Not with 95%+ of mobile search market just weeks away from DOJ's closing arguments for allegedly abusing it. Adam, you've protected google from antitrust and privacy abuses over 10+ years but suppressing news in arguably the most important election year ever. Gives you no pause?

Twitter has strong network effects, illustrated by the difficulty of replicating networks on alternative platforms.

Mandating portability of networks between platforms would be so powerful for encouraging competition on the basis of security, moderation and (yes) price.

Peskin is calling for an SF inspector general: “An inspector general would be a centralized entity focusing on waste, fraud and corruption — and that’s it. The position would have broad powers, but limited scope.”

👍🏾👍🏾 missionlocal.org/2024/04/inspec…

Google is blocking news sites in an attempt to bully California lawmakers out of requiring Google to share revenue from journalism with news outlets.

Undermining democracy has become Google's standard playbook.
politico.com/news/2024/04/1…

happy holiday

And that doesn’t count the critical nature of the news information and data Google harvests to boost its query scale for tail searches and AI training.

Interesting. Almost 70% of San Francisco residents live in multi-family housing. The way some people talk you’d think bison live here.

Google makes roughly $21 billion per year in revenue from news-related searches. Which means Google’s threat to pull news content from search results isn’t just dangerous; it’s also empty.

Megan Amram’s shouts and murmurs

I can't count the number of times I've heard competition lawyers at conferences say that 'antitrust isn't the right remedy' or that '[concern X] isn't something antitrust/ competition lawyers should care about.'

Jeffries flipped to deliver the kill shot vote to a FISA 702 warrant requirement, handing over Stasi state powers to a potential Trump admin; spare me the concern trolling

SCOTUS got this one right, recognizing that transportation workers are not required to arbitrate their employment-related grievances.

Today’s decision ensures that they will not be forced into arbitration that is detrimental to their interests.
oag.ca.gov/news/press-rel…

one really low cost thing Biden could do to earn some good will on the left is to endorse progressive incumbents’ primary bids. literally the bare minimum courtesy, which he has previously extended to centrists (some of whom objectively did way more damage to his agenda)