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Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate

The Wall Street Journal2021-11-26

Google, Amazon and Apple step up lobbying in opposition, saying measures will eliminate features consumers want One bipartisan bill would make it illegal for Google to advantage its search engine at ...

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The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series.\nstill have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.\nThe big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.\nAmazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.\nAmazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.\nAmazon declined to comment.\nAmazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.\nBrian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.\nSenior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.\nGoogle has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent public message to business owners who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”\nMark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.\nBut when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”\nFacebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said.&nbsp;“There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”</p>\n<p>The measures must overcome a&nbsp;stepped-up lobbying effort&nbsp;in opposition from companies including&nbsp;Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Google,Amazon.com&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.</p>\n<p>The&nbsp;momentum for the bills&nbsp;in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee&nbsp;passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills&nbsp;after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.</p>\n<p>Throughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.</p>\n<p>At the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.</p>\n<p>Twelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b51a2380a39190a0a1f6ac9d348bc663\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>A former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.</span></p>\n<p>It would make it illegal for them to&nbsp;advantage their own products and services&nbsp;at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.</p>\n<p>Another bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place&nbsp;new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.</p>\n<p>A third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition&nbsp;won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.</p>\n<p>The shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about&nbsp;Meta Platforms&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Instagram and Facebook services.</p>\n<p>Internal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s&nbsp;Facebook Files series.</p>\n<p>still have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.</p>\n<p>The big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.</p>\n<p>Amazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/95c4c38ba59c90df33c4879693e333b9\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.</span></p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.</p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment.</p>\n<p>Amazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.</p>\n<p>Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.</p>\n<p>Senior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.</p>\n<p>Google has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent&nbsp;public message to business owners&nbsp;who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”</p>\n<p>Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.</p>\n<p>But when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”</p>\n<p>Facebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.</p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”</p>\n<p>Senators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality.&nbsp;Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.</p>\n<p>“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.</p>\n<p>Other tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include&nbsp;Spotify Technology&nbsp;SA,Roku&nbsp;Inc.,Yelp&nbsp;Inc.,Match Group&nbsp;Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said. “There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”\nThe measures must overcome a stepped-up lobbying effort in opposition from companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google,Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.\nThe momentum for the bills in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.\nThroughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.\nAt the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.\nTwelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.\nA former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.\nIt would make it illegal for them to advantage their own products and services at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.\nAnother bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.\nA third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.\nThe shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Facebook services.\nInternal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series.\nstill have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.\nThe big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.\nAmazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.\nAmazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.\nAmazon declined to comment.\nAmazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.\nBrian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.\nSenior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.\nGoogle has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent public message to business owners who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”\nMark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.\nBut when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”\nFacebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”\nSenators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality. Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.\n“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.\nOther tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include Spotify Technology SA,Roku Inc.,Yelp Inc.,Match Group Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said.&nbsp;“There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”</p>\n<p>The measures must overcome a&nbsp;stepped-up lobbying effort&nbsp;in opposition from companies including&nbsp;Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Google,Amazon.com&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.</p>\n<p>The&nbsp;momentum for the bills&nbsp;in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee&nbsp;passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills&nbsp;after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.</p>\n<p>Throughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.</p>\n<p>At the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.</p>\n<p>Twelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b51a2380a39190a0a1f6ac9d348bc663\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>A former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.</span></p>\n<p>It would make it illegal for them to&nbsp;advantage their own products and services&nbsp;at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.</p>\n<p>Another bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place&nbsp;new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.</p>\n<p>A third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition&nbsp;won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.