SOMO’s Post

This week Alix and Prathm interviewed Michelle Meagher about the buffet of antitrust cases against Google right now. In this episode Michelle gives much needed context on the history of antitrust and how we got here. It started as a tool to prevent concentration of power and the emergence of monopolies, and then was undermined by conservatives who reshaped antirust into a way to prevent monopolies from ripping off consumers. But now old school antitrust is back. For the time being at least. Learn more from Michelle about what this new resurgence means and what she hopes comes next…