Elizabeth Warren Takes on Big Tech
She thinks Amazon, Facebook, and Google should be splintered.
Big targets.
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Unless your name is Tim Apple, Mark Facebook or Jeff Amazon, you probably think Big Tech has too much power lately. But what to do about it?
Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who is running for president, today called for breaking up Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google to fight their growing market might. This was music to Joe Nocera’s ears, as he has been calling for something like this for a while. But it also makes Joe hope Warren stays in the Senate instead of becoming president, because it will take somebody smart like her in Congress to help a different future Democratic president turn this idea into law.