</p>\n<p>The shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about&nbsp;Meta Platforms&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Instagram and Facebook services.</p>\n<p>Internal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s&nbsp;Facebook Files series.</p>\n<p>still have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.</p>\n<p>The big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.</p>\n<p>Amazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/95c4c38ba59c90df33c4879693e333b9\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.</span></p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.</p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment.</p>\n<p>Amazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.</p>\n<p>Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.</p>\n<p>Senior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.</p>\n<p>Google has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent&nbsp;public message to business owners&nbsp;who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”</p>\n<p>Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.</p>\n<p>But when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”</p>\n<p>Facebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.</p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”</p>\n<p>Senators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality.&nbsp;Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.</p>\n<p>“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.</p>\n<p>Other tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include&nbsp;Spotify Technology&nbsp;SA,Roku&nbsp;Inc.,Yelp&nbsp;Inc.,Match Group&nbsp;Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said. “There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”\nThe measures must overcome a stepped-up lobbying effort in opposition from companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google,Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.\nThe momentum for the bills in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.\nThroughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.\nAt the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.\nTwelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.\nA former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.\nIt would make it illegal for them to advantage their own products and services at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.\nAnother bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.\nA third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.\nThe shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Facebook services.\nInternal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series.\nstill have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.\nThe big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.\nAmazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.\nAmazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.\nAmazon declined to comment.\nAmazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.\nBrian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.\nSenior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.\nGoogle has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent public message to business owners who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”\nMark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.\nBut when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”\nFacebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”\nSenators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality. Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.\n“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.\nOther tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include Spotify Technology SA,Roku Inc.,Yelp Inc.,Match Group Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":877954953,"gmtCreate":1637882353019,"gmtModify":1637882402941,"author":{"id":"3586941861951066","authorId":"3586941861951066","name":"EHG","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/28e4734e50f795c3218330cbb6c3e9a0","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3586941861951066","authorIdStr":"3586941861951066"},"htmlText":"Like&nbsp;","listText":"Like&nbsp;","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/877954953","repostId":1107812527,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107812527","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1637881168,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107812527?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-11-26 06:59","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107812527","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"Google, Amazon and Apple step up lobbying in opposition, saying measures will eliminate features con","content":"<p>Google, Amazon and Apple step up lobbying in opposition, saying measures will eliminate features consumers want</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/76267c9ab474afadc49e19ebf8054433\" tg-width=\"1290\" tg-height=\"860\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>One bipartisan bill would make it illegal for Google to advantage its search engine at the expense of other businesses that rely on it.</span></p>\n<p>WASHINGTON—Support for curbing large technology companies’ market power is widening in the Senate, with lawmakers in both parties endorsing new legal constraints on search engines, e-marketplaces, app stores and other online platforms.</p>\n<p>Lawmakers say they are responding to&nbsp;public concerns&nbsp;over the size and influence of the tech companies.</p>\n<p>“I have been working on these issues for years, and it feels like we have finally reached a tipping point where we will take serious steps forward,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said.&nbsp;“There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”</p>\n<p>The measures must overcome a&nbsp;stepped-up lobbying effort&nbsp;in opposition from companies including&nbsp;Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Google,Amazon.com&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.</p>\n<p>The&nbsp;momentum for the bills&nbsp;in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee&nbsp;passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills&nbsp;after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.</p>\n<p>Throughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.</p>\n<p>At the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.</p>\n<p>Twelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b51a2380a39190a0a1f6ac9d348bc663\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>A former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.</span></p>\n<p>It would make it illegal for them to&nbsp;advantage their own products and services&nbsp;at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.</p>\n<p>Another bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place&nbsp;new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.</p>\n<p>A third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition&nbsp;won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.</p>\n<p>The shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about&nbsp;Meta Platforms&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Instagram and Facebook services.</p>\n<p>Internal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s&nbsp;Facebook Files series.</p>\n<p>still have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.</p>\n<p>The big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.</p>\n<p>Amazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/95c4c38ba59c90df33c4879693e333b9\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.</span></p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.</p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment.</p>\n<p>Amazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.