Read The Five Big Tech Bills Congress Just Introduced

Alex Kantrowitz
1 min readJun 14, 2021

Here’s the full text of the five bills aimed at the heart of the tech giants

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On Friday, Congress introduced five bills meant to combat Big Tech’s anti-competitive practices.

If signed into law, the bills would usher in a new era of anti-trust law, one updated for an age when giant tech platforms rule the economy — not railroads.

The bills address everything from the tech platforms’ self-dealing, to the way they acquire companies, to the chronic underfunding of regulators like the FTC and DOJ

Big Technology has obtained the bills in full and is publishing them here. To get the latest in your inbox, subscribe here: https://bigtechnology.substack.com

Bill 1: American Innovation and Choice Online Act

Bill 2: Ending Platform Monopolies

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Alex Kantrowitz
Alex Kantrowitz

Written by Alex Kantrowitz

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