Community development NGO supports Senator Warren's call to break up tech companies

( March 8, 2019, 22:19 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The Institute for Local Self-Reliance issued a statement in support of Senator Elizabeth Warren's call to undo anticompetitive technology mergers and break up companies including Facebook, Google and Amazon. “Senator Warren’s proposal rightly recognizes that digital platforms have become the core infrastructure of our economy,” said Stacy Mitchell, co-director of ILSR and author of several reports and articles about Amazon’s market power. “If we’re going to restore competition and protect the free exchange of goods and ideas, then we cannot allow Amazon and other big tech companies to continue to use their control of this infrastructure to privilege their own goods and services at the expense of their competitors.”Statement follows in full:...

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Community development NGO supports Senator Warren's call to break up tech companies

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