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Amazon Had a Campaign to Destroy Competitors “the Way a Cheetah Would Pursue a Sickly Giselle”

Courtesy of Pam Martens

Congressman David Cicilline, Democrat of Rhode Island

David Cicilline, Chair of the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law

The CEOs of four of the most valuable technology companies in the world — Google’s Sundar Pichai, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Tim Cook — testified remotely on Wednesday in a House investigation into whether they are exercising monopoly power in violation of antitrust law in the United States and need to be broken up or more tightly regulated.

Amazon and Facebook came out of the hearing the most severely damaged with evidence obtained by the House Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law that strongly suggests they have engaged in illegal, predatory behavior.

There was also significant evidence that Google and Apple are engaging in practices that stifle competition and harm America.

Fines and new regulatory legislation are going to be needed to rein in the abuses.

What was missing from the hearing, unfortunately, was the critical role that Wall Street and the Securities and Exchange Commission have played behind the scenes that has enabled these tech firms to grow so powerful. We’ll get to that shortly, but first let’s get to what the hearing did cover.


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