US Senator Proposes Splitting Giants of Technology to Take Power

Senator and Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren submitted a proposal on Friday reduce the big tech companies in the United States because he considers that they have "too much power".

Warren said in a statement that, as president, she would be arguing for a law that would designate big companies online with revenues of 25,000 million or more as "public service platforms" which prevent you from owning "any participant of this platform".

The Senator from Mbadachusetts stated that appoint antitrust officials "committed to reversing illegal and anticompetitive technology mergers", including acquisitions made in recent years by Amazon, Facebook and Google.

"Large technology companies today have too much power over our economy, our society and our democracy," he wrote in a blog post on Medium.

"They demolished the competition, used our private information for profit and tipped the balance of the game against everyone, thereby harming small businesses and inhibiting innovation," he said. he declares.

The senator said that will specifically seek to cancel the acquisition by Amazon from the Whole Foods grocery chain and Zappos shoe stores; those of Facebook, who bought WhatsApp and Instagram, as well as the incorporation of the DoubleClick advertising company and the Google Waze navigation app.

"Disarming these mergers will foster healthy competition in the market, which will put pressure on large technology companies to be more responsive to user concerns, including privacy concerns, "he wrote.

The proposal is part of a growing "techlash" movement in the United States, of people disappointed with the technology they use and who oppose companies that have grown and become the most valuable in the world. world, faced with the concern regarding the use of private information of users.