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- We Can Break Up Big Tech (Elizabeth Warren) https://medium.com/@teamwarren/heres-how-we-can-break-up-big-tech-9ad9e0da324c 3 comments
- Adding Up the Cost of Tax Breaks for Big Tech’s Data Centers (2016) https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/report-tech-data-center-subsidies 67 comments
- Warren wants to break up big tech companies https://thehill.com/policy/technology/433186-warren-wants-to-break-up-big-tech-companies 6 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren wants to break up big tech. Its workers don’t want to break up with her https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2019/07/27/elizabeth-warren-wants-break-big-tech-its-workers-don-want-break-with-her/grk7wyro8rg4e8zqu3499h/story.html 10 comments politics
- Trump’s interested in breaking up Big Tech for all the wrong reasons https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/10/18659748/trump-cnbc-interview-big-tech 6 comments politics
- U.S. House's antitrust report hints at break-up of Big Tech firms: lawmaker https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-tech-antitrust/u-s-houses-antitrust-report-hints-at-break-up-of-big-tech-firms-lawmaker-idUSKBN26R0EK 4 comments privacy
- Europe Is Breaking Open the Empires of Big Tech https://www.wired.com/story/europe-dma-breaking-open-big-tech/ 2 comments europe
- FTC Head Says He's Willing to Break Up Big Tech https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/ftc-chief-says-willing-to-break-up-companies-amid-big-tech-probe 167 comments technews
- Big Tech Isn’t Breaking Any Privacy Rules if There Aren’t Rules to Break https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-privacy/big-tech-isnt-breaking-any-privacy-rules-if-there-arent-rules-to-break/ 5 comments privacy
- 'America Has a Monopoly Problem': Coalition Backs Legislation to Break Up Big Tech https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/09/02/america-has-monopoly-problem-coalition-backs-legislation-break-big-tech 272 comments technology
- Congress looks to break up Big Tech with bold new antitrust bills https://nypost.com/2021/06/11/congress-looks-to-breakup-big-tech-with-bold-new-antitrust-bills/ 51 comments technology
- Fight breaks out between Ireland and Germany over Big Tech regulation https://www.ft.com/content/37705bcf-c5b6-4ef0-adb8-35a8680dbaec 6 comments worldnews
- Fight breaks out between Ireland and Germany over Big Tech regulation https://www.ft.com/content/37705bcf-c5b6-4ef0-adb8-35a8680dbaec 142 comments europe
- Warren vs. Facebook: Leaked Zuckerberg audio restarts debate about breaking up big tech https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/warren-vs-facebook-leaked-zuckerberg-audio-restarts-debate-about-breaking-n1060816 4 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren’s really simple case for breaking up big tech https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/4/22/18511860/elizabeth-warren-cnn-town-hall-tech 9 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Big Tech and Big Ag. What industries could be next? https://www.boston.com/news/politics/2019/03/31/elizabeth-warren-business-monopolies 27 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren Mounts ‘Break Up Big Tech’ Billboard Near Caltrain http://www.sfweekly.com/news/elizabeth-warren-mounts-break-up-big-tech-billboard-near-caltrain/ 3 comments technology
- Europe threatens to break up Big Tech if it doesn't play by new rules https://edition.cnn.com/2020/12/15/tech/digital-services-act-europe-google-facebook/index.html 5 comments technology
- Republicans Break with Trump for Threatening to Veto Defense Funding Over Big Tech Protection: 'I am Disgusted' https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-break-trump-threatening-veto-defense-funding-over-big-tech-protection-i-am-1551776 72 comments politics
- House Democrats push Congress to break up Big Tech monopolies https://ca.news.yahoo.com/house-judiciary-antitrust-report-211808827.html 4 comments politics
- Big Tech Platforms Have Had a “Profound Negative Effect on Democracy.” Is It Time to Break Them Up? https://www.democracynow.org/2019/10/23/roger_mcnamee_warren_break_up_facebook 18 comments politics
- FTC Chief Says Willing to Break Up Companies Amid Big Tech Probe https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-08-13/ftc-chief-says-willing-to-break-up-companies-amid-big-tech-probe 7 comments technology
- Ocasio-Cortez backs Warren's plan to break up big tech https://thehill.com/policy/technology/442046-ocasio-cortez-backs-warrens-plan-to-break-up-big-tech 4 comments politics
- Elizabeth Warren clashed with Amazon on Twitter, and said she'd break up Big Tech so that it can't 'heckle senators with snotty tweets' https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-warren-amazon-twitter-taxes-unionization-alabama-union-bezos-2021-3 107 comments politics
