American industry has become extremely concentrated, and this creeping monopolization
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The monopolization of ad revenue starves legitimate outlets of financing.
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The "Monopolization Deterrence Act" by the Democratic senators would allow the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to seek civil penalties for monopolization offenses under U.S. antitrust law, Klobuchar's office said in a statement.
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The two Democrats call it the "Monopolization Deterrence Act," Reuters reported.
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Monopolization means less competition, higher prices, and reduced quality of care.
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In addition to monopoly power, a monopolization case requires exclusionary conduct.
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The last major US monopolization case was Microsoft, 18 years ago.
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And enforcers need to bring more monopolization cases, like United States v.
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Monopolization isn't just a business practice; it is, according to the law, a crime.
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We're seeing basically a second wave of consolidation and monopolization because of the digital revolution.
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"When you talk about monopolization claims, the main issue is exclusion, unfair exclusion," Roberti said.
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But the price we pay for increasing monopolization goes far beyond such corporate rip-offs.
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Bill Baxter, Reagan's antitrust chief, did not want to bring monopolization suits, and did not.
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That's because due to monopolization, many segments of corporate America are becoming increasingly concentrated spaces.
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It is just the latest institution to recognize the increasing monopolization of the technology industry.
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And yet again, the problem is that this monopolization only leaves room for the giants.
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Apple's hardware lead is built atop a tight control, often monopolization, of its component supply chain.
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Even former Obama administration economists discovered that greater monopolization accounted for the rise in income inequality.
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Milken and Enron executives, for instance, went to jail, and Microsoft went to trial for monopolization.
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"It's a question of state monopolization of violence," one source told me of Congo's illegal charcoal trade.
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So while there hasn't been much monopolization enforcement, price is not the only consideration of antitrust law.
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The resulting monopolization has driven down wages, decreased competition, and fueled the nation's stark rise in income inequality.
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Creeping monopolization throughout many sectors of the economy over the past 40 years has exacted a high toll.
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The trial currently in progress is to vet whether AbbVie had the required "subjective intent" for illegal monopolization.
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It is time for the agency finally to conclude its investigation and bring a monopolization case against Apple.
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Disney&aposs growth over the last two decades is nothing less than a monopolization of the entertainment industry.
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If we try to understand that rise in capital share, certainly increased monopolization is one important possible source.
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Facebook, on the other hand, has become a starting point through its monopolization of users' time, attention and data.
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As Clinton demonstrated in Toledo, the trend toward monopolization explains the frustration of those left out of economic gains.
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Developers sued Apple yesterday over what they say is "improper monopolization" of the market for iOS apps, Reuters reports.
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The Obama administration, like the Bush administration before it, declined to bring a single major monopolization suit against U.S. companies.
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The monopolization of the "crime zone" by the United States contributes to modern Vietnam's obliteration of the communists' own wrongdoings.
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"Based on news reports, it sounds like your agencies may be pursuing monopolization investigations of the same companies," said Lee.
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Monopolization, this concentration of wealth and power, is a threat to everything that is America — everything we established America to ensure.
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"This virtual monopolization of the market by Grab can harm the riding public," said PCC, which started its review on Tuesday.
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But what it actually reflects is a decades-long divergence in the way the U.S. and Europe approach regulation and monopolization.
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Any drastic actions against Facebook would come from federal antitrust enforcers, not legislators, including bringing a monopolization case against the company.
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The purpose of the antitrust laws is to protect competition, and a price effect is not required for a monopolization case.
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Pro wrestling's history in the United States is marked by a workforce struggling to adapt in the face of gradual monopolization.
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There's no real reason to go with them unless you're just that morally repulsed by a corporation's monopolization of our digital lives.
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Concerns over increasing privatization and monopolization of food crops - which experts say threaten agricultural biodiversity - played a role in the treaty's origins.
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If past experience is any indication, however, the privatization of space mining will inevitably lead to the abuse and monopolization of planetary resources.
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The overall trend is toward digital monopolization, and the new control Google just gained should serve as a rallying cry for us all.
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That rule was "developed and implemented by Republicans," according to Politico, to prevent the monopolization of local news markets by a single company.
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"Based on news reports, it sounds like your agencies may be pursuing monopolization investigations of the same companies," Lee said in written remarks.
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Antitrust laws exist in order prevent monopolization, which occurs when a company so dominates a market that it effectively eliminates the possibility of competition.
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Regardless, bringing a "giant monopolization case" against Amazon would be foolish unless the agencies had reams of evidence to back up a case, Kovacic said.
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"I think there is a potential monopolization case against Amazon," said Chris Sagers, an antitrust professor at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in Ohio.
