and other companies for ad purposes

Wow!  —  In these kinds of cases consider the incentives to government to allow terrible things to go on long enough for a nice pile of case to accrue, then demand a cut of the tak...