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"Google blocked new app stores from its Android phones for years ..."
#MattStoller, 2026
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why
Does Matt mean the phones they made themselves, like the Nexus and the Pixel? If so, that would be news to me. It's not hard to believe, but I couldn't confirm it with a quick web search or WP spelunk.
Or is he referring to the imminent changes that will block third-party app sources on all vanilla Androids? Or, less likely, is he confusing Android with iThings?
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"Google blocked new app stores from its Android phones for years ..."
#MattStoller, 2026
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why
Does Matt mean the phones they made themselves, like the Nexus and the Pixel? If so, that would be news to me. It's not hard to believe, but I couldn't confirm it with a quick web search or WP spelunk.
Or is he referring to the imminent changes that will block third-party app sources on all vanilla Androids? Or, less likely, is he confusing Android with iThings?
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"This John Deere case should be easy. That it’s not shows that politically and intellectually, we have still only nibbled around the edges of our core social dysfunctions. At some point, and it’ll probably be soon, there’s going to be a reckoning. This situation is not sustainable. And if something can’t go on forever, it won’t."
#MattStoller, 2026
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why
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"This John Deere case should be easy. That it’s not shows that politically and intellectually, we have still only nibbled around the edges of our core social dysfunctions. At some point, and it’ll probably be soon, there’s going to be a reckoning. This situation is not sustainable. And if something can’t go on forever, it won’t."
#MattStoller, 2026
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why
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"And on the consumer side, as more and more things were embedded with digital technology, corporations could lock down and control the user experience. A 'capital light' model of production, and an extractive monopolistic sales and repair strategy, are key parts of the Number Go Up rule, in which America prioritizes only economic activity that supports higher equity prices. "
#MattStoller, 2026
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why
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"And on the consumer side, as more and more things were embedded with digital technology, corporations could lock down and control the user experience. A 'capital light' model of production, and an extractive monopolistic sales and repair strategy, are key parts of the Number Go Up rule, in which America prioritizes only economic activity that supports higher equity prices. "
#MattStoller, 2026
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why
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"Prior to the 1980s, American companies built things domestically, because they risked losing control of the technology if they built things abroad using contractors. But when we tightened IP rules, and embedded those in global trade agreements, it became possible for say, Apple to make its products in China using someone else’s capital while maintaining strict control and high profit margins"
#MattStoller, 2026
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why
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"Prior to the 1980s, American companies built things domestically, because they risked losing control of the technology if they built things abroad using contractors. But when we tightened IP rules, and embedded those in global trade agreements, it became possible for say, Apple to make its products in China using someone else’s capital while maintaining strict control and high profit margins"
#MattStoller, 2026
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/06/champerty-loves-company/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: In praise of vultures (06 May 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/06/champerty-loves-company/
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WSJ: Lobbyists Easily Destroyed Any Semi-Serious Antitrust Enforcers Left In MAGA
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WSJ: Lobbyists Easily Destroyed Any Semi-Serious Antitrust Enforcers Left In MAGA
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Trump DOJ Wimps Out On Ticketmaster, Again Revealing Hollowness Of MAGA ‘Antitrust’
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Trump DOJ Wimps Out On Ticketmaster, Again Revealing Hollowness Of MAGA ‘Antitrust’
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AI is good at certain things, like legal document review, where human beings are modeling and then verifying the output. It is terrible at producing reliable products. And that’s not going to get better, AI algorithms are big guessing machines, they do not “know” anything and cannot understand truth.
#MattStoller #AI #Utility #God
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-stop-telling-me -
AI is good at certain things, like legal document review, where human beings are modeling and then verifying the output. It is terrible at producing reliable products. And that’s not going to get better, AI algorithms are big guessing machines, they do not “know” anything and cannot understand truth.
#MattStoller #AI #Utility #God
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-stop-telling-me -
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Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/21/cod-marxism/
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Pluralistic: Google's AI pricing plan (21 Jan 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/21/cod-marxism/
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#MattStoller So what’s actually going on? Is Trump sincere? Is he unveiling a real new agenda? To answer that question, I want to offer a fourth event, one that few outside of the antitrust world noticed. And that is, the largest real estate brokerage in America, Compass, cleared its $1.6 billion purchase of Anywhere Real Estate, which owns Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Corcoran and Sotheby’s International Realty. The deal cleared much earlier than the companies themselves expected it to. Why? Corruption.
