'The totality of the evidence produced during this investigation demonstrates the pressing need for legislative action and reform,' states congressional report following a 16-month probe.
, the digital rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation said that "many of the report's recommendations echo calls EFF has also made, proof of just how obviously effective, needed, and common-sense they are," adding that it is "pleased to see the report go beyond U.S. antitrust law's narrow focus on consumer prices."
The House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust spent 16 months investigating Big Tech, resulting in a 450-page that found the four tech companies wield abusive monopoly power and suggesting that lawmakers take steps to break them up.--Vahid Razavi, Ethics In Tech ;𠇏irst off, this is an investigation on par with the big investigations of monopoly power that Congress has done in the past. Notably the TNEC, which conducted a huge investigation in the 1930s that drove substantial changes in monopoly policy and increased enforcement.;”The committee found that the companies, whose operations span multiple industries, use their dominance in one area of their business to undercut the competition in other areas.
Second, Google uses anti-competitive contracts, including ones that "required smartphone manufacturers to pre-install and give default status to Google's own apps."
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