SA: House antitrust panel's report urges tackling 'monopoly power' at four tech giants

SEEKING ALPHA reports:

The House antitrust subcommittee has released its report on Big Tech after a 16-month investigation, concluding that four tech giants ? Alphabet (GOOG, GOOGL), Amazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL), and Facebook (NASDAQ:FB) ? enjoy “monopoly power,” and that antitrust laws need changes that might result in business separations.

The near-450-page report features a swath of recommendations, including imposing structural separations, and prohibiting dominant platforms from entering adjacent business lines ? what subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline has called a “Glass-Steagall” law for the Internet. It ...