Elizabeth Warren Calls To Break Up Facebook, Google, and Amazon

Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren is proposing to break up technology companies, including Amazon.com, Google and Facebook, calling them anti-competitive behemoths that are crowding out competition. From a report: "Twenty-five years ago, Facebook, Google, and Amazon didn't exist. Now they are among the most valuable and well-known companies in the world," Warren wrote in a post on the blogging platform Medium. "It's a great story -- but also one that highlights why the government must break up monopolies and promote competitive markets." Warren's call also comes as Democrats have begun to plan for increased oversight of tech companies after winning control of the House in the 2018 midterm elections. On Wednesday, House and Senate Democrats introduced legislation to establish strong net neutrality protections that would look to prevent major service providers from using their power to manipulate how users experience the internet. Update: In a statement, Warren's team said that the proposal would also apply to Apple. "They would have to structurally separate -- choosing between, for example, running the App Store or offering their own apps," a spokesperson said.

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Split Google ...

[psergiu]

So to get the full search results you'll have to look-up the same thing on:

googleatlantic.com
googlepacific.com
googlesouth.com
googlesouthwest.com
googlewest.com
googletech.com
googleny.com

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Re:Apple?

[Anonymous Coward]

There are Cherokee phone cases for iPhones?

Re:Apple?

[tomhath]

It's a special screen protector...called a smoke screen

Re:No Plan, just Populism

[lgw]

Spoiler: AOC gets primaried in 2020 and gets kicked to the curb, especially if she keeps trying to cover for Ilhan Omar's anti-Semitism and winds up handing the Presidency back to Trump.

If she keeps embarrassing the senior Dem leadership, being primaried would be a gift. With the people she's pissing off, she's on the path to a small plane accident, or a tragic encounter with a drunk driver who fled the scene. She doesn't seem to understand the rules of the game she's playing, but the billionaires who run things have boundaries they don't take lightly to anyone crossing.