[soumyadeb]

Citation? FTC against Google doesn't produce much results on Google (kind of an irony :))

Have seen FTC going against Amazon because the FTC chair had published prior work against Amazon's practices. Not defending Amazon but FB/Google are a much bigger threat than Amazon.

[coldpie]

Citation for what, increased anti-trust activity from the FTC over the last two years? Sure, here's one article:

> Private equity deals and transactions in the healthcare and technology sectors continue to attract heightened antitrust scrutiny...

> The US agencies have also demonstrated an increased interest in challenging vertical transactions.

> In January 2022, for example, the FTC sued to block Lockheed Martin's US$4.4 billion proposed acquisition of Aerojet, which the parties subsequently abandoned.

> Increased enforcement, combined with the agencies' reluctance to approve remedies, has created an uncertain environment where commercial parties should be increasingly prepared to litigate mergers.

> The ramping up of antitrust enforcement in 2022...

https://www.whitecase.com/insight-our-thinking/us-ma-fy-2022...

Here's another:

> Since 2020, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) have filed multiple lawsuits against major tech companies...

> "The agencies have started laying the foundations for a more interventionist stance over the last two years, and this year is when we'll start to see some of those efforts come to fruition -- or be stopped in their tracks by the courts," Kass said.

https://www.techtarget.com/searchcio/news/252528606/FTC-push...

I'm sure you can find more.

[kyrra]

Except they keep losing cases. ex:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-appeals-court-opens-docket-...

Or Judges fast-tracking lawsuits to allow those being prosecuted by the FTC to get things over quicker, ex: https://www.reuters.com/legal/illumina-wins-fast-track-appea...

And I think the biggest blow may actually come about because of the SEC lawsuit that will be heard this upcoming term at SCOTUS: https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-supreme-court-decide-legali..., which will likely heavily reign in the power of administrator judges and the ability for an agency to keep initial fights in-house (blocking litigants from taking fights to the normal courts).

[coldpie]

Yeah. You can't expect every swing to be a home run, but you also miss every swing you don't take. My point is at least they're trying to do something now, unlike previous decades. It will take some time and effort to bring the agency back around to being effective after decades of inactivity. That's not going to happen if future administrations put the FTC back on the bench.

[soumyadeb]

Citation for this statement.

>The FTC has been more active on anti-trust issues in the past two years than at any time in the past 30

FTC being more active in past two years over previous 30 is a strong statement.