If this happens, it would be really impactful
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NOT under Trump. Period. More regulation and less freedom for corps? Absolutely not.
What do you mean. Do you even know this guy or are you pulling statements out of your ass?
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I do know the guy. He’s a reasonable and well-spoken idealist pro-consumer guy that is all in on fair business, respecting the users/consumers and giving them the freedom for using their devices/software however they want. He deserves total and unconventional respect from me. I would vote for him any day to speak on my behalf on this topic.
Already knowing that Trump is going to alleviate legal pressure on big tech and other corps in his upcoming term as a president, i highly doubt that he’ll allow someone like Louis to have any say in making corps accountable for their abuse of consumer rights. That’s what i meant.
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This is what Andy Yen (CEO of Proton) said of Trump’s pick:
https://x.com/andyyen/status/1864436449942110660
Great pick by@realDonaldTrump. 10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned. People forget that the current antitrust actions against Big Tech were started under the first Trump admin.
https://x.com/andyyen/status/1864672128580083926
Trump illegally entering Switzerland would be ironic, our immigration laws are tougher than his wildest proposals. Jokes aside, @ProtonPrivacy doesn’t comply with US subpoenas, it doesn’t matter if it’s Biden or Trump in power
Andy Yen also reposted this on X:
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President-elect Trump’s selection of Gail Slater to serve as the Justice Department’s antitrust chief is drawing praise from anti-monopoly advocates – who said it sent a strong signal Google and Apple will remain under significant pressure as blockbuster cases against them play out.
The Irish-born Slater is an Oxford-trained attorney and antitrust hawk who served as a top economic adviser over the last year to Vice President-elect JD Vance. During that time, Vance has called for Google to be broken up and heaped praise on FTC Chair Lina Khan, a Democrat, for going after Big Tech.
“Google should be shaking in its boots” after Slater’s selection, according to Mike Davis, a former top Senate Judiciary Committee lawyer and founder of the conservative Internet Accountability Project.
“Gail Slater is a close personal friend and President Trump’s perfect choice to lead the antitrust division,” Davis told The Post. “She is a rare combination of brilliant antitrust attorney and ‘America First’ Trump loyalist.”
As head of the DOJ’s antitrust division, Slater will inherit a slate of high-profile battles. She will spearhead the agency’s push for remedies after a federal judge ruled in August that Google has an illegal monopoly over online search.
“It is our sincere hope that the Trump Administration will build on that success, and Gail Slater is a strong candidate to continue that work,” Haworth added.
Elsewhere, Matt Stoller, an outspoken Google critic and researcher at the American Economic Liberties Project, wrote on X that Slater’s selection “is a very powerful statement that Trump wants to take on Big Tech.”
Aside from her work with Vance, Slater has recently been advising the Trump transition team on tech and antitrust policy. She also served on the National Economic Council during Trump’s first term in office – which is when the DOJ first brought its landmark case against Google’s search empire.
Slater did in-house stints at Fox Corp. and Roku and also had a lengthy tenure as an attorney at the FTC, where she sought to block Whole Foods’ acquisition of grocer Wild Oats and later served as an adviser to then-FTC Commissioner Julie Brill.
Despite being viewed a Big Tech antagonist, Slater also worked at the now-defunct trade group Internet Association, which once represented the likes of Google and Amazon.
The DOJ also has a pending case targeting Google’s alleged digital advertising monopoly and another targeting Tim Cook-led Apple’s iPhone dominance.
As The Post reported, Slater had also been seen as a top candidate to serve as Trump’s Federal Trade Commission chair before landing the DOJ gig.
Trump signaled that Slater will take the fight to Big Tech in his Truth Social post announcing her selection.
“Big Tech has run wild for years, stifling competition in our most innovative sector and, as we all know, using its market power to crack down on the rights of so many Americans, as well as those of Little Tech!” Trump wrote.
“I was proud to fight these abuses in my First Term, and our Department of Justice’s antitrust team will continue that work under Gail’s leadership,” Trump added.
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Huh. This says otherwise. I was under the impression that one of the first things that Trump did after the election results have been released was to announce haulting some current legal actions against big tech. Now i’m not even sure what led me to think so.
I’m still going to be rooting for Louis regardless, but with much more hope now.
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Oh crap, I just made a political post on this forum… @henry , maybe lock this one, before it dissolves into madness? (Also, making thing an asction-social-post might be good, but you decide)
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What was wrong with the posts? No one is being rude to each other. They are simply articles expressing that Trump has been or continues to move in a positive direction regarding antitrust.
Therefore, the possibility of Louis Armstrong being appointed to the FTC is not far-fetched, which is precisely what your post was about. Naturally, some political discussions will arise since it is a government agency.
However, I fail to see any malicious or angry comments being made. That would justify locking it at the moment. As people are just discussing and asking questions at the moment.
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Lina Khan was doing such a great job at slapping some big tech faces that if Trump wanted the momentum to keep going he should absolutely keep her. That said Rossmann would go medieval on their metaphorical asses and in the end I don’t think Trump really wants to enforce anti thrust. The reason: he wants AI and crypto to align with his economic plans and shame China as hard as he can, for that you just need to turn Silicon Valley into some sort of a Yes men cabinet.
This is going to get wild really fast.