Washington, The US House Judiciary Committee has released new internal documents that show how Amazon, Facebook, and Google favoured their own products and abused their dominance to suppress competition from their rivals. Internal Facebook documents among the new documents show the company views itself as dominant in the social networking market and insulates itself from competitive threats.
"Other newly released documents include Google internal communications demonstrating how it leverages its control over the Android mobile operating system to prevent smartphone manufacturers from introducing products or services that compete with Google's family of mobile apps," the House Judiciary Committee stated on Tuesday.
Internal Amazon documents show how Amazon uses its e-commerce dominance to force third-party sellers to buy Amazon services like fulfilment and distribution.
"From Amazon and Facebook to Google and Apple, there's no doubt that these unregulated tech behemoths have grown too big to care and too powerful to ever prioritise people over profits," said Pramila Jayapal, Vice Chair of the House Antitrust Subcommittee (D-WA).
"This report is extremely clear: Congress must act to protect consumers and promote competition. My Ending Platform Monopolies Act would be a significant step toward limiting Big Tech's power "She continued.
The report comes as US lawmakers work to pass tougher antitrust legislation before the end of the year.
The 450-page report summarises the findings and recommendations of a bipartisan investigation that included seven congressional hearings, nearly 1.3 million internal documents and communications from the investigated firms, and submissions from 38 antitrust experts.
"The findings and recommendations clearly demonstrate that it is long past time for Congress to enact meaningful updates to our antitrust laws to address the lack of competition in digital markets and the monopoly power of dominant platforms like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google," said Jerrold Nadler, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (D-NY).
"The public expects Congress to act, and legislation is ready for a vote on both the House and Senate floors. I beg the leadership to expedite the passage of this legislation "Nadler continued.
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