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With Democrats Running Antitrust, Amazon and Apple Aren’t Safe
They could be considered just as dominant as Facebook and Google, which have already been sued.
Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos speaks via videoconference during a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing last summer.
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The attempts to curb allegedly anticompetitive behavior by large technology companies got serious in 2020, when federal and state agencies filed five separate antitrust lawsuits against Alphabet Inc.’s Google and Facebook Inc.
The other two companies at the center of the storm—Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc.—have yet to face legal action, and with officials dedicating significant resources to existing litigation, it’s possible to imagine them skirting lawsuits. But that’s unlikely, some antitrust experts say, especially now that Democrats control the White House and federal enforcement agencies.
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With Democrats Running Antitrust, Amazon and Apple Aren’t Safe