{"id":27122,"date":"2020-07-30T13:12:17","date_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pappp.net\/?guid=49d66c9d8b6d5dac7eced0ee88ac17c6"},"modified":"2020-07-30T13:12:17","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T17:12:17","slug":"tech-antitrust-hearing-all-the-news-updates-and-documents-from-congress-big-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=27122","title":{"rendered":"Tech antitrust hearing: all the news, updates, and documents from Congress&rsquo; big moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/30\/21348239\/tech-antitrust-hearing-congress-documents-news-facebook-amazon-apple-google\">The Verge -  All Posts<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color : #fff7d5;\n\t\t\tborder-width : 1px; padding : 5px; border-style : dashed; border-color : #e7d796;margin-bottom : 1em; color : #9a8c59;\">Article note: These hearings have produced some super-interesting reading. \r\n\r\nAmazon is exactly as evil as they've always seemed, the way the crushed Quidsi (diapers.com, soap.com) is pretty much the definition of anti-competitive behavior, and on record. (the ArsTechnica article on that one is better) \r\n\r\nApple's forcing everyone on iOS into the payment system they get a cut of is some scrip bullshit, and their Right to Repair behavior is so bad even the journalist-enthusiasts didn't bite. \r\n\r\nFacebook is ... facebook, they're always full of careless tech-bro shit.\r\n\r\nThe weird mixture of inter-FAANG antagonism\/special deals with things like video platform interop are fascinating sets of contrast (probably due to warring kingdoms inside the mega corps) and clear signs of collusive monopolists.<\/div><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/7yOsh1jzDkz4IhraFFSKpssqY_U=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67133425\/acastro_181106_1777_flag_0002.0.jpg\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer\"\/><small>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/small>\n\n  <p>The House Judiciary Committee&rsquo;s antitrust panel has been very busy<\/p>\n  <p>\n    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2020\/7\/30\/21348239\/tech-antitrust-hearing-congress-documents-news-facebook-amazon-apple-google\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Continue reading&hellip;<\/a>\n  <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Illustration by Alex Castro \/ The Verge<\/p>\n<p>  The House Judiciary Committee&rsquo;s antitrust panel ha&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=27122\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}