A group of antitrust experts has launched their own independent organization after they were pushed out of the New America think tank two weeks after raising criticisms of Google.
The new group is called the Open Markets Institute, and its goal is “to protect this country’s economy and democracy from corporate monopolies that undermine opportunity, competition, choice, and — as we have now personally experienced — freedom of expression.”
Open Markets is headed by Barry Lynn, the former New America scholar whose praise of the European Union’s decision to fine Google US$2.7 billion for antitrust violations led to clashes with New America president Anne-Marie Slaughter.
Lynn’s dismissal raised waves as Google critics claimed that the firing was due to Alphabet CEO Eric Schmidt putting pressure on Slaughter.
Slaughter has said that Lynn’s ouster was a personnel issue and that Google had no say in her decision.
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