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That this was happening alongside a statistically visible increase in the concentration of many sectors of the economy suggested that, yes, monopolization was driving superstardom.
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Problems arise only when a company "unreasonably restrains competition" or gains and holds power "through improper conduct," according to the Federal Trade Commission's definition of monopolization.
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In the U.S., companies have no limits on what they can charge for drugs, and this period of monopolization allows them to charge whatever they want.
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Technology companies — including Amazon, along with others such as Facebook, Google and Apple — have finally begun to attract negative attention for their monopolization of certain markets.
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These caps were put in place, according to the State Department, to guard against the monopolization of the green card process by a few larger countries.
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Sally Hubbard is a former assistant attorney general in the New York AG Antitrust Bureau who heads up big tech and monopolization for The Capitol Forum.
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In the first Gilded Age, the concern was over land monopolization by a handful of large-scale owners and how that crowded out and impoverished labor.
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"Despite mounting evidence of illegal monopolization activities by the dominant platforms, and numerous cases brought by the international enforcers, U.S. enforcers appear to be paralyzed," Rep.
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But the FCO says Facebook's control of multiple social networks combined with its high market share is "indicative of a monopolization process" and means intervention is needed.
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The rapid acceleration of consolidation has, in some cases, resulted in the monopolization of health care in communities even when lower quality, higher cost facilities are involved.
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Google is now facing scrutiny from US and European regulators for mishandling data and monopolization, as well as its work on a censored search engine for China.
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News outlets big and small are abuzz over Anish Kapoor's effective monopolization of Vantablack, the nanotubular substance developed by Surrey NanoSystems that absorbs 99.96% of visible light.
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Champlain is mostly remembered for his prodigious mapping of North America's eastern seaboard, the founding of Quebec, and his monopolization of the fur trade in the region.
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In a widely cited speech in Tel Aviv, Israel, last year, Delrahim signaled an openness to investigating tech giants for monopolization and exploring their impact on privacy.
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Klobuchar's "Monopolization Deterrence Act" would empower both the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission with the authority to seek civil penalties for behavior they deem monopolistic.
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I saw my former self in their monopolization of the chat rooms, their disdain for the growing sales team, their wistfulness for the way things had been.
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" The British lawmakers said that the government and the U.K.'s competition watchdog should "review proactively the use and potential monopolization of data by the big technology companies.
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But this is not just a problem of the monopolization of an industry — these new monopolists are not simply more powerful media behemoths taking share from smaller publishers.
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"Our legislation would empower our antitrust watchdogs with new tools to deter monopolization of market power and hold bad actors accountable," Blumenthal said in an emailed statement to Gizmodo.
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With the campaign, which has yet to go viral, Trifonov hopes to bring what he refers to as Tinder/Match Group's monopolization of the dating app space to light.
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Regulators should review the "potential monopolization of data" by U.S. technology giants in the U.K. that could hamper homegrown development of artificial intelligence (AI), an influential body has recommended.
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"This agreement does not end monopolization of farm equipment repair," Nathan Proctor, who is heading consumer rights group US PIRG's right to repair efforts, told me in an email.
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The legislation has also been seen as a way to protect small business jobs while preventing the monopolization of the repair industry by megacorporations such as Apple and John Deere.
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In 1904, the court ruled in a 5-4 split decision that Roosevelt had properly acted under the powers enumerated in the Sherman Act, a landmark law that outlawed monopolization.
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The merger can already be felt in the form of higher prices, while its long-term legacy will likely include increased consolidation—and monopolization—in the telecommunications and media industries.
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Until Amazon's share of the total market starts to reach closer to 40 percent or more, it is difficult to argue there is an attempted-monopolization case, say legal experts.
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Rural areas of the US — where internet access is already scarce due to a lack of ISPs operating there — will be further subjected to corporatization and monopolization of their internet infrastructure.
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Hubbard served as an assistant attorney general in the antitrust bureau of the New York attorney general's office and headed up coverage of monopolization and tech platforms for the Capitol Forum.
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Capitalism proved to be essential for economic growth, and the only question was how it should be regulated to protect workers and to prevent abuses such as monopolization and price gouging.
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"The government's successful monopolization case against Microsoft may very well have paved the way for companies like Google, Yahoo and Apple to enter with their own desktop and mobile products," Delrahim said.
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The lawsuit wants to break Apple's "improper monopolization of this market," while a Supreme Court decision last month says consumers can now sue Apple for driving up prices in the App Store.
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"The governments successful monopolization case against Microsoft may very well have paved the way for companies like Google, Yahoo and Apple to enter with their own desktop and mobile products," Delrahim said.
