What lobbyists tell lawmakers: Surveillance pricing empowers consumers. What CEOs tell Wall Street: We can skip price-matching, auction tickets at each person’s pain point, and turn basics into premium.

🚨NEW EPISODE🚨 Abigail Slater is reshaping conservative antitrust enforcement from the ground up. In our new episode, she discusses how a vigorous enforcement approach protects free markets for forgotten Americans.

Thank god. Please hug an engineer for me, Joseph Jerome.

Antitrust trials used to go pretty hard. A DOJ lawyer apparently recited this speech verbatim to the jury in the old Socony-Vacuum case (late 1930s):

"If doesn’t matter how tailored you make your legislation. If you want to do antitrust reform, there’s privacy. If it’s privacy, we need to worry about competition. It’s a game of whack-a-mole. Tech companies like the way things are.” Well said, Joel Thayer.

So Corbin K. Barthold nailed why folks outside tech want AI regulated. His entire conversation with Matt Perault is worth a listen!

Great episode of The Monopoly Report with @JoeJerome and Kamyl Bazbaz of DuckDuckGo. If you’re into the intersection of privacy and competition, the browser wars, or the future of search, it's definitely worth a listen.