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“The question will arise and arise in your day, though perhaps not fully in mine: Which shall rule — wealth or man? Which shall lead — money or intellect? Who shall fill public stations — educated and patriotic freemen or the feudal serfs of corporate capital?”

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Author:Edward G. Ryan

“Google, you fucking ripped off the iPhone, wholesale ripped us off. Grand theft. I will spend my last dying breath if I need to, and I will spend every penny of Apple’s $40 billion in the bank, to right this wrong. I’m going to destroy Android, because it’s a stolen product. I’m willing to go thermonuclear war on this. They are scared to death, because they know they are guilty. Outside of Search, Google’s products—Android, Google Docs—are shit.”

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Book:Steve Jobs

Source: Steve Jobs

“Today’s Big Tech barons have benefited from lax antitrust enforcement and outdated antitrust laws, from cozy relationships with supposed regulators, and from special protections in the law. All this must end.”

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Author:Josh Hawley

“Antitrust has become a legal backwater in recent decades. But the curse of bigness is back, and antitrust enforcement must come back with it, updated to perform its original, republican function: protecting the independence of the American people from oligarchic control.”

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Author:Josh Hawley

“Liberty produces wealth, and wealth destroys liberty.”

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Book:Wealth Against Commonwealth

Source: Wealth Against Commonwealth

“Economists have their glories, but i do not believe that antitrust law is one of them.”

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Author:George Stigler

“Antitrust law isn't about protecting competing businesses from each other, it's about protecting competition itself on behalf of the public.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Changing technologies, changing marketplaces, and even changing trends in anti-competitive practices have all presented challenges to antitrust enforcement.”

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Author:Al Franken

“Most Americans don’t think about antitrust law when they look at their cable bill, flip channels on TV, or worry about what their favorite website knows about them. But they should.”

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Author:Al Franken

“I have the most profound respect for the Department of Justice and the FTC. We in Europe are a younger and I would say junior institution to the historical antitrust experience of the US.”

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Author:Mario Monti

“Under the antitrust laws, a man becomes a criminal from the moment he goes into business, no matter what he does. If he complies with one of these laws, he faces criminal prosecution under several others. For instance, if he charges prices which some bureaucrats judge as too high, he can be prosecuted for monopoly or for a successful 'intent to monopolize'; if he charges prices lower than those of his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'unfair competition' or 'restraint of trade'; and if he charges the same prices as his competitors, he can be prosecuted for 'collusion' or 'conspiracy.'”

Source: Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

“Antitrust laws ought to be deployed, not against business, but to bust this two-party monopoly, which subverts competition in government and rewards the colluding quislings with sinecures in perpetuity.”

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Author:Ilana Mercer

“We can speculate on what's likely, but what's needed is an investigation. And speculation is no substitute for facts. As a former prosecutor, I prosecuted antitrust cases civilly. And I can say that antitrust investigations merit searching, penetrating scrutiny and investigation. That's what we need here.”

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Author:Richard Blumenthal

“Like IBM, the company [Microsoft] seems to have been spooked by the federal antitrust action against it and became increasingly sclerotic and less inventive.”

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Author:Stephen Manes

“Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Vigilant and effective antitrust enforcement today is preferable to the heavy hand of government regulation of the Internet tomorrow.”

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Author:Orrin Hatch

“My current goal is to change the way we think about antitrust and anti-monopoly.”

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Author:Zephyr Teachout

“We need to use antitrust laws. You know, we need to create real media again.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“It's time to use the antitrust laws and to break up this conglomerate corporate media that has now poisoned our democracy to the point that our very survival is at risk for the kinds of monstrosities that are flourishing in our corporate media dominated discussion.”

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Author:Jill Stein

“The antitrust litigation currently in the federal courts in the U.S. against Monsanto will be the test case in the life sciences, just as the Microsoft case was the test case in the information sciences.”

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Author:Jeremy Rifkin

“A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.”

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Author:Eliot Spitzer

“We had planned to integrate a Web browser with our operating system as far back as 1993( filing its first court responses to federal antitrust)”

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Author:Bill Gates

“Beware of that profound enemy of the free enterprise system who pays lip-service to free competition, but also labels every antitrust prosecution as a persecution.”

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Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“This antitrust thing will blow over.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“You can take this as a gentle word of warning, if you like. We are just at the beginning of a period of more intensive antitrust enforcement.”

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Author:Neelie Kroes

“As freak legislation, the antitrust laws stand alone. Nobody knows what it is they forbid.”

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Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments. There are alternatives to ITA’s software: both the GDSs but also upstarts such as the U.K.’s Everbread Ltd., which has relationships with 60 low-cost carriers, and Vayant Travel Technologies LLC of New York. It isn’t clear, therefore, that competition would be reduced even if Googled didn’t honor ITA’s contracts with other travel companies.”

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Author:Peter Gallagher

“The standard formulation on remedy is that it ought to cure past violations and prevent their recurrence. That's what antitrust is all about.”

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Author:Charles James

“The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.”

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Author:Jeremy Rifkin

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