The head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, Gail Slater, wanted to launch an extended review of the merger to weigh whether it was anticompetitive, the people familiar with the matter said. Compass and its lawyers appealed above her, to the office of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, arguing that any worries could be addressed without an investigation. Blanche’s office agreed, the people said.
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#MattStoller So what’s actually going on? Is Trump sincere? Is he unveiling a real new agenda? To answer that question, I want to offer a fourth event, one that few outside of the antitrust world noticed. And that is, the largest real estate brokerage in America, Compass, cleared its $1.6 billion purchase of Anywhere Real Estate, which owns Century 21, Coldwell Banker, Corcoran and Sotheby’s International Realty. The deal cleared much earlier than the companies themselves expected it to. Why? Corruption.
The head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division, Gail Slater, wanted to launch an extended review of the merger to weigh whether it was anticompetitive, the people familiar with the matter said. Compass and its lawyers appealed above her, to the office of Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, arguing that any worries could be addressed without an investigation. Blanche’s office agreed, the people said.
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@wdlindsy Not sure if this is in your thread.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-george-w-trump
#mattstoller
Just as there is increasing support for cynical and nihilistic figures today, many in the 1920s felt warmly towards Mellon, Mussolini, and authoritarianism in general. U.S. Steel chairman Judge Elbert Gary encouraged Americans to “learn something by the movement which has taken place in Italy,” while progressive and New Republic founder Herbert Croly called Mussolini as substituting “purposive behavior for drifting and visions of a great future for collective pettiness and discouragement.”To be sure, there were opponents of Mellon and the super-wealthy, like New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tennessee populist Cordell Hull, as well as a Congressman elected in 1928 from Texarkana, Wright Patman. In 1929, Patman sought to impeach Mellon over self-dealing and bad stewardship of the Federal Reserve. But this crusade was seen as quixotic and absurd.
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@wdlindsy Not sure if this is in your thread.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-george-w-trump
#mattstoller
Just as there is increasing support for cynical and nihilistic figures today, many in the 1920s felt warmly towards Mellon, Mussolini, and authoritarianism in general. U.S. Steel chairman Judge Elbert Gary encouraged Americans to “learn something by the movement which has taken place in Italy,” while progressive and New Republic founder Herbert Croly called Mussolini as substituting “purposive behavior for drifting and visions of a great future for collective pettiness and discouragement.”To be sure, there were opponents of Mellon and the super-wealthy, like New York Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Tennessee populist Cordell Hull, as well as a Congressman elected in 1928 from Texarkana, Wright Patman. In 1929, Patman sought to impeach Mellon over self-dealing and bad stewardship of the Federal Reserve. But this crusade was seen as quixotic and absurd.
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DEBATE: Do People Take "DEFUND" Seriously? (w/ #MattStoller & #AlecKaratkatsanis)
#BriahnaJoyGray #BadFaith #DefundThePolice #AbolishThePolice
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Pluralistic: It's still censorship (even if it doesn't violate the First Amendment) (22 Sep 2025)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/22/one-throat-to-choke/
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An excellent 5 minute video about AI's theft of #copyright material. Sorry if it is on #X. Recommended by #MattStoller.
#AIhttps://x.com/matthewstoller/status/1947664726093177258?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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#Epstein as a political get rich quick scheme, #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-jeff-epstein-maga
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#Epstein as a political get rich quick scheme, #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-jeff-epstein-maga
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#Trump's #FTC Is Actually GOOD? (w/ #MattStoller)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l66CsuWbU6E
#BriahnaJoyGray #BadFaith #Facebook #MarkZuckerberg #Instagram #Threads #WhatsApp #China #Geopolitics
Stoller doesn't know squat about how tariffs may impact China.
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It's McKinsey's world. We just live here.
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
It's McKinsey's world. We just live here.
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
McKinsey is behind the majority of illegal mergers, the majority of pharma patent fraud, and the majority of illegal exclusive dealing cases. They keep asthma inhaler prices high, write strategy for ALL THREE Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and all five big defense contractors.
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
McKinsey is behind the majority of illegal mergers, the majority of pharma patent fraud, and the majority of illegal exclusive dealing cases. They keep asthma inhaler prices high, write strategy for ALL THREE Pharmacy Benefit Managers, and all five big defense contractors.
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
McKinsey pulls the strings and siphons billions out of the Puerto Rico bankruptcy, ICE kids in cages, Space Force boondoggles and more. The US government pays $3m/year for a fresh-out-of-college McKinsey "consultant."
