Tomorrow, the Senate will hold its first hearing on President Trump’s nomination of Mark Meador for a seat on the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The Federal Trade Commission is one of those regulatory agencies most Americans probably don’t pay a whole lot of
attention to, but which has come to play an outsized role in our everyday lives.
Why does this obscure federal commission play an outsized role in our lives?
Because the FTC handles enforcement of antitrust regulations, and for years its deliberations and enforcement actions against Big Tech have been delayed by politics and political maneuvering by Democrats anxious to keep the Silicon Valley billions flowing into their campaign coffers.
For example, Big Tech companies have regularly disregarded antitrust law to attack your free speech:
* The duopoly of Apple and Google control 99% of the app store market and use that power to coerce censorship of social media through nebulous speech codes.
* In just a few hours, the Apple/Google duopoly and Amazon AWS eliminated access to the free speech platform Parler for the entire world.
* Google banned the free speech platform Truth Social for weeks, silencing Americans ability to hear from the former and future U.S. president.
* Meta created the secret “Jedi Blue” contract with Google to monopolize the social media ad market: it then began using the censorship tool Ad Fontes to censor Americans.
* Google’s YouTube, which monopolized the video platform market, began aggressively demonetizing and banning conservative content at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party-controlled World Health Organization.
Mark Meador's entire career has been dedicated to the impartial and earnest enforcement of our antitrust and consumer protection statutes. Meador’s prompt confirmation can help bring these abuses to an end by creating a pro-competition majority and ending the FTC’s current deadlock.
Mark Meador served with the Texas Attorney General and worked to protect market competition at both the Federal Trade Commission and the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division. More recently, Meador worked under Senator Mike Lee to craft legislation that would address the anti-competitive monopolization of the digital ad market.
Big Tech is already lobbying against Mark Meador, so you know what to do: The Capitol Switchboard is (202-224-3121), call your Senators TODAY to demand the prompt confirmation of Mark Meador to a seat on the Federal Trade Commission.
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