Economy of the United States

Photo: Kelly Sullivan (Getty Images)Today in Silicon Valley elites being terrible: Sergey Brin, a Google cofounder and one of the richest people on the planet (net worth: $93 billion), is asking the judge presiding over his pending divorce to withhold child support from his soon-to-be ex-wife. Brin isn’t asking for her to pay him any child support, either. It might be the grossest tidbit to come out of the court filings from Brin’sdivorce with the attorney and entrepreneur Nicole Shanahan. The two quietly married about…

Comedian John Oliver decided to wade into the antitrust battleground this week, and he didn’t hold back any punches.Oliver devoted 25 minutes of his most recent Last Week Tonight show to discuss general Big Tech badness and advocated in favor of a pair of historic antitrust bills currently being considered in Congress. The comedian zeroes in on claims made by advocacy groups and small businesses that giants like Google and Meta engage in anti-competitive, self-preferencing behavior that essentially cements their status as…

Amazon workers and community allies demonstrate during a protest organized by New York Communities for Change and Make the Road New York in front of Jeff Bezos’ Manhattan residence in New York on December 2, 2020Photo: Kena Bentancur (Getty Images)Amazon—a trillion dollar multinational corporation repeatedly sued by labor groups for unfair working conditions at its facilities—wants you to know it’s being treated unfairly.In a blog post on Wednesday Amazon lashed out at antitrust legislation currently making its way…