2024-11-30
Wow, Canada's Competition Bureau has just sued Google for anti-competitive behavior, seeks to have Google divest 2 core parts of its ad exchange system & other penalties. Notes harms to Canadians & ad funded media denied fair cut of ad revenue. https://www.canada.ca/...
Reuters
Canada's Competition Bureau sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, seeking Google to sell two of its ad tech tools and more
Ismail Shakil / Reuters :
2024-11-29
Wow, Canada's Competition Bureau has just sued Google for anti-competitive behavior, seeks to have Google divest 2 core parts of its ad exchange system & other penalties. Notes harms to Canadians & ad funded media denied fair cut of ad revenue. https://www.canada.ca/...
Reuters
Canada's Competition Bureau sues Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, seeking Google to sell two of its ad tech tools and more
Canada's Competition Bureau is suing Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google over alleged anti-competitive conduct in online advertising, the antitrust watchdog said on Thursday.
2024-04-30
I wonder how/if the @FCC's newly reinstated @netneutrality (aka common carrier) rules will address these data & privacy issues? Quick skim says it's using just such powers here. The beauty of common carriage is that it limits gatekeeping power & sets out fundamental rights.
The Verge
The FCC fines T-Mobile $80M, AT&T $57M, and Verizon $47M for allegedly illegally sharing customers' location data with aggregators “without customer consent”
The FCC says it found the carriers “sold access to its customers' location information to 'aggregators …
2024-03-22
Very interesting move by the DoJ to go into the social uses of smartphones to build its abuse of dominance case against Apple.
Wall Street Journal
The US DOJ sues Apple, alleging the company blocked its competitors from accessing iPhone features, made switching to non-Apple devices more difficult, and more
In 2010, a top Apple executive emailed Apple's then-CEO about an ad for the new Kindle e-reader. TechCrunch : TechCrunch Minute: Breaking down the Apple iPhone antitrust lawsuit fr...
Very interesting move by the DoJ to go into the social uses of smartphones to build its abuse of dominance case against Apple.
The Verge
In its lawsuit, the US DOJ alleges CarPlay lets Apple exert too much control over the auto industry; some analysts say the DOJ may be misunderstanding CarPlay
Buried in the 88-page antitrust lawsuit filed by the US Department of Justice against Apple is a reference to everyone's favorite phone-projection system, CarPlay.
2022-04-06
There are many troubling aspects to the Online News Act, but attempts to formalize platform regs cld be a good thing, even if this bill doesn't do it. Measures drawn from telecoms regs prohibiting undue discrimination by platforms is 1 good thing. https://www.parl.ca/... https://twitter.com/...
CBC News
Canada's government introduces legislation that would force major online platforms run by Google and Meta to negotiate deals with publishers, like in Australia
John Paul Tasker / CBC News :
It is primarily about transferring $ from Google & Facebook to Canadian news media via corporatist bargaining arrangements b/w both vs addressing market dominance & gatekeeper power wherever it exists in the network media ecology.
CBC News
Canada's government introduces legislation that would force major online platforms run by Google and Meta to negotiate deals with publishers, like in Australia
John Paul Tasker / CBC News :
The biggest problems w/ the Online News Act are: 1. it's built on severe misdiagnoses of the problems facing news media & incessant lobbying vs an adequate understanding of the long-term confluence of factors that have led us to the ‘crisis of journalism’ & public interests; 2.
CBC News
Canada's government introduces legislation that would force major online platforms run by Google and Meta to negotiate deals with publishers, like in Australia
John Paul Tasker / CBC News :
2022-01-12
Upshot of the ruling: play ball, the FTC's claims about Facebook's creation & maintenance of a personal social networking monopoly are solid enough for the case to go ahead. So, as it says, 2nd time lucky since the same court dismissed the case 1st time around.
Washington Post
Federal judge rules FTC's amended suit alleging Meta has a monopoly can move forward, after a ruling last year threw out FTC's complaint over lack of evidence
The decision is a reversal of fortune for the agency after its first complaint was thrown out last year Source: DocumentCloud .
This is important—> Facebook made up several ideas about why the FTC's case was out-of-bounds, including that it was based on revisionist history & the idea that FTC couldn't require an after-the-fact divestiture. Both claims were false. Now, let's see what the court said. https://twitter.com/...
