{"id":29668,"date":"2020-08-04T16:33:31","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T20:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=29668"},"modified":"2021-06-18T07:11:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T11:11:18","slug":"big-techs-showdown-with-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/04\/big-techs-showdown-with-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech&rsquo;s Showdown With Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/07\/31\/a-quick-rundown-of-big-techs-showdown-with-congress\/\">Josh Centers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2020\/07\/31\/a-quick-rundown-of-big-techs-showdown-with-congress\/\"><p>CEOs Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Tim Cook (Apple), Sundar Pichai (Alphabet\/Google), and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) were (virtually) brought before the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing ostensibly about antitrust concerns regarding big tech.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If you have most of a day to kill, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WBFDQvIrWYM&amp;feature=emb_logo\">watch the entire hearing on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>If you want something even more concise, the BBC breaks the five-hour ordeal into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-53592751\">five key points<\/a>[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2020\/antitrust-politics\/\">Ben Thompson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/stratechery.com\/2020\/antitrust-politics\/\"><p>The only thing more predictable than members of Congress using hearings to make statements instead of ask questions, and when they do ask questions, usually of the &ldquo;gotcha&rdquo; variety, refusing to allow witnesses to answer (even as those witnesses seek to run out the clock), is people watching said hearings and griping about how worthless the whole exercise is.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Lina Khan, who rose to prominence with her 2017 law review article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yalelawjournal.org\/note\/amazons-antitrust-paradox\">Amazon&rsquo;s Antitrust Paradox<\/a>, and who served as counsel for the antitrust subcommittee over the course of the investigation that culminated in Wednesday&rsquo;s hearings, summarized the <a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jeclap\/article\/9\/3\/131\/4915966\">New Brandeis Movement<\/a> of antitrust in 2018[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/03\/google-in-its-own-search-results\/\">Google in Its Own Search Results<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/29\/tim-cooks-app-store-testimony\/\">Tim Cook&rsquo;s App Store Testimony<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Centers: CEOs Jeff Bezos (Amazon), Tim Cook (Apple), Sundar Pichai (Alphabet\/Google), and Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook) were (virtually) brought before the House Judiciary Committee for a hearing ostensibly about antitrust concerns regarding big tech.[&#8230;]If you have most of a day to kill, you can watch the entire hearing on YouTube.[&#8230;]If you want something even more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2020-08-04T20:33:35Z","apple_news_api_id":"70807ee7-9a6d-45ab-a5de-3a2da341d828","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-06-18T11:11:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcIB-55ptRaul3joto0HYKA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,2085,38,101,25,51,209],"class_list":["post-29668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-amazon","tag-antitrust","tag-apple","tag-business","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-legal"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29669,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29668\/revisions\/29669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}