Advocates Urge House Judiciary Structural Remedies for Big Tech

Congress should force Amazon to divest its storage and shipping business to ensure the company isn’t abusing its dominance, more than 20 advocacy groups wrote the House Judiciary Committee Thursday. Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Open Markets Institute and Public Citizen signed the letter to Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, D-R.I., commending the recent hearing with Big Tech CEOs (see 2007290063). The groups suggested lawmakers consider structural separations and bright lines rules in its report to rein in the power of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google. Amazon and the Internet Association didn’t comment.