Antitrust as culture cudgel

Updated: 2025.07.25 7M ago 1 sources
Politicized merger review and regulatory obstacles deployed to punish or reward firms’ cultural speech rather than market harms. — It undermines rule-of-law expectations in competition policy, chills corporate speech, and distorts market signals with ideological criteria.

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The Right’s Napoleonic Strategy on Culture
Damon Linker 2025.07.25 100% relevant
The article claims the administration threatens regulatory objections to mergers and acquisitions to push companies toward 'right-coded' messaging.
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