The Badlands: The Tipline for 16 February 2021

Theodore Roosevelt travelled west to the Dakota Territory in 1883 looking to hunt bison. Epic Games, Spotify and other app store complainants have stolen a page out of the playbook of “the great trustbuster”, making their way to Bismarck, North Dakota, in hopes of capturing a few app stores through legislation. Also in Tipline, the Federal Trade Commission widens its investigation into the Great Outdoors and Commissioner Christine Wilson weighs a trek into the administrative wilderness of Magnuson-Moss rulemaking.