Posted on 01/19/2022 7:25:46 PM PST by RandFan
Google and Apple are furious with antitrust legislation getting a fresh look in Congress and warned that what’s bad for them is bad for America.
As the Senate Judiciary Committee prepares to review new antitrust proposals, the Big Tech titans are working to undermine support for the bills that could damage their market power.
The judiciary committee is reviewing two proposals on Thursday: the Open App Markets Act, which intends to foster competition with Apple and Google’s app stores, and the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, which seeks to block Big Tech companies from giving preference to their products and disadvantaging competitors.
Kent Walker, Google’s global affairs and chief legal officer, said legislation debated by Congress will “break” its search, maps and email services and give foreign companies an edge. Mr. Walker did not name the specific bills his company opposes in his scathing post on the company’s blog.
“We’re deeply concerned about these unintended consequences,” Mr. Walker wrote. “Antitrust law is about ensuring that companies are competing hard to build their best products for consumers. But the vague and sweeping provisions of these bills would break popular products that help consumers and small businesses, only to benefit a handful of companies who brought their pleas to Washington.”
Apple wrote to lawmakers in opposition to the bills and argued that the legislation would make it more difficult for Apple to protect the privacy and security of Americans’ devices, according to Bloomberg.
Similarly, Mr. Walker wrote that antitrust legislation could prevent Google from securing its products and enable foreign competitors to innovate while Google works to meet the new American rules.
“These bills would impose one set of rules on American companies while giving a pass to foreign companies,” Mr. Walker wrote.
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They just have to pay their bribes, like Microsoft did and so did Suckerberg.
I did a focus group last week, and it was all about messaging against bills like these. The quotes from the rep are straight out of the websites I reviewed.
Every high tech employee in Silicon Valley is trained in the dangers of anti-trust and how easy it is to cross the line once you own more than 50% of a marketplace.
They both know they crossed the line
The app store thing bothers me.. That gives them massive control over competitors.
If Google’s Android unit, which controls the Play store, was split off from Google, nothing would change.
Hey, you doushbags, you screwed Trump and in the process u are getting what u deserve from the people u helped put in office. Bend over aholes,here it comes.
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of idiots!
Rd later.
I’m ok with this, they are the beast.
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