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US senators Warren, Graham kick off bipartisan anti-Big Tech push (www.reuters.com)
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WASHINGTON, July 27 (Reuters) - U.S. senators Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat, and Lindsey Graham, a Republican, said on Thursday they would push for an ambitious bill to create a new government regulator empowered to rein in Meta Platforms' (META.O) Facebook, Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google, Amazon.com (AMZN.O) and other Big Tech platforms.

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[–] jimbolauski@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Looks like our politicians are getting ready to shake down tech companies that don't want to be classified as part of "big tech"