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on Thursday, seeking to break up what officials call an unlawful monopoly that’s squeezing artists, promoters and venues while jacking up prices for fans.” of President Joe Biden’s antitrust agenda made a concise and plainspoken case for why the administration should pursue it.Tim Wu, former special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy, was speaking to a gathering of antitrust hawks at the’s Anti-Monopoly Summit in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday.
Going back in history again, Theodore Roosevelt started antitrust, and he was like, ‘We have to break up Standard Oil. Like, what is this? If this law was written for something, it was written for the Standard Oil monopoly.’ And in our times, if this movement means something, it’s going to be taking on Ticketmaster, which is the monopoly of our time that everybody hates. Now, I don’t want to prejudge the case, but I guess I just did.
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