Four bills have been introduced by a group of lawmakers in the US House of Representatives.
And have been aimed at reining in the power of the tech giants, with one potentially leading to their break up. Two of the bills address the issue of giant companies, such as Amazon and Google, creating a platform for other businesses and then competing against those same businesses. The pro-business U.S Chamber of Commerce said it “strongly opposes” the bill’s approach.
“Bills that target specific companies, instead of focusing on business practices, are simply bad policy…and could be ruled unconstitutional,” the chamber’s Neil Bradley said in a statement.
Representative David Cicilline, the Democratic Chair of the antitrust panel, is an original co-sponsor of the bills, as is the top Republican, Ken Buck.The chair of the Judiciary Committee, Jerrold Nadler, also sponsored the bills.
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