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"The leader of the party of consumers and taxpayers argued against a measure to increase competition and lower prices because it might upset incumbent capital. In that single statement, the party’s modern priority was laid bare: protecting established businesses now trumps the creation of competitive markets for consumers. The 'consumer' in the party’s name has been forgotten entirely."
#BryceEdwards, 2026
Hi @johnnyryan, I see your profile mentions being a fellow at the Open Markets Institute. Does the OMI have its own offical account here?
“As this report makes clear, the real danger is not just misinformation and other harmful content, but the concentrated power of tech monopolies who profit from its spread. These firms control the infrastructure of online life, curate public discourse, and operate with near-total impunity. Tackling online harm means confronting the power of the platforms themselves."
#MaxVonThun, Europe Director, #OpenMarkets Institute Europe, 2025
"I think that centrist suppression of the left has pushed 90 percent of the energy for major change into right wing nihilist movements, but the anti-corporate, #antimonopolist energy has not dissipated. It's formed a kind of invisible political wind that has filled the sails of these #antimonopoly projects all over the world."
@pluralistic
Any of those available in F-Droid? AFAIK other than Fennec, all the web browsers available there are wrappers around the Chrome WebView built into Android.
One outcome of the 2001 antitrust case against BorgSoft was to stop them making all web browsing on Windows depend on Internet Exploiter. The Safari WebView on iThings does *exactly* what BorgSoft were forbidden from doing.
I'm guessing Goggle use various backhanded tricks to push app devs into using the Chrome WebView on Android. We're certainly at risk of future enshittification making it compulsory there too.
#AntiMonopoly prosecutors take note.
"I think that centrist suppression of the left has pushed 90 percent of the energy for major change into right wing nihilist movements, but the anti-corporate, #antimonopolist energy has not dissipated. It's formed a kind of invisible political wind that has filled the sails of these #antimonopoly projects all over the world."
@pluralistic
"The Commerce Commission has calculated the supermarket duopoly extracts $1m in excess profits every day – profits, in other words, above and beyond those they would make in a competitive market. That $1m a day comes straight out of shoppers’ wallets."
#MaxRashbrooke, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/27-02-2025/we-need-to-stop-shadow-boxing-on-competition
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#AntiMonopoly#ComCom#SupermarketDuopoly
The dominance of kiwi news media by NZME/ OneRoof and Stuff/ TradeMe is starting to look disturbingly like the supermarket duopoloy.
"Maybe, something like this [anti-genocide boycotts] will shame this will scare, or shame ... festivals or companies or whatever into making more ethical choices.
I mean, this is before we even get onto the antitrust case that the US DoJ is taking against TicketMaster and Live Nation, which is next March I think that starts. Big money is never clean."
#UnaMullally, 2025
https://nialler9.com/palestine-kneecap-and-why-artists-are-boycotting-music-festivals-podcast
#podcasts #Nialler9 #MusicFestivals #TicketMaster #LiveNation #AntiTrust #AntiMonopoly #USDOJ
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