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This all comes after Democrats have tried to talk a big game about Ticketmaster, yet the monopoly’s state legislative efforts have largely gone under the radar.
“This is an enormous diversion away from the Live Nation – Ticketmaster monopoly,” says Diana Moss, the vice President and director of competition policy at the Progressive Policy Institute. “Don’t look over here at the monopoly, look over there at the resale market. Let’s call the resale market a bunch of scalpers, make unsubstantiated claims about how it functions, and lay the blame at the feet of the resale market.”
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