A lot of tech policy is at a weird moment, actually, but antitrust might be the weirdest of them all. The pendulum has swung back and forth on antitrust policy pretty wildly over the past few years, and it's about to swing again under Trump.
In the Biden administration, FTC Chair Lina Khan and DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter have taken a big, bold, aggressive approach to antitrust not really seen in this country in many of our lifetimes.
Regulatory pressure has been designed to avoid what I like to call the 'Instagram problem,' where everyone wishes the governments of the world had prevented Facebook from buying Instagram in 2012.
Pretty much the entire 2010s, the tech industry grew and consolidated through mergers and acquisitions at breakneck pace, leading to a Biden administration agenda to do whatever possible to slow this down.
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