{"id":7093,"date":"2021-06-18T09:14:24","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T13:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7093"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:51:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:51:23","slug":"u-s-house-panel-will-vote-next-week-on-big-tech-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/u-s-house-panel-will-vote-next-week-on-big-tech-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. House Panel Will Vote Next Week On Big Tech Bills"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The United States House Judiciary Committee will vote on Wednesday on a package of six antitrust laws, some of which target the market power of big tech companies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While two of these bills will address the problem of giant companies such as Amazon and Alphabet Inc, Google&#8217;s parent company, the third bill will require a platform that refrains from any merger unless it can show that the merged entity does not compete with a product or service in which the platform is located.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth bill will ensure that users can transfer their data elsewhere, including to a competing company, while the fifth will help to increase the budgets of antitrust watchdogs while ensuring that companies planning the largest mergers pay more.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/us-house-panel-vote-wednesday-bills-targeting-big-tech-2021-06-18\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House Pane; will vote on six antitrust laws, some of which target the big tech companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-public-sector"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7146,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}