The forthcoming antitrust proposal by the US House of Representatives is being called a \"thinly veiled call to break up\" large technology firms including Apple, Google, and Facebook.<\/p>\n
Following the US House of Representative's final hearing on the topic of big tech antitrust, a draft response claims that the as-yet unreleased proposals call for the breakup of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google. <\/p>\n
According to Reuters, Republican Congressman Ken Buck has responded to the forthcoming report, criticizing its main conclusions. \"This proposal is a thinly veiled call to break up Big Tech firms,\" he wrote. \"We do not agree with the majority's approach.\"<\/p>\n
While Buck writes that he agrees with concerns about Big Tech, he objects to the report's plan to require companies to delineate a clear \"single line of business.\" He reportedly points out that Amazon, for example, runs both its ecommerce store and the separate but hugely successful Amazon Cloud Services.<\/p>\n
\"The report offers a chilling look into how Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook have used their power to control how we see and understand the world,\" continued Buck. \"[However] these potential changes need not be dramatic to be effective.\"<\/p>\n
The House antitrust subcommittee is expected to publish its report before October 9. Any road to break-up will take years, and may not happen, depending on political will going forward.<\/p>\n
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