{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpodcast.techfreedom.org%2Fepisodes%2F384-the-facebook-antitrust-case-qIc9FLUG","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"384: The Facebook Antitrust Case","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/50bb570b-2d48-4cba-8eac-4d8a2c843965/8d834bf0-c124-4185-81fd-3bc2abd5797e/tpp-v3.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/2840f663-7ae5-4395-8d3e-bebd10c64905\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"384: The Facebook Antitrust Case\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"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). \n\nA crossover episode with the Washington Legal Foundation / TechFreedom Tech in the Courts series.\n\nTopics include:\n\n- The ontology of Facebook\n- Social networking: it’s not 2008 anymore\n- The FTC’s made-up market\n- The WhatsApp Catch-22\n- Has Facebook been enshittified?\n- Product design by government: bad idea!\n- Growing startups: hard, actually\n\nLinks:\n\nThe Feds Unfriend Facebook: Why the FTC’s Meta Antitrust Case Should Fail (https://tinyurl.com/k988vjn8)\n\nTech Policy Podcast 357: The Amazon Antitrust Case (https://tinyurl.com/2s4xz9xs)\n\nTech Policy Podcast 353: The Google Search Antitrust Trial (https://tinyurl.com/mryvmrce)\n\nTech Policy Podcast 302: Epic v. Apple (https://tinyurl.com/39chu42b)\n"}