</p>\n<p>Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.</p>\n<p>Senior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.</p>\n<p>Google has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent&nbsp;public message to business owners&nbsp;who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”</p>\n<p>Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.</p>\n<p>But when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”</p>\n<p>Facebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.</p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”</p>\n<p>Senators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality.&nbsp;Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.</p>\n<p>“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.</p>\n<p>Other tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include&nbsp;Spotify Technology&nbsp;SA,Roku&nbsp;Inc.,Yelp&nbsp;Inc.,Match Group&nbsp;Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said. “There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”\nThe measures must overcome a stepped-up lobbying effort in opposition from companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google,Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.\nThe momentum for the bills in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.\nThroughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.\nAt the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.\nTwelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.\nA former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.\nIt would make it illegal for them to advantage their own products and services at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.\nAnother bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.\nA third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.\nThe shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Facebook services.\nInternal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series.\nstill have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.\nThe big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.\nAmazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.\nAmazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.\nAmazon declined to comment.\nAmazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.\nBrian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.\nSenior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.\nGoogle has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent public message to business owners who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”\nMark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.\nBut when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”\nFacebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”\nSenators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality. Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.\n“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.\nOther tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include Spotify Technology SA,Roku Inc.,Yelp Inc.,Match Group Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"langContent":"CN"},{"id":877955806,"gmtCreate":1637882288212,"gmtModify":1637882288361,"author":{"id":"3581679936650072","authorId":"3581679936650072","name":"WWTan","avatar":"https://static.laohu8.com/default-avatar.jpg","vip":1,"crmLevel":2,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3581679936650072","authorIdStr":"3581679936650072"},"htmlText":"Like","listText":"Like","text":"Like","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":2,"commentSize":0,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/877955806","repostId":1107812527,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107812527","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1637881168,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107812527?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-11-26 06:59","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107812527","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"Google, Amazon and Apple step up lobbying in opposition, saying measures will eliminate features con","content":"<p>Google, Amazon and Apple step up lobbying in opposition, saying measures will eliminate features consumers want</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/76267c9ab474afadc49e19ebf8054433\" tg-width=\"1290\" tg-height=\"860\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>One bipartisan bill would make it illegal for Google to advantage its search engine at the expense of other businesses that rely on it.</span></p>\n<p>WASHINGTON—Support for curbing large technology companies’ market power is widening in the Senate, with lawmakers in both parties endorsing new legal constraints on search engines, e-marketplaces, app stores and other online platforms.</p>\n<p>Lawmakers say they are responding to&nbsp;public concerns&nbsp;over the size and influence of the tech companies.</p>\n<p>“I have been working on these issues for years, and it feels like we have finally reached a tipping point where we will take serious steps forward,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said.&nbsp;“There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”</p>\n<p>The measures must overcome a&nbsp;stepped-up lobbying effort&nbsp;in opposition from companies including&nbsp;Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Google,Amazon.com&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.</p>\n<p>The&nbsp;momentum for the bills&nbsp;in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee&nbsp;passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills&nbsp;after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.</p>\n<p>Throughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.</p>\n<p>At the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.</p>\n<p>Twelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b51a2380a39190a0a1f6ac9d348bc663\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>A former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.</span></p>\n<p>It would make it illegal for them to&nbsp;advantage their own products and services&nbsp;at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.</p>\n<p>Another bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place&nbsp;new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.</p>\n<p>A third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition&nbsp;won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.</p>\n<p>The shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about&nbsp;Meta Platforms&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Instagram and Facebook services.</p>\n<p>Internal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s&nbsp;Facebook Files series.</p>\n<p>still have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.</p>\n<p>The big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.</p>\n<p>Amazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/95c4c38ba59c90df33c4879693e333b9\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.</span></p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.</p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment.</p>\n<p>Amazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.</p>\n<p>Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.</p>\n<p>Senior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.</p>\n<p>Google has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent&nbsp;public message to business owners&nbsp;who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”</p>\n<p>Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.</p>\n<p>But when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”</p>\n<p>Facebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.