Sen. Elizabeth Warren published an extensive plan on Friday to break up big tech companies likes Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple. If elected president in 2020, Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, said that she would pass legislation that would classify large tech platforms with annual global revenue of $25 billion or more as “platform utilities,” and break them apart via…
Ok, Facebook.
Paris Martineau in The Outline: Facebook, which Mark Zuckerberg would like to remind you is totally, definitely, absolutely not a monopoly, wants Congress to know it’s all about fair competition. Or at least that’s how the company phrased it in its over 500 page-long list of answers to American lawmakers released Monday. Among the pressures it was trying…
Privacy and anti-monopoly advocacy groups launched the Freedom from Facebook campaign on Monday, demanding that the Federal Trade Commission force the social media giant to break up into four separate companies. Sensing a moment of weakness, activists hope to establish stronger privacy protections and cross-platform communication.
Gizmodo notes: Privacy and anti-monopoly advocacy groups launched the Freedom from Facebook campaign on Monday, demanding that the Federal Trade Commission force the social media giant to break up into four separate companies. Sensing a moment of weakness, activists hope to establish stronger privacy protections and cross-platform communication. Additionally: On Monday, Freedom from Facebook launched a petition…
60 Minutes reports on the power of Google, a company whose critics say has stifled competition
Interesting look at Google on 60 Minutes. Some pull quotes: People tell their search engines things they wouldn’t even tell their wives. I mean, it’s a very powerful and yet very intimate technology. And that gives the company that controls it a mind-boggling degree of control over our entire society. Google wields enormous power…