The Republican plan to take down Big Tech Commentary from ConnCarroll:
f you want to know where the Republican Party is headed on antitrust, you should read Rep. Ken Buck’s new bookLike most Republicans, Buck used to have a more hands-off approach to markets. “The best way to deal with problems in the marketplace is to let the market address the problems,” Buck recounts thinking before an Antitrust Subcommittee hearing in Boulder, Colorado, in 2020.But the testimony Buck heard that day changed his mind about the ability of the tech sector to police itself.
Not only did Apple use its market power to pre-install iPhones with the Find My app, but it also made it hard for customers of Tile to find the required permissions on their iPhones to enable the Tile devices to work. Meanwhile, the Find My permissions came already turned on. Additionally, Tile users were constantly prompted by reminders from their iPhones to turn the Tile permissions off. No such prompts to turn Find My permissions off were sent.
Buck also voices support for Sen. Mike Lee’s bipartisan Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act, which is co-sponsored by Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Richard Blumenthal . Buck details how Google bought its way to a monopoly in the online advertising market with its purchase of DoubleClick in 2008. Not only does Google use its market power to force companies to buy ads across its platforms , but it also owns and operates the marketplace used to buy and sell online advertising.
Lee’s bill would, in Buck’s words, “prevent tech giants that made more than $20 billion in revenue from operating on all three sides of the ad sales equation: selling, buying, and running the high-speed ad auction exchanges.”
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