</p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”</p>\n<p>Senators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality.&nbsp;Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.</p>\n<p>“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.</p>\n<p>Other tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include&nbsp;Spotify Technology&nbsp;SA,Roku&nbsp;Inc.,Yelp&nbsp;Inc.,Match Group&nbsp;Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said. “There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”\nThe measures must overcome a stepped-up lobbying effort in opposition from companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google,Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.\nThe momentum for the bills in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.\nThroughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.\nAt the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.\nTwelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.\nA former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.\nIt would make it illegal for them to advantage their own products and services at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.\nAnother bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.\nA third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.\nThe shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Facebook services.\nInternal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series.\nstill have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.\nThe big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.\nAmazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.\nAmazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.\nAmazon declined to comment.\nAmazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.\nBrian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.\nSenior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.\nGoogle has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent public message to business owners who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”\nMark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.\nBut when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”\nFacebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”\nSenators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality. Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.\n“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.\nOther tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include Spotify Technology SA,Roku Inc.,Yelp Inc.,Match Group Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said.&nbsp;“There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”</p>\n<p>The measures must overcome a&nbsp;stepped-up lobbying effort&nbsp;in opposition from companies including&nbsp;Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Google,Amazon.com&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.</p>\n<p>The&nbsp;momentum for the bills&nbsp;in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee&nbsp;passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills&nbsp;after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.</p>\n<p>Throughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.</p>\n<p>At the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.</p>\n<p>Twelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b51a2380a39190a0a1f6ac9d348bc663\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>A former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.</span></p>\n<p>It would make it illegal for them to&nbsp;advantage their own products and services&nbsp;at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.</p>\n<p>Another bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place&nbsp;new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.</p>\n<p>A third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition&nbsp;won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.</p>\n<p>The shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about&nbsp;Meta Platforms&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Instagram and Facebook services.</p>\n<p>Internal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s&nbsp;Facebook Files series.</p>\n<p>still have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.</p>\n<p>The big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.</p>\n<p>Amazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/95c4c38ba59c90df33c4879693e333b9\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.</span></p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.</p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment.</p>\n<p>Amazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.</p>\n<p>Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.</p>\n<p>Senior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.</p>\n<p>Google has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent&nbsp;public message to business owners&nbsp;who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”</p>\n<p>Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.</p>\n<p>But when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”</p>\n<p>Facebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.</p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”</p>\n<p>Senators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality.&nbsp;Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.</p>\n<p>“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.</p>\n<p>Other tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include&nbsp;Spotify Technology&nbsp;SA,Roku&nbsp;Inc.,Yelp&nbsp;Inc.,Match Group&nbsp;Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said. “There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”\nThe measures must overcome a stepped-up lobbying effort in opposition from companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google,Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.\nThe momentum for the bills in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.\nThroughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.\nAt the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.\nTwelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.\nA former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.\nIt would make it illegal for them to advantage their own products and services at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.\nAnother bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.\nA third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.\nThe shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Facebook services.\nInternal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series.\nstill have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.\nThe big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.\nAmazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.\nAmazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.\nAmazon declined to comment.\nAmazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.\nBrian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.\nSenior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.\nGoogle has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent public message to business owners who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”\nMark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.\nBut when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”\nFacebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”\nSenators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality. Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.\n“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.\nOther tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include Spotify Technology SA,Roku Inc.,Yelp Inc.,Match Group Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said.