House Bills Seek to Break Up Amazon
and Other Big Tech Companies
Wall Street Journal,
by
Dana Mattioli
&
Ryan Tracy
Original Article
Posted By: OhioNick,
6/11/2021 11:32:02 PM
House lawmakers proposed a raft of bipartisan legislation aimed at reining in the country’s biggest tech companies, including a bill that seeks to make Amazon.com and other large corporations effectively split in two or shed their private-label products.
The bills, announced Friday, amount to the biggest congressional broadside yet on a handful of technology companies—including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Apple Inc. and Facebook Inc. as well as Amazon -- whose size and power have drawn growing scrutiny from lawmakers and regulators in the U.S. and Europe.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
MickTurn 6/11/2021 11:42:05 PM (No. 813143)
We need to start by putting the leadership of these big tech companies in PRISON for violating our Constitutional RIGHTS...PERIOD!
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HisHandmaiden 6/11/2021 11:43:42 PM (No. 813145)
Way past time...
Worked for telecoms.
World is, sadly, more dumbed down...
Make it happen, GOP!
KAG
31 people like this.
Does anyone REALLY believe that the Democraps are going to reign in the very thing that pours money into their coffers? We are being played by Congress again, folks. There isn't one chance in hell that the Dems turn on Zuckerberg or Bezos - their money and social media influence bought them the 2020 election.
As to Alphabet / Google - do we really think the government will go after their front for data mining for the NSA? Give me a friggin' break.
37 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Trigger2 6/12/2021 1:17:51 AM (No. 813185)
Not going to happen. Watch all these big tech companies start lavishing campaign contributions on demonrats.
24 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
Nimby 6/12/2021 1:35:43 AM (No. 813198)
I will believe it when I see it
16 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
joew9 6/12/2021 5:48:32 AM (No. 813257)
Not gonna happen. It's just talk. Don't forget the left uses laws to control businesses so they'll do what they want. Like when the mafia comes to a business and sells them fire insurance for fires they will start. This is just a ploy to get Amazon to the lefts bidding. Politicians get rich by making their donors immune from laws their non donating competitors are forced to endure. The more Amazon hinders the right the more immune Amazon is from any significant action by the left.
During the 1990's the Clinton administration talked of breaking up the Microsoft "monopoly". Bill Gates opened up a lobbying organization in D.C. and began dolling out the bucks. He also started donating to lots of lefty causes. That monopoly talk went away.
11 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
The Remnants 6/12/2021 6:27:17 AM (No. 813279)
But how people in government are so compromised that they're stuck with the choices they made. The Wall Street Journal knows that better than anyone.
8 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
The Remnants 6/12/2021 6:44:41 AM (No. 813285)
how many people
sorry -
2 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 6/12/2021 7:48:14 AM (No. 813338)
ok. But, members of the House, when can we expect the CEOs of these companies to bear the consequences of running these illegal monopolies which treat censorship as a corporate right?
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Jebediah 6/12/2021 7:49:57 AM (No. 813340)
Won't happen but wish it would!!!! Fix featured AG Wray on border this a.m.: the DRUGS, the lack of covid or any other testing, the handing over of little kids to God knows who----no checking! The average lifespan of these kids, used in sex trafficking, is 3 years after rape and battering. And yet the PRESS says nothing, and certainly Big Tech says nothing.
7 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
Jebediah 6/12/2021 7:51:58 AM (No. 813344)
THIS is why we have to vote in vast numbers (and yell when votes are tampered with) in 2022!!!!! If we take back Congress and the Senate we will have the ability to do something in the anti-trust vein, and those Republicans who are also complicit in this will be too embarrassed of disclosure to fight it.
8 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rinktum 6/12/2021 8:04:56 AM (No. 813360)
Congress stood by and allowed the creation of these Monsters and now they are more powerful than they are. They own the majority in Congress and they know these greedy corruptocrats will not bite the hand that feeds them. He who has the money, has the power. These monster corporations know it and so does Congress. When integrity meant more than filthy lucre we would not be here. Sadly, men and women of honest character are few and far between.
9 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
udanja99 6/12/2021 8:39:50 AM (No. 813403)
Since this will never happen, the best thing we can do is abandon all of these companies. I am not on any social media at all and I have not shopped on Amazon since they went after Parler after the “election”. It’s amazing how much I don’t miss Amazon at all. I deleted everything Google from all of my devices years ago and use DuckDuckGo as my search engine.
It’s all pretty much painless and everyone should be doing it.
5 people like this.
To No. 7;
Another really great point as we need TERM LIMITS NOW!!!
Not only for the elected stiffs but for all of the hangers-on who are the ones that really run everything!!
We need this NOW not later!! These hangers-on are ruining our once great country, they never do what the majority of good people want but what their minuscule doners want.
4 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 6/12/2021 9:19:48 AM (No. 813446)
I didn't read the entire article. Would have to login. Any word on addressing the censorship and banning of posters on Facebook and Twitter? If they don't address that, these bills are all for show.
1 person likes this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
DCGIRL 6/12/2021 9:36:00 AM (No. 813461)
Too many republicans are in the pocket of Big Tech, I don't see it happening. What we really need to do is see which republicans are for it and who is against it. Those against the bill need to be replaced.
3 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zigrid 6/12/2021 10:40:39 AM (No. 813531)
This is all talk... when it comes down to voting... they will all fold like a cheap suit...
1 person likes this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
bighambone 6/12/2021 11:24:21 AM (No. 813566)
There will be a lot of money involved in such corporate “breakups” that will end up as paid as covert under the table bribes and other corrupt payoffs to the DC UniParty and their family members to get the outcome that the “elite” wants. You can bet your bottom dollar on that.
0 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
Citoyen 6/12/2021 12:41:46 PM (No. 813639)
Of course this won’t go anywhere legislatively since Republicans are in the minority. It’s politically beneficial, however, since Big Tech needs to be put on notice that the support businesses generally enjoy from the Republican Party is fraying.
It was never smart for Big Tech to ignore the responsibilities Section 230, a privilege granted by the federal government, imposed upon them. Big Tech’s poisonous political ideology blinded them to the fact that censoring conservatives results
in Republican support for big business to diminish.
I’d prefer taking section 230 away or tightening it up but I certainly would support breaking these evil outfits apart if that’s what it takes. In the meanwhile keep pressuring the spineless Republicans to take a stand.
0 people like this.
Reply 20 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 6/12/2021 12:44:42 PM (No. 813645)
I cannot believe that the house controlled democRATS would allow such a thing. They are the true nazis.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Omen55 6/12/2021 5:20:42 PM (No. 813876)
Amazingly we agreed with dem on breaking up the Tech Barons.
Now it's not about the $$$ for the barons as they will still be rich.
What they will fight & bribe to keep is the power & that is what we must rip from their hands.
0 people like this.
Reply 22 - Posted by:
ToryWhite 6/12/2021 5:38:25 PM (No. 813893)
Not going to happen under Biden. Typical WSJ drivel.
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