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WASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) – Thirteen organizations, many allied with high-tech companies, wrote to the US House Judiciary Commission on Monday urging lawmakers to vote against two of the more far-reaching antitrust laws the committee will discuss this week. .
The two bills – one tabled by Rep. David Cicilline, Chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee, and the other by Rep Pramila Jayapal – address the issue of giant companies, such as Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) and Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL. O) Google, creating a platform for other businesses and then competing with those same businesses.
Cicilline’s bill would prohibit platforms from giving benefits to their businesses, while Jayapal’s would prohibit platforms from competing on their own platform. Read more
The groups said Cicilline’s bill would prevent Google from including YouTube videos in search results and prevent Apple from pre-installing “Find My Phone” on new iPhones. They argued that Jayapal’s bill would force companies like Google to sell Maps, YouTube, and other free services.
“We believe voters want Congress to fix the things that are broken, not break or ban the things they think are working well,” the groups.
Among the 13 signatories were the Chamber of Progress, Computer and Communications Industry Association, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, and NetChoice.
Reporting by Diane Bartz; Editing by Howard Goller
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