For anyone in the U.S. who feels similarly, I urge you to write to the FTC and your representatives, and specifically:
1) Call for abandoning the "Consumer Welfare Standard"
2) Enumerate how the Tech Tyrants have negatively affected the competitiveness of companies/projects you've worked on (M&A, canceled products, vaporware, embrace and extend, pricing changes, etc.)
1) Call for abandoning the "Consumer Welfare Standard"
2) Enumerate how the Tech Tyrants have negatively affected the competitiveness of companies/projects you've worked on (M&A, canceled products, vaporware, embrace and extend, pricing changes, etc.)
http://rooseveltinstitute.org/consumer-welfare-standard-outd...
https://medium.com/@CDisrupted/does-the-consumer-welfare-sta...
http://rooseveltinstitute.org/effective-competition-standard...
Big Tech is lobbying hard to retain the "Consumer Welfare Standard", which they rely on for anti-trust evasion:
https://itif.org/publications/2018/10/04/why-consumer-welfar...
https://www.seattletimes.com/opinion/dont-damage-our-democra...