Tech Policy Podcast

384: The Facebook Antitrust Case

Episode Summary

Geoff Manne (International Center for Law & Economics) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discuss the many, many flaws in the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta (Facebook). A crossover episode with the Washington Legal Foundation / TechFreedom Tech in the Courts series. Topics include: - The ontology of Facebook - Social networking: it’s not 2008 anymore - The FTC’s made-up market - The WhatsApp Catch-22 - Has Facebook been enshittified? - Product design by government: bad idea! - Growing startups: hard, actually Links: The Feds Unfriend Facebook: Why the FTC’s Meta Antitrust Case Should Fail (https://tinyurl.com/k988vjn8) Tech Policy Podcast 357: The Amazon Antitrust Case (https://tinyurl.com/2s4xz9xs) Tech Policy Podcast 353: The Google Search Antitrust Trial (https://tinyurl.com/mryvmrce) Tech Policy Podcast 302: Epic v. Apple (https://tinyurl.com/39chu42b)

Episode Notes

Geoff Manne (International Center for Law & Economics) and Corbin Barthold (TechFreedom) discuss the many, many flaws in the FTC’s antitrust lawsuit against Meta (Facebook). 

A crossover episode with the Washington Legal Foundation / TechFreedom Tech in the Courts series.

Topics include:

- The ontology of Facebook

- Social networking: it’s not 2008 anymore

- The FTC’s made-up market

- The WhatsApp Catch-22

- Has Facebook been enshittified?

- Product design by government: bad idea!

- Growing startups: hard, actually

Links:

The Feds Unfriend Facebook: Why the FTC’s Meta Antitrust Case Should Fail

Tech Policy Podcast 357: The Amazon Antitrust Case

Tech Policy Podcast 353: The Google Search Antitrust Trial

Tech Policy Podcast 302: Epic v. Apple