384: The Facebook Antitrust Case
Sep 09, 2024•54 min•Ep. 384
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Episode description
Geoff Manne (International Center for Law & Economics) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discuss the many, many flaws in the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta (Facebook).
A crossover episode with the Washington Legal Foundation / TechFreedom Tech in the Courts series.
Topics include:
- The ontology of Facebook
- Social networking: it’s not 2008 anymore
- The FTC’s made-up market
- The WhatsApp Catch-22
- Has Facebook been enshittified?
- Product design by government: bad idea!
- Growing startups: hard, actually
Links:
The Feds Unfriend Facebook: Why the FTC’s Meta Antitrust Case Should Fail
Tech Policy Podcast 357: The Amazon Antitrust Case
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