Opinion from recobbforazrep: Big Tech's lobbyists helped kill my bill to give Arizonans more choice and savings. But it has been revived. Congress, too, is tackling the issue.
, the Open App Markets Act, would – as the Arizona legislation would do – open the smartphone apps market to real competition.
These bills will harm consumers, they say, ignoring the fact that these bills would end Big Tech’s gatekeeping behavior that gives preference to their own products over competitors’ and uses non-public data – sometimes filched from the small businesses selling on their platforms – to herd shoppers in the direction of higher profits.
And small retailers find that platforms use manipulative design tactics to steer customers away from competitors’ offerings. Or, they just bleed small businesses dry: Amazon routinely squeezesAnd, they claim, these bills will harm our national security. But the exact opposite is true. Robust competition is what drives innovation, American’s bedrock strategic advantage.
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