BIG TECH TO CONGRESS: LISTEN TO TAYLOR SWIFT AND GO AFTER TICKETMASTER, NOT US

SILICON VALLEY DODGED a hail of congressional bullets through the last several months of 2022. A suite of antitrust legislation threatened to puncture the industry’s monopolistic business model, but the bills never left the upper chamber.

The legislative package represented the most advanced legislative threat to Big Tech since the industry’s birth. Several bills passed through the House of Representatives and others, sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee.

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