Misleading clickbait heading, article mentions that 4 years of blog content were blanket deleted and then randomly implies that certain tech issues were targeted among all the other (also-deleted) posts.
The posts in question are public and available here: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog
In fact, the headline kind of underplays the significance -- everything in that time period was deleted! Including posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies, among everything else that was deleted.
A good time to check how Trump's Crypto assets are going ... You know, the untraceable virtual money that can be transferred back into real money. NOT to say that a person like that would be transactional.
When technofeudal corporate owners don't just capture the regulators but install lackeys in service of them. This is a natural progression towards authoritarianism and corruption.
It has been theoretically tamped down with independent agencies and watchdogs.
What's happening isn't just business as usual, it's unusual. The last president we had that openly defied the courts and the law was Andrew Jackson. And even he wasn't so brazen.
What we are finding out is that rules don't mean anything without enforcement and the US had a particular unaddressed threat in a party that doesn't care about the law and an executive agency filled with sycophants.
What the Trump admin is doing was supposed to be resolved with impeachment and removal from office. Fat chance republicans will react accordingly.
I got the sense that Lina Kahn was a thorn to Harris as well, otherwise she would've committed to Kahn's FTC instead of leaving it ambiguous and not campaigning on her successes.
Not just FTC. The CFPB, USAID, NHS, Department of Education, Research funding to colleges, the list goes on. Anything Elon Musk has no use for is getting shut down.
Thats not really planned in Project 2025, more likely any large tech company that bent the knee to Trump will be exempt, but we shall see.
At the same time, the document discusses how large tech companies influence politics, and can harm individuals.
> Conservative approaches to antitrust and consumer protection continue to
trust markets, not government, to give people what they want and provide the
prosperity and material resources Americans need for flourishing, productive,
and meaningful lives.
> At the same time, conservatives cannot be blind to certain
developments in the American economy that appear to make government–private
sector collusion more likely, threaten vital democratic institutions, such as free
speech, and threaten the happiness and mental well-being of many Americans,
particularly children. Many, but not all, conservatives believe that these develop-
ments may warrant the FTC’s making a careful recalibration of certain aspects of
antitrust and consumer protection law and enforcement.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if it came out in 30 years that Proton was a CIA front all along, similar to Crypto AG. The CEO's outburst felt like the mask slipping a bit. Excuse me while I adjust my tinfoil hat.
What does this have to do with Israel? Why are you censoring Israel and Jewish? How does the removal of this content from the FTC mean citizens are not allowed to critique monopolies? I dislike this administration as much as the next guy but your comment isn't making much sense in my head
Your rant is filled with so many things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Homelessness, Healthcare, Ivy League, Jewish and Israeli people, Big Tech, AIPAC, and Bears oh my!
I also have no idea why you've developed the urge to censor the words "Israel" and "Jewish". They're just words... they can't hurt you.
This appears to be the flailing's of a dying ideology. Fewer and fewer people are paying attention to these extremist positions. So we get things like this; totally nonsensical rants connecting dots with imaginary red yarn in ways only a schizophrenic "true crime" enthusiast could appreciate.
It's pretty amazing to see the "conspiracy theorists" swing from the far-right to the far-left in such a short period of time.
Misleading clickbait heading, article mentions that 4 years of blog content were blanket deleted and then randomly implies that certain tech issues were targeted among all the other (also-deleted) posts. The posts in question are public and available here: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog
>Misleading clickbait heading
In fact, the headline kind of underplays the significance -- everything in that time period was deleted! Including posts critical of Amazon, Microsoft, and AI Companies, among everything else that was deleted.
>The posts in question are public and available here: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog
The deleted posts in question are not available there, because they were deleted. Blog jumps from December 2020 to March 2025.
Isn't this in violation of records keeping requirements?
Erasing history is an important tool in normalizing the (current, and many more planned) authoritarian abused of the Trump regime.
Delete everything is a good cover up if just want to delete certain posts but don’t want to make it too obvious
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The fact that they deleted everything over a 4 year period instead of just a subset made you less angry?
Would you mind explaining why?
