{"id":110790,"date":"2020-08-03T10:24:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/secret-documents-from-us-antitrust-probe-reveal-big-techs-plot-to-control-or-crush-the-competition"},"modified":"2020-08-03T10:24:14","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T17:24:14","slug":"secret-documents-from-us-antitrust-probe-reveal-big-techs-plot-to-control-or-crush-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/secret-documents-from-us-antitrust-probe-reveal-big-techs-plot-to-control-or-crush-the-competition","title":{"rendered":"Secret documents from US antitrust probe reveal big tech\u2019s plot to control or crush the competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WBFDQvIrWYM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Too bad.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Nearly 500 pages of evidence were made public during the House Judiciary\u2019s marathon hearing this week on potential anti-competitive actions by <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/amazon\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >Amazon,<\/a>  <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/facebook\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >Facebook,<\/a> Google and <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/crunchbase.com\/organization\/apple\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"organization\" >Apple<\/a>. We\u2019ve collected them here with added context and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/471003518\/House-Antitrust-Subcommittee-Documents-Amazon-Apple-Facebook-Google\">an omnibus, searchable version<\/a> for anyone who\u2019d rather not juggle four dozen documents.<\/p>\n<p>The emails, chat logs and other communications listed here <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/online-platforms-and-market-power\/#1\">trickled out online<\/a> as the hearings went on. Many are internal documents that were never meant to be exposed publicly \u2014 for instance, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg telling a colleague that \u201cwe can likely always just buy any competitive startups\u201d shortly before acquiring Instagram in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Congressional investigators wield considerable power in compelling the release of such documents, even against the will of the companies, which would almost certainly never provide such self-incriminating information to journalists. As such, these documents contain all manner of useful information, most of it providing insight into the otherwise opaque thinking of executives as their companies made key decisions about growing their businesses \u2014 and hint at strategies traditionally employed by monopolies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too bad. Nearly 500 pages of evidence were made public during the House Judiciary\u2019s marathon hearing this week on potential anti-competitive actions by Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple. We\u2019ve collected them here with added context and an omnibus, searchable version for anyone who\u2019d rather not juggle four dozen documents. The emails, chat logs and other [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}