&nbsp;“There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”</p>\n<p>The measures must overcome a&nbsp;stepped-up lobbying effort&nbsp;in opposition from companies including&nbsp;Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Google,Amazon.com&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.</p>\n<p>The&nbsp;momentum for the bills&nbsp;in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee&nbsp;passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills&nbsp;after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.</p>\n<p>Throughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.</p>\n<p>At the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.</p>\n<p>Twelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b51a2380a39190a0a1f6ac9d348bc663\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>A former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.</span></p>\n<p>It would make it illegal for them to&nbsp;advantage their own products and services&nbsp;at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.</p>\n<p>Another bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place&nbsp;new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.</p>\n<p>A third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition&nbsp;won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.</p>\n<p>The shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about&nbsp;Meta Platforms&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Instagram and Facebook services.</p>\n<p>Internal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s&nbsp;Facebook Files series.</p>\n<p>still have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.</p>\n<p>The big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.</p>\n<p>Amazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/95c4c38ba59c90df33c4879693e333b9\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.</span></p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.</p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment.</p>\n<p>Amazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.</p>\n<p>Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.</p>\n<p>Senior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.</p>\n<p>Google has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent&nbsp;public message to business owners&nbsp;who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”</p>\n<p>Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.</p>\n<p>But when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”</p>\n<p>Facebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.</p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”</p>\n<p>Senators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality.&nbsp;Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.</p>\n<p>“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.</p>\n<p>Other tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include&nbsp;Spotify Technology&nbsp;SA,Roku&nbsp;Inc.,Yelp&nbsp;Inc.,Match Group&nbsp;Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said. “There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”\nThe measures must overcome a stepped-up lobbying effort in opposition from companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google,Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.\nThe momentum for the bills in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.\nThroughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.\nAt the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.\nTwelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.\nA former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.\nIt would make it illegal for them to advantage their own products and services at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.\nAnother bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.\nA third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.\nThe shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Facebook services.\nInternal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series.\nstill have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.\nThe big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.\nAmazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.\nAmazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.\nAmazon declined to comment.\nAmazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.\nBrian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.\nSenior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.\nGoogle has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent public message to business owners who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”\nMark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.\nBut when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”\nFacebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”\nSenators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality. Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.\n“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.\nOther tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include Spotify Technology SA,Roku Inc.,Yelp Inc.,Match Group Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.","news_type":1},"isVote":1,"likeStatus":false,"favoriteStatus":false,"reportStatus":false,"tweetType":1,"comments":[{"id":6725451,"gmtCreate":1637883409673,"gmtModify":1637883409769,"authorId":3553846715363515,"author":{"id":3553846715363515,"idStr":"3553846715363515","authorId":3553846715363515,"name":"thatsy","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/f26fbbdbb8bc4a4041112e5874d1041e","vip":1,"crmLevel":3,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"individualDisplayBadges":[]},"repliedAuthorId":0,"objectId":877956208,"type":1,"supId":0,"prevId":0,"content":"To the moon!","text":"To the moon!","html":"To the moon!"}],"langContent":"CN"},{"id":877951811,"gmtCreate":1637882026724,"gmtModify":1637882026983,"author":{"id":"3575011341539105","authorId":"3575011341539105","name":"kuppi","avatar":"https://static.tigerbbs.com/1a1c96e4fc6f6f67de0450751c853214","vip":1,"crmLevel":4,"crmLevelSwitch":0,"idStr":"3575011341539105","authorIdStr":"3575011341539105"},"htmlText":"Interesting article","listText":"Interesting article","text":"Interesting article","images":[],"top":1,"highlighted":1,"essential":1,"paper":1,"likeSize":1,"commentSize":1,"repostSize":0,"link":"https://laohu8.com/post/877951811","repostId":1107812527,"repostType":4,"repost":{"id":"1107812527","kind":"news","pubTimestamp":1637881168,"share":"https://www.laohu8.com/m/news/1107812527?lang=&edition=full","pubTime":"2021-11-26 06:59","market":"us","language":"en","title":"Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate","url":"https://stock-news.laohu8.com/highlight/detail?id=1107812527","media":"The Wall Street Journal","summary":"Google, Amazon and Apple step up lobbying in opposition, saying measures will eliminate features con","content":"<p>Google, Amazon and Apple step up lobbying in opposition, saying measures will eliminate features consumers want</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/76267c9ab474afadc49e19ebf8054433\" tg-width=\"1290\" tg-height=\"860\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>One bipartisan bill would make it illegal for Google to advantage its search engine at the expense of other businesses that rely on it.</span></p>\n<p>WASHINGTON—Support for curbing large technology companies’ market power is widening in the Senate, with lawmakers in both parties endorsing new legal constraints on search engines, e-marketplaces, app stores and other online platforms.</p>\n<p>Lawmakers say they are responding to&nbsp;public concerns&nbsp;over the size and influence of the tech companies.</p>\n<p>“I have been working on these issues for years, and it feels like we have finally reached a tipping point where we will take serious steps forward,” Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said.