If you’re like me, you probably barely notice the advertisements for skin care products, niche kitchen appliances, and the latest pumpkin-flavored treat that fill the margins of nearly every website you visit. While we’re all familiar with the omnipresent digital pop-up ads on everything from cooking blogs to news sites, many internet users don’t understand […]
Tag: antitrust
The Case for Breaking Up Big Tech
The Big, the Bad, the Un-American… In 2020, New York Times writer Kashmir Hill set out to answer a salient question: how dependent are we on Big Tech? Working with a technologist, Hill designed a virtual private network that blocked all internet addresses controlled by tech’s five largest companies: Amazon, Google’s parent company Alphabet, Meta, […]
The Next Antitrust Wave: Is Lina Khan the New Robert Bork?
In the last few years, Facebook, Apple, Google, and Amazon have dominated the news, and at the same time have become increasingly involved in every aspect of our lives. Calls to break up and/or regulate these corporations have recently picked up momentum, specifically motivated by the 2020 House Judiciary Committee report concluding that “Big Tech” […]