WASHINGTON—Congress is growing impatient with big technology companies for resisting legislative remedies aimed at“Every single thing we propose, they are against,” Ms. Klobuchar said at The Wall Street Journal’s Tech Live conference. “The more that time goes on, I’m not the only one that starts wondering if we should not just have the narrow changes” and start aiming for more ambitious legislation, she said.
Sen. Klobuchar heads the Senate antitrust subcommittee, and recently announced a far-reaching bipartisan plan to crack down on perceived “self-preferencing” in which dominant tech companies promote their own goods and services. That could be a potential threat to the business models of giants such as Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc., among others.
Tech industry leaders have said they are open to updating outdated laws, but say many of the measures proposed in Congress threaten the viability of the industry. “The type of government industrial intervention proposed is what we’d expect to see from China, Russia, and other countries that compete with the U.S. in technological innovation, except that these policies would actually hold back U.S. companies as they compete with China and other countries,” Arthur Sidney, a vice president with the Computer and Communications Industry Association, said in a statement.
Efforts by Congress to toughen tech regulation often have stalled in the past, but Sen. Klobuchar said the push for change has been given a boost from the disclosure of internal documents from
In other words, send me a check and we become far more patient?
Go get them Amy...someone needs to reign these tech companies in. I think the bigger fight will be to regulate the content of the big tech companies, a fight that would definitely wind up in court.
The problem with Republican voters devolving into corrupt &angry on Fox News last two decades is how it allowed corporations to control America. WE THE PEOPLE control this country. And WE THE PEOPLE must PUT OUR FOOT DOWN to Zuckerberg, Trump etc. Our country depends on it..
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