The American Bar Association’s annual antitrust conference is typically a pretty staid affair where lawyers share gossip, drinks and tips on how to better defend their clients. Then, last Thursday, Barry Lynn disrupted the peace.
“Google, Facebook, Amazon, Trump, Putin, Xi have shattered the frameworks of law and democracy,” Lynn, executive director of antimonopoly group Open Markets Institute, chastised attendees during a panel discussion. “This is all—to a great degree—your doing. It is your doing because you conspired to use a false science, an idiot science, to blind the law to dangerous concentrations of power, to blind the citizenry to the fist of monopoly.”
It was an extraordinary moment at an event long known for what some would say is an improperly cozy relationship between corporate America and its government overseers. And it was not what most of the nearly 2,800 attendees were expecting at a conference held in person for the first time since 2019.
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