It's one of the old tweets by Marko Elez, the 25-year-old that recently resigned from Elon Musk's team at the USDS, after said tweets surfaced. He has since been re-hired.
According to Musk's plan, he would be one of two people given full access to all of the financial IT systems at the US Treasury, and probably all the other agencies they plan to come after in the future.
Collusion among all the big players in an industry, in order to exclude other players from succeeding in that industry is indeed anti-competitive, and potentially illegal. There's potential merit here in businesses coordinating with each other on who to blacklist withing the industry, which is why lawyers were willing to take on the case.
Ultimately, it's a question for a judge whether they're doing this for the purpose of suppressing competition, somehow, or whether they're doing it for valid business reasons (like, say, avoiding a company with a history of not paying its bills, or avoiding a company with a history of sabotaging business relationships, or avoiding a company that their own customers actively hate, and would lose them business).
Of course, with the courts the way they are these days, I'm not holding my breath for the obviously-sensible ruling.
No, we want the money that we pay to benefit society, in ways that we couldn't on our own, to be used to benefit society, in ways that we couldn't on our own.
Was really having trouble wrapping my head around this until I realized that there's a continuous sentence that crosses over the post barrier. I.E. the second post is not the start of a new sentence.
House M.D. Season 7. Love the show, myself, I put it on for a rewatch while working every couple years. The medical stuff ranges from really interesting to utter nonsense, but the character writing is pretty great, throughout.
It's fraud. They publicly claimed, point-blank, to do a certain thing for years, and were instead doing the opposite, in the interest of making more money. The affiliate link thing is only one of several points that they're suing over. The far more egregious one is that they don't actually "scour the internet to find you the best coupons" They will actively hide better coupons that they know about, if marketplaces pay them to, and still tell you in the browser "this is the best coupon."
The book on the table has the telltale Cliff Notes branding imagery. Cliff Notes is a company that was real big in the 90s and 00s (not sure how big these days) for making short summaries of famous novels, including plot points and themes. Everything you would need to write a competent essay on the book. They're notorious for allowing high school kids to get through literature classes without actually doing the reading work.
It's one of the old tweets by Marko Elez, the 25-year-old that recently resigned from Elon Musk's team at the USDS, after said tweets surfaced. He has since been re-hired.
According to Musk's plan, he would be one of two people given full access to all of the financial IT systems at the US Treasury, and probably all the other agencies they plan to come after in the future.