&nbsp;“There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”</p>\n<p>The measures must overcome a&nbsp;stepped-up lobbying effort&nbsp;in opposition from companies including&nbsp;Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Google,Amazon.com&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.</p>\n<p>The&nbsp;momentum for the bills&nbsp;in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee&nbsp;passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills&nbsp;after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.</p>\n<p>Throughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.</p>\n<p>At the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.</p>\n<p>Twelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b51a2380a39190a0a1f6ac9d348bc663\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>A former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.</span></p>\n<p>It would make it illegal for them to&nbsp;advantage their own products and services&nbsp;at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.</p>\n<p>Another bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place&nbsp;new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.</p>\n<p>A third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition&nbsp;won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.</p>\n<p>The shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about&nbsp;Meta Platforms&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Instagram and Facebook services.</p>\n<p>Internal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s&nbsp;Facebook Files series.</p>\n<p>still have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.</p>\n<p>The big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.</p>\n<p>Amazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/95c4c38ba59c90df33c4879693e333b9\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.</span></p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.</p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment.</p>\n<p>Amazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.</p>\n<p>Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.</p>\n<p>Senior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.</p>\n<p>Google has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent&nbsp;public message to business owners&nbsp;who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”</p>\n<p>Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.</p>\n<p>But when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”</p>\n<p>Facebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.</p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”</p>\n<p>Senators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality.&nbsp;Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.</p>\n<p>“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.</p>\n<p>Other tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include&nbsp;Spotify Technology&nbsp;SA,Roku&nbsp;Inc.,Yelp&nbsp;Inc.,Match Group&nbsp;Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said. “There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”\nThe measures must overcome a stepped-up lobbying effort in opposition from companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google,Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.\nThe momentum for the bills in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.\nThroughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.\nAt the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.\nTwelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.\nA former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.\nIt would make it illegal for them to advantage their own products and services at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.\nAnother bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.\nA third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.\nThe shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Facebook services.\nInternal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series.\nstill have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.\nThe big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.\nAmazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.\nAmazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.\nAmazon declined to comment.\nAmazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.\nBrian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.\nSenior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.\nGoogle has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent public message to business owners who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”\nMark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.\nBut when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”\nFacebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”\nSenators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality. Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.\n“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.\nOther tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include Spotify Technology SA,Roku Inc.,Yelp Inc.,Match Group Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said.&nbsp;“There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”</p>\n<p>The measures must overcome a&nbsp;stepped-up lobbying effort&nbsp;in opposition from companies including&nbsp;Alphabet&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Google,Amazon.com&nbsp;Inc.&nbsp;and&nbsp;Apple&nbsp;Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.</p>\n<p>The&nbsp;momentum for the bills&nbsp;in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee&nbsp;passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills&nbsp;after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.</p>\n<p>Throughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.</p>\n<p>At the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.</p>\n<p>Twelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/b51a2380a39190a0a1f6ac9d348bc663\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>A former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.</span></p>\n<p>It would make it illegal for them to&nbsp;advantage their own products and services&nbsp;at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.</p>\n<p>Another bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place&nbsp;new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.</p>\n<p>A third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition&nbsp;won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.</p>\n<p>The shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about&nbsp;Meta Platforms&nbsp;Inc.’s&nbsp;Instagram and Facebook services.</p>\n<p>Internal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s&nbsp;Facebook Files series.</p>\n<p>still have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.</p>\n<p>The big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.</p>\n<p>Amazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.</p>\n<p class=\"t-img-caption\"><img src=\"https://static.tigerbbs.com/95c4c38ba59c90df33c4879693e333b9\" tg-width=\"1050\" tg-height=\"701\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\"><span>Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.</span></p>\n<p>Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.</p>\n<p>Amazon declined to comment.</p>\n<p>Amazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.</p>\n<p>Brian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.</p>\n<p>Senior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.</p>\n<p>Google has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent&nbsp;public message to business owners&nbsp;who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”</p>\n<p>Mark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.