How Punishing Big Tech Harms America
Luke Hogg
The National Interest
April 7, 2022
Last week, the Department of Justice (DOJ)
sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee expressing its support for legislation that would ban large tech platforms (primarily Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta) from a range of “discriminatory” behaviors such as self-preferencing their own products. The letter argues that the
American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) is necessary to preserve U.S. global competitiveness and prevent Big Tech from using its market power to threaten “the economic liberty that undergirds our democracy.” But in the bipartisan rush to punish Big Tech, neither the DOJ nor policymakers seem to have considered how antitrust reform efforts would harm America’s global tech leadership when it is needed more than ever.
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