“The responsibility falls to Congress to do that.”Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google declined requests for comment. All but Bezos have testified before Congress in the past, but they will do so this time under unique circumstances. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), one of the panel members who will question the companies, said a few of the documents evince a “copy-acquire-kill” strategy on the part of big tech companies to buy or suppress potential rivals. ADAD“We need to move very quickly, as a Congress, to reassert our authority into regulation of these tech companies and [their] anticompetitive practices,” she said. Buck, a GOP lawmaker, insisted even regulation-wary members of his party might be open to adopting new laws targeting the tech industry.

Source: Washington Post July 27, 2020 10:00 UTC