when the ceos of facebook, twitter, and google testify later this week at a house hearing, a number of familiar policy re for ms will be on the table. antitrust. section 230. privacy legislation. a new campaign wants to add another bold idea into the mix: “ban surveillance advertising.” in an open letter posted today,
entrench their market power that is already quite intense,” she said in an interview. “The amount of data that they're collecting enables them to have a really detailed sense of the online activity of various individuals, and then [use] that to fuel an ad business … that helps to entrench this power and then also
health plans being really expensive for small employers, especially if they have trouble pitting different plans against each other, or if they can’t go to different states.” It will still be a while before those answers start to come into focus, as the settlement might not be approved by a judge until later this year.
issue behind it, right? Matt Stoller: Well, I think every line in my piece is brilliant. So, there’s this traditional populist framework, pro-business, pro-justice, American framework that doesn’t real ly sit comfortably on the right or the left. It’s sort of the yeoman farmer thing from Thomas Jefferson, which kind of got updated to be the
mistake, and is determined not to repeat it. He has the ability to learn a lot more, particularly about the Obama administration’s relationship to corporate power. A detailed report from the American Economic Liberties Project, fittingly called “The Courage to Learn,” painstakingly documents how the Obama team failed to stop a wave of consolidation across