Big Tech to face another bipartisan antitrust bill
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WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of lawmakers, headed by Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Grassley, plan to introduce a invoice that may bar Massive Tech platforms, like Amazon and Alphabet’s Google, from favoring their services.
The invoice is one in every of a slew launched on this Congress aimed toward reining in tech companies, together with trade leaders Fb and Apple . To this point none have turn out to be legislation though one, a broader measure to extend assets for antitrust enforcers, has handed the Senate.
This invoice, which Klobuchar’s workplace mentioned can be launched early subsequent week, can be a companion to a measure which has handed the Home Judiciary Committee. It should go each homes of Congress to turn out to be legislation.
Klobuchar and Grassley’s invoice would particularly prohibit platforms from requiring corporations working on their websites to buy the platform’s items or providers and ban them from biasing search outcomes to favor the platform.
“As dominant digital platforms — among the largest corporations our world has ever seen — more and more give choice to their very own services, we should put insurance policies in place to make sure small companies and entrepreneurs nonetheless have the chance to reach the digital market,” Klobuchar mentioned in an announcement.
Klobuchar is chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee whereas Grassley is the highest Republican on the complete committee. Co-sponsors embrace Democrats like Senator Dick Durbin, chair of the complete Judiciary Committee, Richard Blumenthal and Cory Booker, in addition to Republicans Lindsey Graham, John Kennedy and Cynthia Lummis.
Reporting by Diane Bartz; Modifying by Aurora Ellis
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