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Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

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Re: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

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Post by puppable »

mrkramer wrote: post #10

>The economy is booming under President Biden’s leadership. I mean I'm not into politics but this kind of self promotion is ridiculous. >Lower prescription drug prices by supporting state and tribal programs that will import safe and cheaper drugs from Canada. When I hear Canada and their health system/indsutry I always recall this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJOO9I9kvwo >Calls on the leading antitrust agencies,…

I mean, "Obama was in the office from 2009 to 2017" doesn't exactly feel like as much of a slick gotcha when the language also explicitly includes the timeframe of his presidency and refers to "administrations" in the plural

Re: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

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puppable wrote: post #11
mrkramer wrote: post #10

>The economy is booming under President Biden’s leadership. I mean I'm not into politics but this kind of self promotion is ridiculous. >Lower prescription drug prices by supporting state and tribal programs that will import safe and cheaper drugs from Canada. When I hear Canada and their health system/indsutry I always recall this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJOO9I9kvwo >Calls on the leading antitrust agencies,…

I mean, "Obama was in the office from 2009 to 2017" doesn't exactly feel like as much of a slick gotcha when the language also explicitly includes the timeframe of his presidency and refers to "administrations" in the plural

>Over the past ten years, the largest tech platforms have acquired hundreds of companies

Obama was two times in the office in the last 10 years and Trump once. Why Democrats didn't urge Obama and FTC to stop "harmful" acquisitions in the 8 years time of Obama's presidency?

Re: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

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Post by unstatusthequo »

jeffbee wrote: post #2

Seeing a lot of "big tech" takes on the order but if you read it, "big tech" is a minor focus of the order. It's the last of five named industries and you literally have to scroll all the way to the bottom to read about it. That seems fitting to me, since America has dozens of problems that are much more serious than the fact that Google has web server logs.

I get your point overall, but Google’s “web server logs” sure do build one hell of a profile about someone.

Re: Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy

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Post by jzoch »

mrkramer wrote: post #12
puppable wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean, "Obama was in the office from 2009 to 2017" doesn't exactly feel like as much of a slick gotcha when the language also explicitly includes the timeframe of his presidency and refers to "administrations" in the plural

>Over the past ten years, the largest tech platforms have acquired hundreds of companies Obama was two times in the office in the last 10 years and Trump once. Why Democrats didn't urge Obama and FTC to stop "harmful" acquisitions in the 8 years time of Obama's presidency?

Do you really think there wasnt a single person identifying as a Democrat who opposed acquisitions? Not everything is black and white - voting for Obama does not force you to agree with EVERYTHING he did.
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