[kictanet] The Reckoning - Regulating #BigTech

[Ali Hussein]

Washington is late to the party but its' implications can be global. This
will be interesting to watch.

William Barr, in his January confirmation hearings to become the U.S.
attorney general, entered into the lexicon a valuable, if redundant,
expression to describe the biggest technology companies in the land. “I
think a lot of people wonder how such huge behemoths that now exist in
Silicon Valley have taken shape under the nose of the antitrust enforcers,”
said Barr, an establishment Republican lawyer from central casting—and
therefore an unlikely antagonist for Big Business. His locution stuck,
heightening the sense that the “behemoths”—Facebook, Google
<http://fortune.com/fortune500/alphabet/>, Amazon
<http://fortune.com/fortune500/amazon-com/>, Microsoft, Apple
<http://fortune.com/fortune500/apple/>, and a hand­ful of less-gigantic
competitors—now face a greater regulatory threat than at any other time in
their relatively brief existence.

Read on:-

How Washington will tame #BigTech
<http://fortune.com/2019/02/25/silicon-valley-tech-washington-politics/?utm_source=fortune.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=data-sheet&utm_content=2019022514pm&eminfo={%22EMAIL%22:%22JNk2tZtaMbpzeF14StdA5NBLnI2w6xn%2B%22,%22BRAND%22:%22FO%22,%22CONTENT%22:%22Newsletter%22,%22UID%22:%22FO_DTA_27AFA3FB-F321-4344-807F-BDD2469CCFB2%22,%22SUBID%22:%2256937916%22,%22JOBID%22:%22941210%22,%22NEWSLETTER%22:%22DATA_SHEET%22,%22ZIP%22:%22%22,%22COUNTRY%22:%22%22}>

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