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Twenty years ago, the Federal Trade Commission launched a monopolization investigation of Microsoft that, a few years later after the agency deadlocked, led to a landmark Justice Department antitrust prosecution and settlement.
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He faces a resurgent Taliban across the country, and some of the country's major politicians, including his own supporters, have turned against him over what they consider his increasing monopolization of power.
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Amazon represents the increasing monopolization of retail; the high rents are a symptom of the enormous concentration of wealth in a handful of coastal cities like New York, San Francisco and Washington.
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The opponents of the merger will scream "monopolization," a knee-jerk response so mindless that it is tempting to believe that it is driven far more by ideological imperatives rather than actual analytics.
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"We are afraid there will be a monopolization of power," Alex Ryabchyn, a member of Parliament in the Fatherland party of a former prime minister, Yulia V. Tymoshenko, said in a telephone interview.
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Another clue that the internet isn't some unique area of monopolization is the fact that consolidation has been happening for decades across all kinds of decidedly analog industries, including meatpacking, beer, and hospitals.
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Many problems — the monopolization of provider networks, a regulatory framework that forces Americans to overpay for generic drugs — require both a positive Republican vision and a more robust majority to carry it out.
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Two weekends ago, a loose network of these artists and activists, under the name Subvertisers International, launched their first global effort to reclaim our shared public environment from its monopolization by commercial media.
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As the New York Times noted, customers have already had a preview of that reality via the near-monopolization of internet use and infrastructure by a handful of massive internet firms and service providers.
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Although these "greenbacks" were unpopular and eventually ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, they marked the first step on the road towards government monopolization of currency and thence to the debasement of the dollar.
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Monopolization is both the possession of the monopoly power in the relevant market and the willful acquisition or maintenance of that power, which is different from growing as a consequence of just being the best.
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What drives monopolization is not business know-how or technological innovation, but public policy—a political environment that permits or even enables an investor like Jeff Bezos to engage in a massive accumulation of economic power.
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Moreover, without this act, we would see the continuation, even acceleration of two current trends: the monopolization of mega banks and the gross under-servicing of the backbone of our economy, small and medium-sized businesses.
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But the mass commodification and monopolization of media has made it simpler and simpler for facts to be suppressed and denied and for polemic and propaganda to be forced into the mouths of people we trust.
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Over the next few weeks, I will be talking with the people fighting the big five's monopolization of everything by developing alternative tools and will write a guide to replacing these products in your own life.
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But reformers like Lina Khan, now the majority counsel to the House Judiciary's antitrust subcommittee, have drawn attention to other forms of harm that can stem from monopolization, including the crushing of small businesses and entrepreneurs.
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"Every other country on planet Earth that is moving ahead of the United States on lower prices, gigabit speeds, universality, and fiber infrastructure got there because an expert regulator promoted competition, access, and prevented monopolization," he said.
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In order to ensure that hard working Americans can afford life-saving drugs, Congress members must fulfill their obligations to constituents by considering arbitration as a solution to the monopolization of the most expensive pharmaceuticals in our country.
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But while many of media's current problems arguably have to do with monopolization of their access to readers by tech giants, digital publications will probably find it hard to turn down a tool which could boost fledgling subscription numbers.
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The scandal sparked discussions about monopolization in the airline industry, the nexus of corporate greed and state violence, and even whether the death of customer service contributed to the populist furor that swept the country in the 2016 election.
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He suggests that our new Gilded Age has seen the return not only of monopolization and astronomic inequality, but also outsized oligarchical influence over the media, whether it's an envelope-pushing website, a storied newspaper, or something in between.
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So, I tried to start the book with the question, what is the relationship between the extraordinary elite generosity of our time, which is real, and the extraordinary elite hoarding of our time, the monopolization of the future itself?
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An antitrust investigation into Alphabet's business by the Department of Justice has been anticipated for more than a month, following reports in late May that the agency was preparing an investigation into whether the company was carrying out unlawful monopolization strategies.
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In Pickett v Tyson Fresh Meats, the 11th Circuit stated that the PSA was enacted to "prevent…price fixing and manipulation and monopolization" and required that aggrieved cattle producers demonstrate that meat packer action resulted in an industry-wide competitive harm.
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In short, the federal judiciary has made the PSA entirely superfluous: packer conduct toward individual producers may be unfair, unjustly discriminatory or even deceptive so long as it does not violate anti-trust prohibitions against restraints of trade and monopolization.
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"The monopolization of the music industry features this imposed frequency that is 'herding' populations into greater aggression, psychosocial agitation, and emotional distress predisposing people to physical illnesses and financial impositions profiting the agents, agencies, and companies engaged in the monopoly," he writes.
