U.S. presidential candidates’ positions on breaking up Big Tech

As the U.S. Presidential race heats up, one of the platforms that they’re running on is virtually all of them have a plan to break up big tech companies such as Amazon, Apple, FaceBook, and others.

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Here’s a breakdown of what each candidate believe:

Joe Biden: Biden, who was vice president in the Silicon Valley-friendly Obama administration, has said that splitting up companies such as Facebook was “something we should take a really hard look at” but that it was “premature” to make a final judgment.

Bernie Sanders: Sanders, who frequently criticizes corporate influence, has also called for the breakup of big tech companies such as Facebook and Amazon.

Elizabeth Warren: She has called for legislation to restrict large tech platforms – which she would designate as “platform utilities” -from owning and participating in a marketplace at the same time. Under this law, Apple would not be allowed to both run the App Store and sell its own apps on it, for example.

You can read what the other candidates have said here.

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