Google and Google Yelp

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Yelp feels very aggrieved because they used to get a lot of traffic from Google and then they got less. You're starting to get into the era of like a sense of entitlement that Google ought to give them traffic. The more important aspect of antitrust is not enforcing the existing laws on the existing equations but rather these new companies that don't fit the existing laws.

Ben and James discuss the antitrust subcommittee hearing, the problems of mixing antitrust and Aggregators, and how to think about regulation and democracy.

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