A package of five anti-trust bills were introduced into the U.S. House on June 11 by various combinations of Members, all aimed at blocking any further acquisitions by Amazon, Alphabet (Google), Apple, Facebook and Microsoft of apps and other Internet businesses. The bills do not, however, legislate the breakup of these tech giants, each of which has bought up scores to hundreds of such businesses which might have competed with them, and all of which are infested with Internet surveillance and censorship task forces interlocked with the NATO and U.S. intelligence agencies. The bills would not, however, involve any action against censorship of free speech by the tech monopolies.
Two of the bills would prevent Amazon and Apple from offering their own goods for sale on the dominant Internet sales platforms they own, and through which they acquire extensive business secrets of other sellers. For example, Amazon’s own label comprises 158,000 products sold on its Internet marketplace.
