As if Big Tech weren’t powerful enough already, recent decisions by the Supreme Court will give some of the most valuable companies in the world more latitude to undermine the government’s ability to rein them in, according to legal experts WIRED spoke to.
“This has been a bad couple of weeks for regulatory agencies, it’s been a bad couple of weeks for the rule of law, and it’s been really terrible for consumers,” says David Vladeck, a professor at Georgetown Law and former director of the Federal Trade Commission’s Consumer Protection Bureau.
On Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled that enforcement decisions by the Securities and Exchange Commission in fraud cases should
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