</p>\n<p>But when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”</p>\n<p>Facebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.</p>\n<p>An Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”</p>\n<p>Senators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality.&nbsp;Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.</p>\n<p>“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.</p>\n<p>Other tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include&nbsp;Spotify Technology&nbsp;SA,Roku&nbsp;Inc.,Yelp&nbsp;Inc.,Match Group&nbsp;Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. The bills generally would apply only to the largest tech companies.</p>","collect":0,"html":"<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html>\n<head>\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />\n<meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0,user-scalable=no\"/>\n<meta name=\"format-detection\" content=\"telephone=no,email=no,address=no\" />\n<title>Antitrust Tech Bills Gain Bipartisan Momentum in Senate</title>\n<style type=\"text/css\">\na,abbr,acronym,address,applet,article,aside,audio,b,big,blockquote,body,canvas,caption,center,cite,code,dd,del,details,dfn,div,dl,dt,\nem,embed,fieldset,figcaption,figure,footer,form,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,header,hgroup,html,i,iframe,img,ins,kbd,label,legend,li,mark,menu,nav,\nobject,ol,output,p,pre,q,ruby,s,samp,section,small,span,strike,strong,sub,summary,sup,table,tbody,td,tfoot,th,thead,time,tr,tt,u,ul,var,video{ font:inherit;margin:0;padding:0;vertical-align:baseline;border:0 }\nbody{ font-size:16px; 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Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some of the key bills, said. “There is bipartisan momentum to get something done, and the public is on our side.”\nThe measures must overcome a stepped-up lobbying effort in opposition from companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google,Amazon.com Inc. and Apple Inc.,which say many of the proposals will hurt consumers who have grown dependent on their products and services.\nThe momentum for the bills in the Senate echoes the earlier push in the House. The House Judiciary Committee passed a raft of far-reaching antitrust bills after a tumultuous meeting in June that stretched over two days, including an all-night session.\nThroughout the meeting, lawmakers sympathetic to the tech companies—including several members of California’s powerful congressional delegation—raised strenuous objections.\nAt the time of the committee vote, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D., Md.) said lawmakers would have to negotiate the bills’ specifics to address the objections and wanted to see what the Senate would pass.\nTwelve senators—six Republicans and six Democrats, including Ms. Klobuchar—are backing the proposed American Innovation and Choice Online Act, a bill that would treat Amazon’s marketplace or Google’s search engine like a dominant railroad operator, essential to commerce.\nA former Facebook data scientist spoke in October during a Senate hearing in Washington as lawmakers seek to pass consumer-protection legislation.\nIt would make it illegal for them to advantage their own products and services at the expense of other businesses that rely on the platforms.\nAnother bipartisan group is backing a bill that would place new restrictions on smartphone app stores, including in-app payment systems and app stores’ search results.\nA third group of lawmakers wants to force dominant tech companies to prove that any new merger or acquisition won’t hurt competition, going beyond the current legal standard.\nThe shift comes as lawmakers also are stepping up their efforts to pass consumer-protection legislation, including greater privacy protections for children and others, spurred by recent revelations about Meta Platforms Inc.’s Instagram and Facebook services.\nInternal research by the company found evidence that its algorithms foster discord and that its Instagram app is harmful for a sizable percentage of its users, notably teenage girls, among other findings. The documents provided the foundation for The Wall Street Journal’s Facebook Files series.\nstill have a long way to go to become law. Some similar proposals passed a House committee in June but have been on hold since then as Congress struggled to approve a separate infrastructure bill.\nThe big tech companies have continued to be big spenders this year on lobbying Congress over legislation that threatens them, including the antitrust bills.\nAmazon has spent more than $15.3 million so far this year—more than any other individual company—according to statistics compiled by OpenSecrets, a nonpartisan watchdog group. Facebook has spent about $14.7 million, making it the second-biggest spender. Alphabet has spent almost $9 million.\nSen. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), a lead sponsor of some tech antitrust bills, cites bipartisan momentum and public support to pass legislation.\nAmazon CEO Andy Jassy raised concerns about the antitrust bills while meeting with lawmakers in September during his first trip to Washington as chief executive, a person familiar with the matter said. He repeated the company’s contention that it represents a small slice of the overall retail industry, this person said.\nAmazon declined to comment.\nAmazon has separately reached out to companies that sell on its online marketplace, warning about the legislation’s potentially negative impact. And it has suggested that if the self-preferencing bill becomes law, it might have to stop allowing other companies to sell via the Amazon marketplace.\nBrian Huseman, vice president of public policy for Amazon, has said that removing the selection of these sellers from Amazon’s store would likely mean less competition for products and higher prices for consumers.\nSenior executives at Apple and Google have also made trips to Washington to make their case against the legislation.\nGoogle has been seeking to muster opposition. In a recent public message to business owners who use Google services, the company said the bill could end up “hurting your productivity if Gmail, Docs, and Calendar are split up and they no longer work together seamlessly.”\nMark Isakowitz, Google’s vice president for government affairs and public policy, said in October the company doesn’t oppose antitrust scrutiny, or more regulation of privacy and online platforms serving children.\nBut when it comes to the new antitrust proposals, he added, “Congress should carefully consider the unintended consequences for Americans and small businesses of breaking a range of popular products that people use every day.”\nFacebook has reported lobbying on several competition bills, including a House version of the merger legislation. It declined to comment.\nAn Apple spokesperson said the company wants “to work with policy makers to create laws that help support competition while also protecting users’ privacy and data security.”\nSenators say the companies’ concerns are overblown. They point to exceptions in the self-preferencing bill for company actions that protect users or enhance a platform’s functionality. Those provisions helped Ms. Klobuchar recruit Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, and other Republican co-sponsors.\n“I’m a supporter of free markets, but markets can’t operate freely if a handful of companies can control every access point,” said Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R., Wyo.), a sponsor of the self-preferencing and app-store bills.\nOther tech companies are supporting the legislation as a way to boost competition—and their own bottom lines. Those include Spotify Technology SA,Roku Inc.,Yelp Inc.,Match Group Inc.,and DuckDuckGo Inc. 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