Big Tech’s big hope for 2025 — that for all Trump’s populist rhetoric, a Republican president would never really challenge Big Business — was dashed. After years of consumer abuse, market manipulation, and political treachery, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta, and the nation’s other tech giants will finally face their reckoning.
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Gail Slater is this calculation.
Because Slater is not only a skillful law at the festival and antitrust, completely qualified to direct the division. He is inharded in most sensible technology executives, is that he worked for years in the silicon curtain. She has held leadership positions in primary generation and telecommunications, and even in the Internet Industry Industry Association.
Slater emerged from these experiences — behind enemy lines, as it were — as the most knowledgeable, principled conservative antitrust hawk in Washington.
She is one of the few in the antimonopoly circles of the right that understands what the antimonopoly statutes are: aggravate the obstacles for corporations to weave and dodge, but integral parts of maintaining a fair and physically powerful loose market, one where the participants Giants and children can compete for their merits and prosper.
While sure that the political teams financed through the industry in Washington are paid through Silicon Valley to confuse it with the populist left, Slater’s ideology is different. His technique to the antimonopoly law is not in the values, and is not too busy in favor of speculative economic jargon.
On the contrary, Slater pursues the culture of John Sherman, the Anti-Clavoln Republican Pro-Lincoln de l’Ohio who has lent his call to the prestige antimonopoly founder of the nation: skepticism towards centralized power, either in the government and outside, outside , and a purpose of maintaining the market open to all arrivals, not only those who can buy their path through the labyrinth of the rules, regulations and government regulators.
What Slater understands — and what too many elite, Republican legal ideologues still refuse to see — is that distortive, tyrannized capitalism is not the same thing as free enterprise. Private firms, when large enough, are just as capable of warping the market as the government. Antitrust law is about freedom, not esoteric technicalities and pricing models. Its core function (like the Constitution’s itself) is to protect the American people from the dangers of centralized, unaccountable power.
And the centralized, unexplained force is exactly what our society’s marvelous tech overlords, the remarkable, easy-to-use inventions that have made those corporations a success decades beyond are relics of an era from the Big era. Addiction, propaganda has awakened, partisan censorship, industry-scale privacy violations, and predatory takeovers through startup competition, is a risk not only to our market economy, but to our way of life.
Donald Trump gets this. He often couches his criticisms of Big Tech as defenses of “Little Tech.” He knows how anti-competitive Big Business executives behave when they think they can get away with it. And he knows that regulatory micromanagement often only leads to regulatory capture. Antitrust enforcement — forcibly decentralizing abusive concentrations of economic power — is the only real, permanent way to protect the American people from corporate oligarchs.
The appointment of Gail Slater via Trump is the surest sign to date that he plans to continue the Justice Department’s antitrust proceedings, investigations, and enforcement opposed to Big TechArray. . . and accentuates its surveillance of other “big” predators in the United States of America: Big AG, Big Bank, Big Pharma and the rest.
The corporate media describe the appointment of Slater as an escalation of a war began the Biden years. In truth, it represents the attentive of America to a war that began more than two centuries ago: the War of the Humble families and that the opposite paintings to the corrupt elites decided to present them.
Antitrust enforcement is not “repression”: it is self-defense. We are already living in the global that the great generation has forced on us. We have the poisonous political culture, the crisis of intellectual aptitude of young people, the censorship regime and the strangled economic innovation to result in it.
Other American people do not accept as true with Big Tech. And they do not accept as true with the federal government in the component because it has not protected us from primary technologies. The “trust of trust” today can be greater described as “disappointed as true with” – Washington even though everything intensifies to protect our economy and our other people opposed to political, economic and cultural predators of billions of billions of dollars.
President Trump understands the future of American freedom depends on finally slaying this dragon. Gail Slater is just the knight for the job.
Rachel Bovard is vice president for programs at the Institute for Conservative Association. He was in the past the Executive Director of the Senate Executive Committee.
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