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Specifically, it's looking into whether any past purchases were intended to head off "a competitive threat to the platform" before it got too big or led to the "monopolization of adjacent markets," said Bilal Sayyed, director of the FTC's Office of Policy Planning.
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Following decades of industry nepotism and monopolization by the major studios which collapsed the independent film scene started during the Parallel Cinema movement, indie cinema again sprouted new roots alongside Bollywood in the early 2000s, around the same time, Kashyap started making features.
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In 2015, Nikolay Nikiforov, the Russian Minister of Communications and Mass Communications, tweeted support for the "de-monopolization of the global IT ecosystem" and announced Russia's intention to provide grants to developers to move apps from Android to open source platforms like Sailfish.
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Communist Party leaders believe that the nation's perceived ability to meet or exceed the annual number is an important element in lending legitimacy to the party, which offers citizens economic opportunity in exchange for their agreeing to the party's monopolization of political power.
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Open Markets, a division at the public policy think tank the New America Foundation, had been an intellectual force in progressive circles in recent years, leading to a heightened awareness of the damaging effects that monopolization is having on both consumers and businesses.
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Google needed a model that supported boundless growth and one that created a "win-win" for its advertising partners — one that resembled Amazon's relationship with its merchants — not one that continued to increase costs to retailers while capitalizing on their monopolization of search traffic.
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"Facebook was looking for a way to discredit us so they weaponized false allegations of anti-Semitism to distract from the critique, which they're actually quite afraid of, which is the critique of monopolization," said Matt Stoller, policy director at the Open Markets Institute.
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By carefully analyzing the arguments made by the patent owner to the PTO during the patent application process (a collection of papers called the "prosecution history"), the FTC moved the district court ahead of trial for partial summary judgment on its illegal monopolization claim.
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Artists like Vermibus, OX, and myself along with activist groups like Brandalism and R.A.P. see the monopolization of our public visual environment by commercial concerns as a way for corporate media to set the terms of our cultural and political discourse through extreme repetition.
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In practice, it's much uglier, and by no means did the Founding Fathers intend for patents to be utilized toward incremental monopolization ploys, but rather a means to serve the public as an incentive to share knowledge for the progress and benefits of science and commerce.
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As monopolization has returned in full force, the Democrats now hold less power at the state and local level than they have at any point since the 1920s—the very decade that sparked the rise of the chain store and the onset of the Great Depression.
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In other words, the long-term goal would be to cordon off the Wild West of the internet by dividing former free speech zones into spaces controlled by monetized, corporatized entities — a system that would also favor monopolization and unfair competition by industry giants over small internet startups.
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A document issued by the Justice Department called "An Antitrust Primer for Federal Law Enforcement Personnel" notes that Section 22015 violations "are generally not prosecuted criminally," but if there is enough evidence to show attempted monopolization then there is nothing to prevent prosecutors from pursuing a criminal case.
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Failing monopolization, or basic business stuff like "making money," SoftBank can at least keep up the smoke-and-mirrors long enough to do an IPO so it, a startup's founders, and other early investors make a lot of money; later investors, employees, customers, and the public at large get screwed.
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"Monopolization across the economy, I think, is the core reason for all of these economic and social problems that we're talking about that for years have been a headwind into progress on anything from raising wages to entrepreneurship to reducing political polarization to reducing corruption and power in politics," Miller said.
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Between those three things, the direct evidence of growing concentration, increase in capital share of income, and this mysterious wedge between what appears to be the private sector's assessment of investment opportunities and the cost of capital, it makes sense to think that monopolization is a big and growing issue.
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Certain companies have grown so powerful that the fear of earning an injunction for monopolization offenses no longer works as a successful deterrent, prompting the need for "serious financial consequences," Klobuchar, who is seeking the Democratic nomination for next year's presidential election, said in a statement about the bill on her website.
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" The long-term implications of these actions for the conflict is menacing, with the panel concluding that South Sudanese increasingly perceive the conflict "as a zero-sum struggle where the exclusion of competing tribes from political power and the monopolization of resources for personal gain have become the principal aims of the belligerents.
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Rather than specifying any particular analysis to address worries about monopolization, the Clayton Act simply bars one company from acquiring another when "the effect of such acquisition may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly" and does not offer much in the way of further definition or elaboration of what that means.
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"Repair is an important frontier for several reasons: it creates local jobs that are at risk from monopolization; it diverts waste from landfills; it increases the longevity and value of our property, and creates secondary markets that benefit people with low incomes—making it key to bridging the digital divide in an age of mass inequality," Doctorow argues.
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