- Yang: 'It’s Not like Breaking up These Big Tech Companies Will Revive Main Street Businesses' https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/yang-it%E2%80%99s-not-breaking-these-big-tech-companies-will-revive-main-street-businesses-89811 200 comments politics
- Silicon Valley donors are ready to back Elizabeth Warren despite her pledge to break up big tech https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/01/silicon-valley-ready-to-back-elizabeth-warren-despite-tech-break-up-plan.html 27 comments politics
- Breaking up big tech companies like Amazon and Google is supported by two thirds of Americans, poll shows https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/18/20870938/break-up-big-tech-google-facebook-amazon-poll 131 comments economy
- Bill Gates (still) doesn't think regulators should break up Big Tech - He argues that it just creates more companies that behave badly. https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/17/bill-gates-against-big-tech-breakup/ 8 comments technology
- U.S. FTC chief says regulator is prepared to break up big tech firms: Bloomberg https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ftc-tech/u-s-ftc-chief-says-regulator-is-prepared-to-break-up-big-tech-firms-bloomberg-idUSKCN1V3229 4 comments privacy
- U.S. FTC chief says regulator is prepared to break up big tech firms: Bloomberg https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-ftc-tech/u-s-ftc-chief-says-regulator-is-prepared-to-break-up-big-tech-firms-bloomberg-iduskcn1v3229 9 comments technology
- Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple employees donating to Elizabeth Warren, even though she wants to break up big tech https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/04/19/elizabeth-warren-president-tech-campaign-donations-berine-sanders-kamala-harris/ 18 comments politics
- 'Break up big tech's monopoly': Smaller rivals join growing chorus ahead of Congress hearing https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tech-antitrust/break-up-big-techs-monopoly-smaller-rivals-join-growing-chorus-ahead-of-congress-hearing-iduskbn1zg17j 5 comments technology
- In its insatiable pursuit of power, Silicon Valley is fuelling the climate crisis - Big tech isn’t interested in a better world, just a more profitable one. To beat it, we need to break its stranglehold on us https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/10/power-silicon-valley-climate-crisis-big-tech-profitable 44 comments technology
- Elizabeth Warren says she won't accept major donations from tech executives after vowing to break up big tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-warren-wont-accept-large-donations-from-tech-executives-2019-10 946 comments technology
- Elizabeth Warren says she won't accept major donations from tech executives after vowing to break up big tech companies like Facebook, Google, and Amazon https://www.businessinsider.com/elizabeth-warren-wont-accept-large-donations-from-tech-executives-2019-10 23 comments politics
- In its insatiable pursuit of power, Silicon Valley is fuelling the climate crisis. Big tech isn’t interested in a better world, just a more profitable one. To beat it, we need to break its stranglehold on us. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/oct/10/power-silicon-valley-climate-crisis-big-tech-profitable 5 comments technology
- Break 'em up, say Dems: Why the 2020 field is taking aim at monopolies. From meatpacking to big tech, presidential contenders say market concentration is harming the economy. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-election/break-em-say-dems-why-2020-field-taking-aim-monopolies-n988876?cid=public-rss_20190330 202 comments politics
- Break up Facebook (and while we're at it, Google, Apple and Amazon) - Big tech has ushered in a second Gilded Age. We must relearn the lessons of the first, writes the former US labor secretary https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/20/facebook-google-antitrust-laws-gilded-age 1475 comments technology
- Google is accused of forcing smartphone makers to preinstall services could face another massive fine, growing global appetite to break up big tech, company may be forced to unbundle Android from its search, could be Google's Microsoft monopoly moment http://www.businessinsider.com/eu-going-to-fine-google-in-july-over-android-2018-6 8 comments technology
- Poland to fine social media companies that censor lawful speech. A new bill will prohibit Big Tech companies to remove content or block accounts if the content does not break Polish law. https://polandin.com/51388314/justice-minister-announces-online-freedom-of-speech-bill 500 comments europe