Sen. Warren proposes tech regulation, including breaking up big tech and rolling back acquisitions at Amazon, Google, and Facebook, as part of her 2020 bid
Silicon Valley is unimpressed VentureBeat : Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Facebook, and Google John Koetsier / Forbes : Why Apple Got Spared As Elizabeth Warren Targets Amazon, Facebook, Google For Breakup Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch : Venture investors and startup execs say they don't need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech Chris Davies / SlashGear : Elizabeth Warren reveals her big tech break-up plan Frank Konkel / Nextgov : Big Tech Claps Back at Warren's Proposal to Break Up Amazon, Google, Facebook Alex Wilhelm / Crunchbase News : Quick Notes On Elizabeth Warren's Tech-Focused Anti-Trust Doc Maria Deutscher / SiliconANGLE : In new regulatory plan, Elizabeth Warren proposes to break up tech giants Jason Del Rey / Recode : Amazon ousted thousands of merchants with no notice — showing the danger of relying on the shopping platform Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac : US senator Elizabeth Warren wants to break up tech companies, says Apple should not be able … Brian Deagon / Investor's Business Daily : Elizabeth Warren Plan: Break Off Tech Giants' Key Operations Sam Biddle / The Intercept : Elizabeth Warren's Big Tech Beatdown Will Spark a Vital and Unprecedented Debate Philip Elmer-DeWitt : Elizabeth Warren's big tech breakup plan spares Apple Allison Schiff / AdExchanger : Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wants To Force Google To Divest Its Ad Platforms Annie Gaus / TheStreet : Elizabeth Warren Proposes Plan to Break Up Big Firms Like Amazon and Facebook Mark Hachman / PCWorld : Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Amazon, Facebook, and Google and undo their acquisitions Andrew Orr / The Mac Observer : Senator Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break up Big Tech Joe Rice-Jones / KnowTechie : Elizabeth Warren wants to break up ‘Big Tech’ companies like Google and Facebook Todd Bishop / GeekWire : Bing zing: Presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren glad we're not all ‘stuck’ with Microsoft's search engine Jenn Gidman / Newser : Warren: Time to Bust Up Google, Amazon Communications and Technology Blog : Elizabeth Warren's Plan to Break Up Big Tech Jen Karner / Android Police : Warren campaign announces trust-busting plan for Google and other major tech companies Martin Giles / MIT Technology Review : Elizabeth Warren says it's time to break up Big Tech Kelsey Sutton / Adweek : Elizabeth Warren Proposes Breaking Up Big Tech Kiran Stacey / Financial Times : Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Google and Facebook James Titcomb / Telegraph : Elizabeth Warren calls for breakup of Facebook, Google and Amazon Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors : Presidential Candidate Elizabeth Warren's Plan to ‘Break Up’ Big Tech Companies Could Affect Apple's App Store Mike Snider / USA Today : Elizabeth Warren unveils plan to ‘break up big tech,’ including Amazon, Google, Facebook Joe Nocera / Bloomberg : Warren's Smart Tech Plan Shows Why She Should Stay in the Senate Ryan Broderick / BuzzFeed News : Here's Elizabeth Warren's Plan To Break Up Huge Tech Platforms Like Facebook, Google, And Amazon Andrew Wyrich / The Daily Dot : Elizabeth Warren takes aim at big tech: Amazon, Google, Facebook Paul Thurrott / Thurrott : Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Amazon, Facebook, and Google Michael K. Spencer / FutureSin : Why we Need to break up Amazon, Facebook and Alphabet Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Companies Like Apple, Amazon, and Facebook Larry Dignan / ZDNet : Warren proposes reversing big tech acquisitions and labeling Google, Amazon, Facebook ‘platform utilities’ Marrian Zhou / CNET : Sen. Elizabeth Warren calls to break up Amazon, Google, Facebook Shawn Knight / TechSpot : Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Amazon, Facebook and Google Abner Li / 9to5Google : Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren proposes breaking up Google, including Search, ads, & Waze Tony Romm / Washington Post : Does Elizabeth Warren's breakup plan for the tech giants mark the end of a political romance? The Seattle Times : Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveils plan to break up Amazon, Facebook and Google Swapna Krishna / Engadget : Elizabeth Warren pledges to break up Facebook, Google and Amazon Sayanti Chakraborty / Reuters : Democratic Senator Warren calls for regulations on big tech companies David McCabe / Axios : Elizabeth Warren proposes Big Tech breakup PYMNTS.com : US Sen Elizabeth Warren Pitches Plan To Break Up Tech Firms Erin Corbett / Fortune : Sen. Elizabeth Warren Wants to Break Up Big Tech Davis Richardson / Observer : Elizabeth Warren Wants to Split Amazon From Whole Foods to Save Capitalism MacDailyNews : Senator Elizabeth Warren pushes to break up big tech companies Google, Facebook, and Amazon; affect Apple's App Store Ben Mathis-Lilley / Slate : Elizabeth Warren Is Going to Keep Dumping Big and Interesting Ideas on You Friggin' Dolts Until You Pay Attention Tweets: Elizabeth Warren / @ewarren : Facebook, Amazon, and Google have vast power over our economy and democracy. They've bulldozed competition and tilted the playing field in their favor. Time to break up these companies so they don't have so much power over everyone else. #BreakUpBigTech http://medium.com/... Cullen Roche / @cullenroche : Warren says Amazon is a monopoly because it has a 50% share of e-commerce. E-commerce is 9.8% of retail sales so Amazon's “monopoly” is 4.9% of the market. ¯\_()_/¯ http://twitter.com/... Scott Galloway / @profgalloway : And so it begins... right. on. sister. https://www.cnn.com/... James Titcomb / @jamestitcomb : All these proposals about curbing big tech and the top highlight on Elizabeth Warren's medium post is a joke at Bing's expense https://medium.com/... pic.twitter.com/kWKwKB33Tm Elizabeth Warren / @ewarren : What I'm proposing is in line with our country's history of antitrust laws—and it's a big part of what has allowed our economy to grow and new companies to thrive. You can read more about how our plan is going to work here: http://medium.com/... @petepachal : You 3 fans of Apple Maps might want to pay attention to this. http://medium.com/... http://twitter.com/... Tucker Higgins / @tuckerhiggins : Elizabeth Warren team tells me the new policy would definitely apply to Apple — which is, at times, ranked as the largest company in the world. Apple would have to choose between running the App Store or offering their own apps, but not both. http://www.cnbc.com/... Karen Weise / @kyweise : Gotta think Microsoft prefers not being targeted by Warren vs the odd shade she is throwing: “Aren't we all glad that now we have the option of using Google instead of being stuck with Bing?” https://twitter.com/... Rick Gregory / @gbgrick : And Microsoft, Apple and Oracle. Elizabeth Warren vows to break up Amazon, Facebook and Google if elected president https://www.theguardian.com/ ... Hassaan / @hchoudry : Warren, pointing to the antitrust battle over Microsoft in the 1990s, said the companies must be broken up to stimulate competition in a monopolistic market. https://www.theverge.com/... @stucchio : LOL, Warren thinks that the antitrust lawsuit against Microsoft (1995-2001) is what allows us to use Google (founded 1998) instead of Bing (founded 2009). https://buff.ly/2EUb1hW I guess she's taking the “make shit up” page from the AOC playbook, but without being pretty? Captain Morgan / @captain_m0rgan3 : Wait, what? Elizabeth Warren pushes to break up big tech companies like Amazon. She claims Google, Amazon, Facebook, and even Apple or Microsoft (although not mentioned) stifle innovation? They're NOT perfect, but I hope Warren doesn't use tech. @CNBC https://www.cnbc.com/... Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : Warren's campaign confirmed to me that the Google/YouTube merger would also be reviewed under her plan to break up big tech. If this proposal is any indication, the road to 2020 is going to be a bumpy one for tech giants. http://www.wired.com/... Eriq Gardner / @eriqgardner : Elizabeth Warren doesn't mention Apple, but hard to see why such a proposal wouldn't implicate its iTunes and app stores https://medium.com/... pic.twitter.com/RwuqTj8iQE Laurent Miltgen / @kubernan : Venture investors and startup execs say they don't need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech https://tcrn.ch/2VM1cZ8 #Microsoft @cnbc : Sen. Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan Friday to break up massive technology companies such as Amazon and Facebook, the clearest proposal yet in the 2020 presidential race to limit the growth of Silicon Valley. http://www.cnbc.com/... Antonio García Martínez / @antoniogm : WOW. What a political shot across the corporate bow @ewarren put out today. Worth reading. Agree or not, reading this level of discourse from someone aspiring to the presidency (compared to the current occupant) is, shall we say, a real change of pace. https://medium.com/... @dhh : Warren's proposal to break up Big Tech is what Silicon Valley needs. They'll kick, scream, lobby. And then 10 years after it's done, they'll all laud its vision, as they count the proceeds from the next round of progress it'll enable. http://medium.com/... Laurie Voss / @seldo : I look forward to tech CEOs and VCs lining up to politely explain that they don't object to regulation but can't support Warren for {random reason selected by PR firm}. http://medium.com/... @slpng_giants : A few words about this: Not sure how this would play out, but no matter your political stripe, this would be inherently good. Every beef you have with these companies, and ours deals with the monetization of hate and harassment, would be solved with more competition. http://twitter.com/... Lina Khan / @linamkhan : These structural separations are a smart proposal & reflect a key principle we've traditionally applied to dominant firms in network industries /1 http://papers.ssrn.com/... http://twitter.com/... Alexei Oreskovic / @lexnfx : On a sum-of-the-parts basis, could forced divestiture of these Google businesses actually create more value? Hedge funds no doubt checking models right now. Elizabeth Warren wants to force Google to divest its acquisitions of Waze, Nest, and DoubleClick https://www.businessinsider.com/ ... Armando / @armandodkos : The platform utility is very smart - it already has important antecedents in antitrust jurisprudence. This looks like a well thought out plan. That said it needs universal applicability - a sort of HHI for tech. Will need some rigorous economic work to support. http://twitter.com/... Ian Sherr / @iansherr : If @SenWarren does nothing else, at least maybe she can push co's like Apple, Google and Facebook to be more consumer and competition friendly. Apple needs to let us change default iPhone apps. Google and FB need to stop giving so much user data to other co's even if we press ok http://twitter.com/... @dhh : Amazing leadership by @senwarren. Breaking up Big Tech is an essential component of getting out of the monopolistic and abusive relationship we've been forced into with technology. Didn't dare hope a major presidential candidate would pick this up, and now it's here. Jeff Roberts / @jeffjohnroberts : Hard to get worked up about Warren's plan given these primary poll numbers: Sanders: 26% Biden: 22% Harris: 10% Warren: 7% (And this is New Hampshire, next to her home state!) http://twitter.com/... Henry Gilbert / @henereyg : Nice to see the Overton Window shifting here. Can't imagine Beto or Harris saying this http://twitter.com/... Rebecca Ortenberg / @historein : Between this and AOC's comments about algorithms being racist, I'm beginning to think that progressive Dems have been reading and passing around Algorithms of Oppression, which gives me more hope than just about anything in this political climate. http://twitter.com/... Paul Ford / @ftrain : Looks like Microsoft open-sourced Calculator just in time. http://twitter.com/... Nilay Patel / @reckless : Honestly I bet everyone at Google votes for Warren now because full-scale antitrust breakup is probably the cleanest way to save face on the Nest chaos at this point Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Hard to break up WhatsApp, Instagram & Facebook if all their messaging apps have been integrated for privacy. http://twitter.com/... Greg Greene / @ggreeneva : Good proposal — not because it's necessarily practicable in its current form, but because it gives the discussion about tech the provocation it needs. http://twitter.com/... Russell Brandom / @russellbrandom : Warren would appoint regulators to split Instagram from Facebook, Whole Foods from Amazon, and (maybe the most aggressive) DoubleClick from Google. http://twitter.com/... Oliver Willis / @owillis : “and make twitter pay for it” http://twitter.com/... Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : The @ewarren plan to break up Google, Facebook, and Amazon is a long-time coming. She first spoke about these companies in 2016 at a New America Open Markets event. http://www.warren.senate.gov/ ... Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : The @ewarren plan to undo mergers and conflicts of interest is the *moderate* approach. Keep in mind the Sherman Act is not just a civil statute but a criminal one. Monopolization is a crime. Patrick Healy / @patrickhealynyt : NEWS: Elizabeth Warren is proposing a new regulatory plan that would break up big tech companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook and roll back acquisitions like Facebook's deals for WhatsApp and Instagram. http://www.nytimes.com/... Good Idea Dave / @davecoion : It would have been pretty funny for New York's leading lights in government and business to throw themselves at Amazon's feet, only for the company to get broken up six years into their NYC expansion http://twitter.com/... Nick Riccardi / @nickriccardi : Warren presenting a real test of how much D primary voters care about policy http://twitter.com/... Pete Harrison / @peteharrisonnyc : This should be on every candidate's platform. It's obvious that we need to break up tech giants for the health of our economy, politics, and society. I don't always agree w @ewarren but she is sincerely leading on this And in LONG ISLAND CITY no less! #NoAmazonNYC http://twitter.com/... Alyson Shontell / @ajs : Elizabeth Warren wants to “undo big mergers that never should have been approved” — potentially breaking Instagram and WhatsApp away from Facebook and Whole Foods from Amazon http://twitter.com/... Ben Green / @benzevgreen : Whatever ultimately happens to Warren's candidacy, she's putting together a great playbook of bold policy plans. http://twitter.com/... Roger McNamee / @moonalice : One of the oldest principles of fairness is the notion that a corp that operates a marketplace cannot also be a participant in the marketplace. Amazon & Google violate that notion in ways that harm consumers and the economy. Three cheers for Senator Warren for challenging them. http://twitter.com/... Donie O'Sullivan / @donie : Warren just outlined how she wants to turn Silicon Valley upside down. “Today's big tech companies have too much power—too much power over our economy, our society, and our democracy.” http://medium.com/... Tom Watson / @tomwatson : Warren has been the boldest candidate so far. This a big rock in the pond. Clearly aimed at pulling some of young left off the old man. Will it work? (Another test for the culture vs. policy question among progressives). http://twitter.com/... Thanks: @varun_mathur