Antitrust: Hawley and Klobuchar on the big tech battles to come

The Republican senator has written a sort of manifesto for the presidential primary. The Democrat seems focused on the supreme court

• Hawley rails at big tech firms but he has invested in them

Antitrust is hot. In February, the Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act of 2021. Weeks later, the Missouri senator Josh Hawley proposed the Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act. Both bills are pending before the Senate judiciary committee.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/02/antitrust-tyranny-of-big-tech-josh-hawley-amy-klobuchar-google-facebook-amazon