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Ron Knox

@ronmknox
34 posts
2023-07-14
1. Hello. FTC Chair Lina Khan is about to get put through the ringer by the lackeys of corporate power. But, before that happens, here are a few things small business organizations had to say about her and her work at the FTC. A thread.
2023-07-14 View on X
Bloomberg

At a congressional hearing, FTC Chair Lina Khan defended herself against GOP attacks over her alleged ethics violation and aggressive antitrust enforcement

Leah Nylen / Bloomberg :

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2022-10-18
Amazon really gotta believe that its workers are worthless if it can't even bother tracking how they're trained, AND IT'S LITERALLY A DATA TRACKING COMPANY https://www.engadget.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-10-18 View on X
Engadget

Internal doc: Amazon has a high attrition rate across all levels, costing $8B annually, and workers choose to leave twice as often as layoffs and firings occur

Amazon churns through workers at an astonishing rate, well above industry averages.  According to a tranche of documents marked …

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2022-08-13
can't wait for the Roomba camera bloopers show https://twitter.com/...
2022-08-13 View on X
VICE

Amazon's new reality show Ring Nation featuring footage from its Ring home security cameras is the company's latest effort to normalize its surveillance network

Amazon's newest effort to normalize its surveillance network will feature footage from Ring surveillance cameras and commentary from comedian Wanda Sykes.

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2022-04-30
When Epic bought Bandcamp, I talked a lot about Epic leveraging Bandcamp's fight with the dominant app stores in its own battle with Google and Apple. Well, here's Epics first shot - an injunction against Google's plan to pull Bandcamp from Google Play. https://www.theverge.com/...
2022-04-30 View on X
The Verge

Epic Games, which acquired Bandcamp in March, asks a US court to bar Google from removing its app from the Play Store if it doesn't implement its IAP by June 1

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2022-03-03
3. There are a few ways Epic could improve Bandcamp, and I suspect it might. It should fight for fans to be able to buy music from their phones within the Bandcamp app. Doing so would help artists and fans. Epic deeply understands Apple's payment monopoly - and how to fight it.
2022-03-03 View on X
Bandcamp Updates

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels

I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

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4. At the moment, Apple doesn't allow third-parties to accept payments for anything - whether it's Fortnite skins or albums on Bandcamp. That has forever been a barrier for the platform - and one Epic is obviously willing to go to war for.
2022-03-03 View on X
Bandcamp Updates

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels

I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

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5. Epic could also help create a thing fans have been asking for for years, and that is now occupied by third-party software: Playlists. Bandcamp playlists would be massively popular. But the worry, for me, is that it would lead to something else entirely.
2022-03-03 View on X
Bandcamp Updates

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels

I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

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1. I'm still trying to wrap my mind around this, but, as someone who is deeply cynical of consolidation, here are some quick reactions to Epic Games buying Bandcamp. https://twitter.com/...
2022-03-03 View on X
Bandcamp Updates

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels

I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

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7. At the moment, streaming on Bandcamp on mobile does what all streaming companies claim to do - offer a preview of music, so fans can then decide whether they want to pay for an album. On Bandcamp, it's a necessity. You can't keep streaming without buying. That's the model.
2022-03-03 View on X
Bandcamp Updates

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels

I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

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8. Were Epic to undo this model - if it unlinked streaming from buying a song or album - it would crater the core purpose of the platform entirely. I'm worried that - given Epic's love for subscription models in games - that's exactly what it wants to do.
2022-03-03 View on X
Bandcamp Updates

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels

I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

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6. My concern is that Epic looks at Bandcamp as sees the potential to create its own, very profitable streaming platform. Maybe it would be better than Spotify and the others, maybe it pays out more royalties. But the core business model of streaming remains bad for artists.
2022-03-03 View on X
Bandcamp Updates

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels

I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

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2. As always, my primary concern here is with the independence and finances of artists and their labels. Bandcamp isn't perfect, but so far it has been a noble and sometimes successful attempt at recreating the brick and mortar record store online. It's too important to lose.
2022-03-03 View on X
Bandcamp Updates

Epic Games acquires Bandcamp, which will continue operating as a standalone marketplace and music community; Bandcamp has paid nearly $1B to artists and labels

I'm excited to announce that Bandcamp is joining Epic Games, who you may know as the makers of Fortnite and Unreal Engine, and champions for a fair and open Internet.

