Author: Makena Kelly
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has signed on to a plan to break up major tech platforms, as reported by Politico in its Morning Tech newsletter.
Ocasio-Cortez was endorsing a policy previously laid out by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), arguing that because Amazon operates as both a marketplace and the seller of its own products, it has become “an antitrust issue.” Ocasio-Cortez said Facebook should be broken up for similar reasons.
“Facebook as a basic communications platform while also selling ads and also being a surveillance platform,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Those functions should be broken up, but how that gets levied and how that gets approached is what we need to take a fine-tooth comb at.”
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has signed on to a plan to break up major tech platforms, as reported by Politico in its Morning Tech newsletter.
Ocasio-Cortez was endorsing a policy previously laid out by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), arguing that because Amazon operates as both a marketplace and the seller of its own products, it has become “an antitrust issue.” Ocasio-Cortez said Facebook should be broken up for similar reasons.
“Facebook as a basic communications platform while also selling ads and also being a surveillance platform,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Those functions should be broken up, but how that gets levied and how that gets approached is what we need to take a fine-tooth comb at.”
Earlier this year, Warren proposed...
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