It's Apparently Bipartisan To Threaten To Punish Companies Via Antitrust Law For Speech You Don't Like

It's Apparently Bipartisan To Threaten To Punish Companies Via Antitrust Law For Speech You Don't Like

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20210402/16535946543/apparently-bipartisan-to-threaten-to-punish-companies-via-antitrust-law-speech-you-dont-like.shtml

A little over a week ago, we wrote about how Senator Elizabeth Warren clearly went over the line in threatening to punish Amazon for its speech through the use of antitrust laws. As we noted (pretty clearly, though many ignored it) at the time, there may be plenty of other reasons to use antitrust laws against Amazon, but no government official should ever even jokingly suggest that he or she would use the power of the government (via antitrust) to punish an entity for speech.

In response, many Warren supporters got incredibly mad at me, insisting that because (1) Amazon is big and (2) Warren has supported this position before, then it's perfectly fine for her to have said what she did. It was not.

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