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2022-01-21
Ah yes, consumers love it when the tech monopolies force them to use and buy their own products. https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-21 View on X
CNBC

The Senate Judiciary votes 16-6 to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop platforms from favoring their products over rivals'

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 Thursday to advance a major tech competition bill, which some experts consider lawmakers' best shot …

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After a roll call, The American Innovation and Choice Online Act passes out of the Senate Judiciary Committee by a vote of 16-6. That's that on that! Congrats gang. On to the full Senate.
2022-01-21 View on X
CNBC

The Senate Judiciary votes 16-6 to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop platforms from favoring their products over rivals'

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 Thursday to advance a major tech competition bill, which some experts consider lawmakers' best shot …

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A more measured manner like, for example, not regulating the tech monopolies at all! https://twitter.com/...
2022-01-21 View on X
CNBC

The Senate Judiciary votes 16-6 to advance the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which would stop platforms from favoring their products over rivals'

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 16-6 Thursday to advance a major tech competition bill, which some experts consider lawmakers' best shot …

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2021-11-06
Today @amyklobuchar and @TomCottonAR introduced a bill that would greatly restrict Big Tech's ability to crush innovation and competition through mergers. If you want to end Big Tech's dominance, this is a crucial place to start. https://ilsr.org/...
2021-11-06 View on X
Axios

Senators Klobuchar and Cotton introduce a bill to regulate Big Tech acquisitions, which would force companies to prove proposed mergers aren't anticompetitive

@Google, @Amazon, @Facebook, @Apple — that are crushing competition, shuttering small businesses, and canceling conservatives. Break. 'Em. Up. https://twitter.com/... Ron Knox / @r...

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2021-09-03
If google and facebook outright colluded on Jedi Blue, which seems to be what happened according to what's public about the agreement, the DOJ doesn't have to prove the agreement affected competition at all. If it happened, people go to prison. https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-03 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Ireland's Data Protection Commission, on behalf of the EU, fines WhatsApp €225M for privacy violations, the second-largest fine under GDPR; WhatsApp will appeal

Regulators say chat-service unit failed to disclose fully how it collected and shared data about its users Source: Data Protection Commission .

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2021-08-20
3. Now it has. The new complaint uses the most direct evidence of market share I could imagine: monthly users. The complaint says FB has tens of millions more monthly users than its next-biggest rival, Snapchat. Which raises the question: Is Snapchat its next biggest rival?
2021-08-20 View on X
The Verge

FTC's new suit says Facebook has a monopoly in “US personal social networking services”, distinguishing it from TikTok, and Lina Khan will not recuse herself

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5. That claim passes the smell test for me. I don't know anyone who could claim to use Twitter in the same way they use FB or Instagram. Tiktok is slightly different, though. Obviously FB/Insta has used its power to make a carbon copy of Tiktok, in Reels. We'll see.
2021-08-20 View on X
CNBC

FTC files a new antitrust complaint against Facebook, after a judge dismissed the first complaint in June; Facebook has until October 4 to respond

This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Tweets: @fbnewsroom : We are reviewing the FTC's amended complaint and will have more to say soon. Lina Khan / @linak...

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2. The FTC's first lawsuit failed because the judge in the case said the FTC needed to show evidence of monopolization in its initial complaint. That's not how the process is supposed to work, but so be it. The FTC was asked essentially to go back and show its work.
2021-08-20 View on X
CNBC

FTC files a new antitrust complaint against Facebook, after a judge dismissed the first complaint in June; Facebook has until October 4 to respond

This article is an on-site version of our Unhedged newsletter. Tweets: @fbnewsroom : We are reviewing the FTC's amended complaint and will have more to say soon. Lina Khan / @linak...

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