> Asset control and power in America is centered among old people with lots of assets. And they associate protecting the stock market with protecting America.
> The “number go up” rule is not a story of greed or economics, it’s a story of how we make decisions as a society.
my favorite quote from the article is from Lina Khan:
"we don’t need to protect our monopolies from innovation—we need to protect innovation from our monopolies. We need to choose competition over national champions"
> For example you could almost build a new kind of Job Search Service that matches job descriptions to job candidates based on nothing but a vector similarity between resume and job description. That's probably so obvious it's being done, already.
Literally the next item on my roadmap for employbl dot com lol. we're calling it a "personalized job board" and using PGVector for storing the embeddings. I've also heard good things about Typesense though.
One thing I've found to be important when creating the embeddings is to not do an embedding of the whole job description. Instead use an LLM to make a concise summary of the job listing (location, skills etc.) in a structured format. Then store that store as the embedding. It reduces noise and increases accuracy for vector search.
> specific political goal to break up large corporations
you mean regulatory job of enforcing the antitrust laws that were passed by multiple Congresses? She's not making this stuff up she's enforcing antitrust laws that haven't been enforced for decades which is part of the reason our society is so unequal and the economy so centralized
> Apple didn’t want to pay to give Lina Kahn time on their platform.
Jon Stewart wanted her on the show, they said no. That's them exercising their censorship power. If Amazon says you can't sell a book on their cite because they don't like you that's them exercising censorship power too.
> If she, or Jon Stewart, were censored, we wouldn’t be seeing their conversation here.
Just because Apple doesn't own other platforms like YouTube and Comedy Central doesn't mean they're unable to exercise censorship.
> there is nothing requiring Apple to provide him with a show if they don’t like his approach
For sure Apple can make editorial decisions but the government's lawyers claim: "Apple’s conduct extends beyond just monopoly profits and even affects the flow of speech. For example, Apple is rapidly expanding its role as a TV and movie producer and has exercised that role to control content"
They didn't just block Lina Khan they blocked discussions about China and AI. As more power is concentrated in fewer hands and fewer media providers that's something to consider when enforcing antitrust laws. In Khan's words:
“I think it just shows one of the dangers of what happens when you concentrate so much power and so much decision-making in a small number of companies.”
No. I’m not talking about enforcement of anti-trust laws as passed by congress. Do some research about Khan’s own theories and you’ll know what I’m talking about.
Choosing not to commission a show on a particular subject, is not censorship.
And Khan is simply wrong in the claim you quoted. In fact it’s absurd. There is no shortage of commentary on both AI, and China. Apple chose not to buy a few shows about these topics from one person - that’s all. The fact that Khan claims this is ‘dangerous’, when you can literally watch any commentary you like including hers on Apple’s platforms shows that she is out of touch with reality.
> In many ways, Biden, by taking on four multi-trillion dollar firms in a way that Obama could never have imagined, is forcing a reckoning. Because what Biden is doing is actually hopeful, not because it makes us feel good, but because it is a reordering of the political hierarchies who structure our lives in ways that foster alienation. It makes us look at the sparkling liars who tell us pretty fables, like Apple, and decide whether we want to be adults, or whether we want to go on allowing ourselves to be ruled by our “betters.”
To me this gets to the heart of the issue. Many people think that because Apple makes great products we should just let them do whatever they want, even if it's anti-competitive.
> The “number go up” rule is not a story of greed or economics, it’s a story of how we make decisions as a society.
well said!