Google and Apple will have to up their bribing to stay competitive in this new environment
A good time to check how Trump's Crypto assets are going ... You know, the untraceable virtual money that can be transferred back into real money. NOT to say that a person like that would be transactional.
No need, just get some new board members...
"How Joel Kaplan became Mark Zuckerberg’s most trusted political fixer" - https://www.ft.com/content/7a68fd7b-cae3-48ea-83bc-777731013...
When technofeudal corporate owners don't just capture the regulators but install lackeys in service of them. This is a natural progression towards authoritarianism and corruption.
I feel like the corruption part has been well and alive forever
It has been theoretically tamped down with independent agencies and watchdogs.
What's happening isn't just business as usual, it's unusual. The last president we had that openly defied the courts and the law was Andrew Jackson. And even he wasn't so brazen.
What we are finding out is that rules don't mean anything without enforcement and the US had a particular unaddressed threat in a party that doesn't care about the law and an executive agency filled with sycophants.
What the Trump admin is doing was supposed to be resolved with impeachment and removal from office. Fat chance republicans will react accordingly.
Hockeystick curve for corruption right now though.
https://archive.is/xFwdN
@dang Semi-related but why are posts about Trump firing FTC Commissioners being removed/dead
(along with everything else published during the Biden administration)
I repeatedly encourage everyone to look the network state to see what is unfolding before their eyes.
I got the sense that Lina Kahn was a thorn to Harris as well, otherwise she would've committed to Kahn's FTC instead of leaving it ambiguous and not campaigning on her successes.
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/10/24/kamala-harris-lina-...
A lot of Harris donors wanted Khan gone.
Am I right to understand this is signaling an end to the FTC, or at least on what concerns it harnessing the will of the tech giants?
Not just FTC. The CFPB, USAID, NHS, Department of Education, Research funding to colleges, the list goes on. Anything Elon Musk has no use for is getting shut down.
That's the message I got from it.
Thats not really planned in Project 2025, more likely any large tech company that bent the knee to Trump will be exempt, but we shall see.
At the same time, the document discusses how large tech companies influence politics, and can harm individuals.
> Conservative approaches to antitrust and consumer protection continue to trust markets, not government, to give people what they want and provide the prosperity and material resources Americans need for flourishing, productive, and meaningful lives.
> At the same time, conservatives cannot be blind to certain developments in the American economy that appear to make government–private sector collusion more likely, threaten vital democratic institutions, such as free speech, and threaten the happiness and mental well-being of many Americans, particularly children. Many, but not all, conservatives believe that these develop- ments may warrant the FTC’s making a careful recalibration of certain aspects of antitrust and consumer protection law and enforcement.
https://static.project2025.org/2025_MandateForLeadership_CHA...
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I wouldn't at all be surprised if it came out in 30 years that Proton was a CIA front all along, similar to Crypto AG. The CEO's outburst felt like the mask slipping a bit. Excuse me while I adjust my tinfoil hat.
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What does this have to do with Israel? Why are you censoring Israel and Jewish? How does the removal of this content from the FTC mean citizens are not allowed to critique monopolies? I dislike this administration as much as the next guy but your comment isn't making much sense in my head
Your rant is filled with so many things that have absolutely nothing to do with each other. Homelessness, Healthcare, Ivy League, Jewish and Israeli people, Big Tech, AIPAC, and Bears oh my!
I also have no idea why you've developed the urge to censor the words "Israel" and "Jewish". They're just words... they can't hurt you.
This appears to be the flailing's of a dying ideology. Fewer and fewer people are paying attention to these extremist positions. So we get things like this; totally nonsensical rants connecting dots with imaginary red yarn in ways only a schizophrenic "true crime" enthusiast could appreciate.
It's pretty amazing to see the "conspiracy theorists" swing from the far-right to the far-left in such a short period of time.
> outed by Jewi-sh donors
Tones of racism
It is possible to criticise Zionism - and call out Israel for its racism and apartheid -without being racist ourselves.
Israel really wants the whole world to conflate "Israeli", "Jewish" and "Zionist", but it is a lie.
We have no problems with people's ethnicity nor religion
We have a problem with war, colonisation, ethnic cleansing and the re-emergence of apartheid