Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy
whitehouse.gov>Make it easier to change jobs and help raise wages by banning or limiting non-compete agreements and unnecessary, cumbersome occupational licensing requirements that impede economic mobility.
Good. Really needs to be a law. Not sure how much FTC action would survive the courts.
Seeing a lot of "big tech" takes on the order but if you read it, "big tech" is a minor focus of the order. It's the last of five named industries and you literally have to scroll all the way to the bottom to read about it. That seems fitting to me, since America has dozens of problems that are much more serious than the fact that Google has web server logs.
I get your point overall, but Google’s “web server logs” sure do build one hell of a profile about someone.
Whitehouse order: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
It's remarkable to see a statement so thoroughly footnoted with links to supporting documents.
Oddly, the one link I can't find is the order itself. This is a statement, rather than the actual order. I can't find it on the White House site or the Federal Register.
The Washington Post says the order isn't coming out until later this afternoon.
Net neutrality! While we're at it, I wish the White House had included bringing back the Fairness Doctrine:
I don't think the fairness doctrine is worth it in the modern day.
1. Most sources of news that people consume would be exempt as the fairness doctrine only works on broadcast TV.
2. The doctrine was often used as a political cudgel to silence criticism.
3. It usually didn't achieve the desired goal as it's easy for an interested actor to bias the "other side" reporting.
Regarding banks, we need account number portability like we have for phone numbers. One of the impediments to switching banks is that all automatic payments (and direct deposit) have to be revised.
>The economy is booming under President Biden’s leadership.
I mean I'm not into politics but this kind of self promotion is ridiculous.
>Lower prescription drug prices by supporting state and tribal programs that will import safe and cheaper drugs from Canada.
When I hear Canada and their health system/indsutry I always recall this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJOO9I9kvwo
>Calls on the leading antitrust agencies, the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to enforce the antitrust laws vigorously and recognizes that the law allows them to challenge prior bad mergers that past Administrations did not previously challenge.
>Big Tech platforms purchasing would-be competitors: Over the past ten years, the largest tech platforms have acquired hundreds of companies—including alleged “killer acquisitions” meant to shut down a potential competitive threat. Too often, federal agencies have not blocked, conditioned, or, in some cases, meaningfully examined these acquisitions.
Obama was in the office from 2009 to 2017. Facebook's Instagram and Whatapp acquisitions happened in that period so go ask Obama and FTC at the time why this acquisitions were allowed.
I mean, "Obama was in the office from 2009 to 2017" doesn't exactly feel like as much of a slick gotcha when the language also explicitly includes the timeframe of his presidency and refers to "administrations" in the plural
>Over the past ten years, the largest tech platforms have acquired hundreds of companies
Obama was two times in the office in the last 10 years and Trump once. Why Democrats didn't urge Obama and FTC to stop "harmful" acquisitions in the 8 years time of Obama's presidency?
Do you really think there wasnt a single person identifying as a Democrat who opposed acquisitions? Not everything is black and white - voting for Obama does not force you to agree with EVERYTHING he did.
What about competition in education? If my three children attended schools other than neighborhood public one, it could cost us more than $100K per year. Public schools are almost monopolies. The Democrats, heavily supported by teachers' unions, do not talk about competition in education.