For too long, monopolies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have abused their unchecked power and exploited outdated antitrust laws to buy up or kill competition and manipulate public discourse to the detriment of our democracy. But these bills could be a gamechanger.
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives is diving into legislation that would set guardrails to hold Big Tech accountable by marking up a historic bipartisan package of antitrust legislation.

For too long, monopolies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have abused their unchecked power and exploited outdated antitrust laws to buy up or kill competition and manipulate public discourse to the detriment of our democracy. But these bills could be a gamechanger.

The new package includes five (5!!) bipartisan bills that would:

  1. Ban these tech monopolies from rigging their own markets;
  2. Prevent them from buying up potential competitors;
  3. Force them to sell off lines of business that create conflicts of interest;
  4. Empower users to take their data with them so they can leave these dominant platforms and interact with them through competing platforms; and
  5. Fortify the underfunded agencies that defend consumers from Big Tech’s abuses and HOLD THEM ACCOUNTABLE.

It’s past time to hold Big Tech accountable, and we need to speak out. Will you speak out now on social media or by sharing this email with friends or family now?

 

The time to level the playing field and hold Big Tech accountable is upon us -- and it’s about time.

Thanks for being in the fight,

Accountable Tech
 



 

We recognize the irony of urging you to take action on the dominant social media platforms we’re fighting to hold accountable, but they are… well… dominant. We must reach people where they are in order to level the playing field.

 

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