We can break up monopolies like Facebook and promote healthy competition in the tech market that respects our democracy and our privacy.
Back in February, Elizabeth announced her plan to break up Big Tech and limit the undue influence that tech companies have on our democracy and spread of information.
And as we've seen in the past couple of days, Mark Zuckerberg is not happy — and he's promising to "go to the mat" and fight to maintain Facebook's monopoly if she's elected.
It's clear: Silicon Valley billionaires are willing to sell out our democracy to protect their riches.
Under a Warren Administration, tech companies like Facebook won't have the power to undermine our democracy. Elizabeth will enforce antitrust rules that have been on the books for decades, promote healthy competition so that tech companies are accountable to consumers, and make sure that no tech company has the ability to exploit our private information for profit.
More and more of the things we do online are controlled by a smaller and smaller clique of bigger and bigger tech corporations, who buy up their competitors or force them out of business using predatory tactics — meaning less competition, less innovation, and a less democratic Internet for everyone.
But with Elizabeth's plan to break up Big Tech, instead of just a few giant tech companies calling all the shots, we can have more of a say in the tools we use every day.
That's how we get innovation. That's how we get an internet that connects all of us. That's how we protect our privacy and our democracy in a rapidly changing world.
America has a long history of breaking up monopolies that have too much power in the marketplace — Standard Oil, AT&T, and the railroad industry led to the bipartisan creation of our first antitrust laws.
We can do it again. We can break up monopolies like Facebook and Amazon and promote healthy competition in the tech market that respects our democracy and our privacy. But it's going to take all of us to join the fight, and Elizabeth needs your help.