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
McKinsey pulls the strings and siphons billions out of the Puerto Rico bankruptcy, ICE kids in cages, Space Force boondoggles and more. The US government pays $3m/year for a fresh-out-of-college McKinsey "consultant."
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
A real DOGE: investigate and prosecute McKinsey for the corruption it enabled in the federal government.
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
A real DOGE: investigate and prosecute McKinsey for the corruption it enabled in the federal government.
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
A real DOGE: Fire every McKinsey consultant in the federal government
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
A real DOGE: Fire every McKinsey consultant in the federal government
by #MattStoller
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/cutting-government-is-easy-if-you -
3rd big trial vs #Google on Monday.
"The essence of antitrust law is to try to keep the system working by recognizing that, at certain points, some companies may get too big for their own good, they're self-imploding, or the technology may become so dominant that it's just crushing all other elements where there can be innovation." - Judge Leonie Brinkema, 2023, United States v. Google LLC
#MattStoller updates #Biden admin cases v Google:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-post-google-world -
3rd big trial vs #Google on Monday.
"The essence of antitrust law is to try to keep the system working by recognizing that, at certain points, some companies may get too big for their own good, they're self-imploding, or the technology may become so dominant that it's just crushing all other elements where there can be innovation." - Judge Leonie Brinkema, 2023, United States v. Google LLC
#MattStoller updates #Biden admin cases v Google:
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/a-post-google-world -
"#Trump and #Harris both read polls about #inflation. To that end, Trump's general approach is to argue that cost is driven by govt #regulation, limits on oil drilling and high #CorporateTaxes. Whereas Harris sees the issue in terms of #BigBusiness having too much power to set prices. In other words, both articulate a frustration with centralized power, though Trump points only at govt, while Harris points both at large corporations and govt." #MattStoller #economics
https://pocket.co/share/e8f8c942-5de1-4ba1-8ef1-950731cd0150 -
"#Trump and #Harris both read polls about #inflation. To that end, Trump's general approach is to argue that cost is driven by govt #regulation, limits on oil drilling and high #CorporateTaxes. Whereas Harris sees the issue in terms of #BigBusiness having too much power to set prices. In other words, both articulate a frustration with centralized power, though Trump points only at govt, while Harris points both at large corporations and govt." #MattStoller #economics
https://pocket.co/share/e8f8c942-5de1-4ba1-8ef1-950731cd0150 -
I haven't been watching, but #MattStoller pointed to this speech by Teamsters Union prez Sean O'Brien at the Republican Convention. It's an eye opener. Some tepid cheering from delegates when he takes on Big Tech's resistance to labor unions (especially Amazon), blasts the Chamber of Commerce as a union for Big Business, and stands up for workers. Claims he's not beholden to any party. He better be speaking at the Democratic Convention.
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More from post about DOJ v Apple
"Like the rest of Big Tech, Apple is less a technology development firm than a middleman, standing in between the relationships of consumers and businesses, taking a piece from each. And it strong-arms anyone who tries to disrupt its role as that critical middleman, using coercive contractual terms, denial of access to key technologies, or outright deception via its impressive branding."
--- #MattStoller https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-antitrust-suit-matters
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More from post about DOJ v Apple
"Like the rest of Big Tech, Apple is less a technology development firm than a middleman, standing in between the relationships of consumers and businesses, taking a piece from each. And it strong-arms anyone who tries to disrupt its role as that critical middleman, using coercive contractual terms, denial of access to key technologies, or outright deception via its impressive branding."
--- #MattStoller https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-antitrust-suit-matters
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https://youtu.be/HxUqmNb675k –– 'Krystal and Saagar are joined by Matt Stoller to discuss Apple being sued for monopolistic practices.'
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https://youtu.be/HxUqmNb675k –– 'Krystal and Saagar are joined by Matt Stoller to discuss Apple being sued for monopolistic practices.'
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" …when a super app offers popular mini programs, ‘iOS stickiness goes down.’”"
#DOJ files BIG antitrust case against Apple. Great #MattStoller
blog post about it:https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/why-the-apple-antitrust-suit-matters
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CW: Long thread/35
I like all of these suggestions! We're certainly enjoying a more activist set of regulators, who are more interested in Big Tech, than we've seen in generations.
But they are grossly under-resourced even without giving them additional duties. As #MattStoller points out, "the DOJ's Antitrust Division has fewer people enforcing anti-monopoly laws in a $24 trillion economy than the Smithsonian Museum has security guards."
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/congressional-republicans-to-defund
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