Please explain how this instance of the government choosing winners and losers arbitrarily is pro free market?
Creating arbitrary rules that don't apply to businesses who are serving the 'public interest' (politically connected) is only one step away from a planned economy.
My reading of the source material is that the administration is blocking an instance of a government entity "picking winners and losers". If you take off your John Galt Goggles maybe you would parse it that way too.
The administration blocked government intervention when it applied to their friends. Others do not get the same treatment. Did the administration dissolve the USITC? Did it declare the Tariff Act of 1930 unenforced? No, it simply picks and chooses who the rules apply to.
Can you show me the counter-example that proves this alleged favoritism? Some action by US ITC or recent enforcement of the Tariff Act that you feel is particularly egregious?
My previous experience with Obama-haters and pseudo-libertarians tells me the answer is probably no. But I am open to evidence to the contrary. Absent that I can't just assume an Apple/Obama conspiracy by default.
Creating arbitrary rules that don't apply to businesses who are serving the 'public interest' (politically connected) is only one step away from a planned economy.