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President Donald Trump took one of the best and most resulting decisions of his second term: Tapping Technology Lawyer Gail Slater to lead the antitrust department of his Ministry of Justice.
Chances are that you have never heard of Slater. But the Wake up lawyers, lobbyists and billionaires Of the biggest technology companies in America, all have that. Be sure that Silicon Valley flew in a few minutes after the nomination of Slater in Panic Slackchats, Zoom discussions and emergency meetings.
Big Tech’s Big Hope For 2025 – which for all the populist rhetoric of Trump, a Republican president would never really challenge large companies – was interrupted. After years of abuse of consumers, market manipulation and political betrayal, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and the other technical giants of the country will finally be confronted with their settlement.
Gail Slater is that settlement.
Because Slater is not only an expert in competition and antitrust legislation, thoroughly qualified to the Division. She is also not just an accomplished lawyer with experience in private practice and two branches of the government. No, what strikes Slater’s CV and what the big-technical execs are doing that she worked for years behind the silicon curtain. She has held higher positions at large technology and telecom companies and even the trade association of the internet industry.
Slater came from these experiences – behind the enemy lines, as it were – as the most expert, principle conservative Antitrusthawk in Washington.
She is one of the few in right -wing antitrust circles that understand what the antitrust statutes are for: not irritating roadblocks for business to weave and avoid, but integrated components of maintaining a fair and robust free market, a where both large and small participants can compete on their merits and thrive.
While some policy groups funded by industry are paid in Washington by Silicon Valley to combine her with the populist links, the ideology of Slater is different. Her approach to antitrust legislation is not based on values, nor is it to be loaded in favor of speculative economic jargon.
On the contrary, Slater continues the tradition of John Sherman, the Pro-Lincoln, Anti-slavery Republican from Ohio, who borrowed his name to the rule of nation: a skepticism to centralized power, both in the government and outside, and a goal To keep the market open for all newcomers, not only those who can make their way through the labyrinth of the government of rules, regulations and supervisors.
What Slater understands – and some elite, republican legal ideologists still refuse to see – is that disturbing, getiranized capitalism is not the same as free undertaking. Private companies are, if large enough, just as able to distort the market as the government. Antitrust legislation is about freedom, no esoteric technical details and price models. The core function (such as the Constitution itself) is to protect the American people against the dangers of centralized, irresponsible power.
And centralized, inexplicable power is exactly what Big Tech Lords is about our society today about our society. The famous, consumer -friendly innovations that have made these companies successful in recent decades are remains of a gone age. Big Tech’s Business Model Post innovation Today screen and porn addiction, aroused propaganda, partisan censorship, industrial scale violations and predatory acquisitions of start-up competitors-is not only a threat to our market economy, but our entire way of life.
Donald Trump gets this. He often holds his criticism of Big Tech as defenses of ‘small technology’. He knows how anti-competitive big business executives behave when they think they can get away with it. And he knows that regulatory micro management often only leads to the regulations. Antitrust enforcement – with violence decentralization of insulting concentrations of economic power – is the only real, permanent way of protecting the American people against company soligarches.
Trump’s appointment of Gail Slater is the most certain sign to date that he is planning to continue the lawsuits, investigations and antitrust enforcement of DOJ against great technology … and control it on the other “large” predators of America: Big AG, large banks, large pharmaceutical and the intensification to strengthen remains.
The business media are the nomination of Slater frame as an escalation of a fight that started during the Biden years. In reality, America’s long-awaited return to a fight represents that it started more than two centuries ago for modest, working families against corrupt elites bent to subject them.
Antitrust enforcement is not “performance” – it is self -defense. We already live in the world Big Tech imposed on us. We have the poisonous political culture, the mental health crisis on youth, the censorship regime and the Throttled Innovation Economy to prove this.
The American people Do not trust great technology. And they do not trust the federal government in part because it has not protected us against Big Tech. “Trust Busting” Today it is better to be described as “Distrust of Busting” Washington finally stands up to defend our economy and our people against political, economic and cultural predators of trillion dollars.
President Trump understands the future of American freedom, depends on finally killing this dragon. Gail Slater is just the knight for the job.
