Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, a Democrat, said enforcement can't be 'value-neutral' because even a lack of enforcement has consequences.
Why do you think that antitrust law in particular, in the U.S. at least, has taken on this very neutral, narrow lane, as opposed to other areas of law that you mentioned that seem to have a little bit more leeway to focus on particular areas or issue?
I want to make clear that I don't want to be talking about any particular company or any particular theories or cases. I want to stay pretty high-level about that. I think it's a starting point, we need more information. So I'd like to see us asking more questions about demographics of customers, or consumers or businesses or workers. We collect lots and lots of information from companies that we investigate from third parties who deal with those companies. And I think it would be good to have a clearer-eyed sense of how some of that information breaks down on demographic lines.
What I really intended to do with the Twitter thread was start a conversation and a conversation that will invite not only pushback and debate, which I think is valuable, but also ideas and inspiration from other folks who've been thinking about these issues, either similarly, for longer or differently, or have perspectives that I don't have. And I'm the first to acknowledge that the perspective from which I come is a that of a privileged White woman and I'm aware of that.
I am a big proponent, as a general matter of us really putting to use all the tools in our toolbox, some of which I think have gotten quite rusty over time. And I think we should brush them off and figure out how we can put them to better use.One area of competition rulemaking that's already gotten a lot of attention is the idea of non-competes.
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