Washington Post
Federal judge rules FTC's amended suit alleging Meta has a monopoly can move forward, after a ruling last year threw out FTC's complaint over lack of evidence
The decision is a reversal of fortune for the agency after its first complaint was thrown out last year Source: DocumentCloud .
2021-08-13
Is this a sign that acquisitions by Facebook, Google, etc will no longer get a free pass? The pendulum in antitrust b/w rule-of-reason (ie deference to claims that big is better & M&As good for consumers) vs per se, bright line rules limiting M&A seems 2b swinging towards latter. https://twitter.com/...
Variety
UK's CMA says it has provisionally found that Facebook's Giphy acquisition could negatively impact competition, such as by denying competitors access to GIFs
The merger of social media giant Facebook and Giphy, the largest provider of GIFs, has run into a roadblock from the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
@bdanks Agree. With @linakhanFTC at the @FTC & @superwuster serving as advisor to the Biden Administration, there's definite momentum in the direction needed. And once the US shifts, others will follow, altho the UK & EU seem to have been tacking this way for a while now.
Variety
UK's CMA says it has provisionally found that Facebook's Giphy acquisition could negatively impact competition, such as by denying competitors access to GIFs
The merger of social media giant Facebook and Giphy, the largest provider of GIFs, has run into a roadblock from the U.K.'s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
2021-07-31
Rather than setting acceptable limits to people's freedom of expression in a democratic society thru the courts, the online harms consultation starts from the premise that Facebook, et. al. should be tasked with making calls about what speech stays up, what comes down. In so 4/x
Toronto Star
Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms
The shallow but troubling fixation on content obscures the fact that the govt does not have the spine needed to tackle the structural roots of the broken Internet. Seen like this, it is weak posturing rather than a laudable advance toward a needed new era of Internet regulation.
Toronto Star
Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms
doing, it effectively reinforces the privatization of speech regulation that exists-albeit w/ clearer guidelines backstopped by a new Digital Recourse Council. People who want to challenge Facebook or Twitter's decision to block, take down, shadow-ban, etc their messages must 5/x
Toronto Star
Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms
1st run the gauntlet of the platforms' own dispute/appeals mechanism. Only then can they turn to the new DRC to have their concerns heard & the cos' made to justify their decisions. This is a modest improvement over the status quo but still puts private speech regulation 1st. 6/x
Toronto Star
Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms
2021-07-30
The shallow but troubling fixation on content obscures the fact that the govt does not have the spine needed to tackle the structural roots of the broken Internet. Seen like this, it is weak posturing rather than a laudable advance toward a needed new era of Internet regulation.
Toronto Star
Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms
On this page — Module 1: A new legislative and regulatory framework for social media platforms One Degree : One Degree Friday July 30 2021 Anja Karadeglija / montrealgazette : Fed...
1st run the gauntlet of the platforms' own dispute/appeals mechanism. Only then can they turn to the new DRC to have their concerns heard & the cos' made to justify their decisions. This is a modest improvement over the status quo but still puts private speech regulation 1st. 6/x
Toronto Star
Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms
On this page — Module 1: A new legislative and regulatory framework for social media platforms One Degree : One Degree Friday July 30 2021 Anja Karadeglija / montrealgazette : Fed...
Rather than setting acceptable limits to people's freedom of expression in a democratic society thru the courts, the online harms consultation starts from the premise that Facebook, et. al. should be tasked with making calls about what speech stays up, what comes down. In so 4/x
Toronto Star
Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms
On this page — Module 1: A new legislative and regulatory framework for social media platforms One Degree : One Degree Friday July 30 2021 Anja Karadeglija / montrealgazette : Fed...
doing, it effectively reinforces the privatization of speech regulation that exists-albeit w/ clearer guidelines backstopped by a new Digital Recourse Council. People who want to challenge Facebook or Twitter's decision to block, take down, shadow-ban, etc their messages must 5/x
Toronto Star
Canada proposes the creation of a digital safety commissioner role to oversee violations of new harmful online content rules and issue penalties to platforms
On this page — Module 1: A new legislative and regulatory framework for social media platforms One Degree : One Degree Friday July 30 2021 Anja Karadeglija / montrealgazette : Fed...