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Lee Hepner

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Lee Hepner

@LeeHepner

anti-monopoly law and policy at @econliberties. post a lot about corporate abuse and the scam economy. views and endorsements are personal!

San Francisco, California

Joined May 2010

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Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Jul 14
Loyalty programs, personalized discounts, subscription pricing, oh my! In this @Capitol_Forum piece with former FTC Chief Technologist @stephtngu, we confront the most common pitfalls thwarting surveillance pricing bans and indict the corporate lobbyists thwarting action.
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Jan 25, 2025
Maybe I'm overly sensitive bc of my line of work, but why does *every single part* of this economy feel like an obstacle course? Booking a flight, seeing a doctor, getting insurance, finding housing, taking your animal to the vet... Are people just numb to all this?
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Feb 19, 2025
You have Obama, Biden and Harris signing eight figure book deals and accepting “image” awards, meanwhile Bernie is touring purple states where Dems underperformed in the recent election to talk to voters about how to fight oligarchy. I mean, come on.
Variety
@Variety
Feb 19, 2025
Former Vice President Kamala Harris has signed with CAA for representation in all areas, with a focus on speaking engagements and publishing. variety.com/2025/biz/news/…
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Jun 7, 2024
I can’t get over this. A $2 trillion monopolist just bought its way out of a jury trial. They don’t want to be judged by the public, so they paid not to be.
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Apr 21, 2025
Fires tens of thousands of public employees, eviscerates entire agencies, decides ‘meh politics isn’t for me’
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Feb 11, 2025
Watched NO OTHER LAND in a sold out theater with 300 others yesterday. A totally immersive first person document of Israeli terrorism in the West Bank. The entire audience gasped when end credits revealed it was all filmed before October 2023.
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Oct 14, 2025
Lmao, an entire crowd chanting the name of a former Chair of the FTC, an agency basically nobody has heard of, while the former VP is being heckled for her studiously ambiguous position on genocide. Choose your fighter.
Robert Costa
@costareports
Oct 14, 2025
Chants of “Lina! Lina!” at Mamdani rally tonight as the former FTC chair Lina Khan takes the stage… she’s speaking now against “corrupt oligarchs” and “robber barons” … “the days of Democratic leaders” uniting with “titans of industry” are over, she says, to cheers
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Sep 23, 2025
These guys have clearly convinced themselves what they’re doing is important beyond human comprehension but are utterly incapable of communicating what it is. In another era we’d call it a pyramid scheme or just idolatry.
The AI Investor
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Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Apr 11, 2024
Hasbro, who owns the rights to Monopoly, has gone to great lengths to conceal that it was invented in 1903 by a leftist Georgist named Elizabeth Magie, out of her frustration with the grotesque income inequality of her time. Magie originally called it "The Landlord Game."
Film Updates
@FilmUpdates
Apr 10, 2024
Margot Robbie to produce a ‘MONOPOLY’ movie for Lionsgate.
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Nov 6, 2025
A bailout. They want a bailout.
More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUS
Nov 6, 2025
The CFO of OpenAI says the company wants a federal guarantee to make it easier to finance its massive investments in AI chips for data centers.
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Feb 27, 2025
Google couldn’t get anyone to pay $20/month for its Gemini add-on, so it leveraged its considerable market power with Workspace to bundle the feature and raise everyone’s prices by $2/month. In antitrust, this is called “tying,” and it’s illegal.
Luke Goldstein
@lukewgoldstein
Feb 26, 2025
Google is incorporating AI into all office software products and making users pay higher rates for it even if they don’t want the AI feature. The architect of the price hike is the same executive whose testimony lost Google its search case last year levernews.com/googles-new-pr…
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Oct 14, 2025
It is patently absurd that it was ever legal for employers to fine workers for quitting their jobs.
More Perfect Union
@MorePerfectUS
Oct 14, 2025
California just banned employers from forcing workers to pay a debt, fee, or penalty to leave their job. Bosses have increasingly been trapping workers with debts incurred in training and other exploitative fees. Now that's illegal in the nation's biggest state.
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Jan 25, 2025
Replying to @LeeHepner
This half century delegation to private markets to codify basic norms has been a failed experiment on every level, but particularly at the consumer level where evangelists try most vigorously to justify it. Every transaction is a boobytrap. It's a total scam economy.
Lee Hepner
@LeeHepner
Nov 26, 2023
“Uber has developed algorithms for tailoring customer prices based on what they believe individual customers would be willing to pay and tailoring payments to individual drivers so they are as low as possible to get them to accept trips.” 👀👀👀👀
Jeff Hauser
@jeffhauser
Nov 26, 2023
Uber is Jack Welch style financialization on steroids. nakedcapitalism.com/2023/08/hubert…