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Antitrust & Trade Reg.

Mar. 7, 2023

Private antitrust enforcement key to reining in Big Tech

Big Tech is employing the same lobbying playbook used for decades to stifle antitrust enforcement – and winning. Private antitrust enforcers, therefore, are filling the void to ensure competitive markets on giant tech platforms.

Joseph Tabacco

Partner
Berman Tabacco

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Michael Dark

Senior Counsel
Berman Tabacco

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Alexander S. Vahdat

Associate
Berman Tabacco

Phone: (415) 433-3200

Email: avahdat@bermantabacco.com

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Organized business interests and their political allies have often been able to hobble proposals to increase public enforcement of antitrust laws. This strategy has successfully played out over the last two years with efforts to avert increased scrutiny of Big Tech practices that may harm competition in the United States. But even as political support for increased public enforcement dwindles, consumers and their advocates are looking to private enforcement to accomp...

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