{"id":283249,"date":"2021-06-24T23:46:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/house-panel-votes-yes-on-bill-that-could-break-up-big-tech\/"},"modified":"2021-06-24T23:46:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T20:46:29","slug":"house-panel-votes-yes-on-bill-that-could-break-up-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/house-panel-votes-yes-on-bill-that-could-break-up-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"#House panel votes \u2018yes\u2019 on bill that could break up Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#House panel votes \u2018yes\u2019 on bill that could break up Big Tech<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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The House Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to require\u00a0Big\u00a0Tech\u00a0platforms to sell lines of business they run on their platforms if they also compete against them, wrapp<\/a>ing up two days of votes that saw the approval of four measures directly aimed at reining in the power of some of the country\u2019s most successful companies.<\/p>\n

The bill passed the committee on a vote of 21-20.<\/p>\n

Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI), chair of the antitrust subcommittee, said the bill forcing Big Tech to choose between running a platform and competing on it was needed because the\u00a0tech\u00a0giants had not played fairly. \u201cGoogle, Amazon and Apple each favor their own products in search results, giving themselves an unfair advantage over competitors,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In other votes on Wednesday and Thursday, the committee approved bills to prohibit platforms like Amazon from disadvantaging rivals who use their platform and to require\u00a0Big\u00a0Tech\u00a0companies contemplating mergers to show that such deals are legal, rather than requiring antitrust enforcers to prove that they are not. It also approved a measure to require platforms to allow users to transfer their data elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Asked about the package of bills, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a California Democrat, said there was concern in both parties about the\u00a0tech\u00a0giants. \u201cThis legislation attempts to address that in the interest of fairness, in the interest of competition, and the interest of meeting the needs of people whose privacy, whose data and all the rest is at the mercy of these\u00a0tech\u00a0companies,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Big Tech CEOs, like Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai (on monitor screen), were frequently seen on the Hill, even via virtual methods, providing testimony about their business models to lawmakers concerned they\u2019ve become too powerful. <\/figcaption>
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There has been opposition to the anti-tech\u00a0measures from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Amazon, Apple, Facebook<\/a> and Alphabet Inc\u2019s Google, and there is no certainty that any of them will become law.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers from both parties have expressed concern about the toughest legislation in the package.<\/p>\n

The committee also voted to increase the budgets of the agencies enforcing antitrust law. A companion measure has passed the Senate. And the panel passed a bill to ensure that antitrust cases brought by state attorneys general<\/a> remain in the court they select.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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