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And Lee wants this hearing to go into allegations of anti-conservative bias by tech companies, a claim for which there’s no systemic evidence by credible researchers. — PolitiTweet.org

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Sen. Mike Lee opens an oversight hearing of the FTC and DOJ by slamming the tensions between the two agencies’ antitrust regulators, saying disputes over which agency investigates which tech company creates “institutional pettiness” and delays. — PolitiTweet.org

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According to the release, the government isn’t going to try to stop the book from publishing but "seeks to recover all proceeds earned by Snowden because of his failure to submit his publication for pre-publication review." — PolitiTweet.org

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The US government is suing Edward Snowden for allegedly trying to publish a book in violation of his NDAs with the CIA and NSA: https://t.co/d0T0jEEF1J — PolitiTweet.org

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@KCoxDC How large are we talking? Like, Reese’s mug large? — PolitiTweet.org

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Today is an “every sentence I write looks like crap” kind of day. — PolitiTweet.org

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@robertcaruso I mean more of the tongue-in-cheek kind, like https://t.co/EEkpoopZsj — PolitiTweet.org

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Please tell me something like this already exists — PolitiTweet.org

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I would 💯 read a @joshuakeating “write about America like a foreign country” piece about US health care. — PolitiTweet.org

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This reads a lot like something you might write if your antitrust investigation into a certain auto emissions deal with California was getting a chilly public reception https://t.co/8WoFxuABYx — PolitiTweet.org

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@swin24 @lachlan The only correct answer is: a Juul luuge — PolitiTweet.org

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It’s a wonder humanity makes any technological progress at all — PolitiTweet.org

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@Anna_Rothschild @FiveThirtyEight Amazing! Congrats! — PolitiTweet.org

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Somebody took the titanium camping spork I keep at my desk for lunches and people, this is really not the day — PolitiTweet.org

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On CNBC, @chopraftc says the tech industry has faced “extremely lax oversight.” “It bugs the hell outta me that we see so much reduction in investment in sectors where some of these firms dominate, and that’s not a country or an economy we should want to live in." — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Whew. Looks like no net neutrality decision today. — PolitiTweet.org

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Downright savage by @FrankBruni https://t.co/Qh4g2LgdZx https://t.co/yNCaaP9piN — PolitiTweet.org

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And now, like clockwork, all eyes turn to the DC Circuit’s website to await Schrödinger’s net neutrality decision — PolitiTweet.org

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Axios reports DOJ sent a CID to DuckDuckGo as part of its Google probe: https://t.co/qau4s62xTu — PolitiTweet.org

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The committee is investigating Facebook over reports that it cut off some third-party apps from its API. And it’s reaching back to Amazon’s battles with book publishers from 2009-2015. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

I went to type “amazing” to my editor in Slack and it came out as “Amazon” so, uh, that’s a sign of how things are going this morning ☕️ — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

More on the House's Big Tech antitrust probe: Lawmakers want records that might reveal if Google shows undue preference to publishers who use AMP and also info linked to an effort to encrypt browser requests, a privacy feature known as DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) https://t.co/A3CbWxtNDh — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Absolute mad lad — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Important to point out these are not subpoenas — though this doesn’t preclude that possibility down the road. — PolitiTweet.org

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The requests show the breadth of the committee’s interests — ranging from what, if any, data Amazon may be withholding from third-party sellers to Facebook’s use of Onavo (which critics say helped Facebook identify and eliminate rivals) to Google’s tying of proprietary apps. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

@markscott82 International also. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

NEW: The House antitrust probe of Big Tech now includes formal document requests to Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google over various aspects of their businesses. All the letters request executive communications and records from past antitrust investigations or lawsuits. — PolitiTweet.org

Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Imagine if the presidential debates had Superbowl-level advertising. — PolitiTweet.org

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And I was just about to say it would actually be kind of a public service if there were no commercial breaks for the full three hours — PolitiTweet.org

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Depends on if you include engineering PhDs or not — PolitiTweet.org