The Big Tech hearings won’t lead to real change. That’s okay.
https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/7/29/21345856/big-tech-hearings-theater-amazon-apple-facebook-google
The heads of Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon are going to get grilled. But that won’t lead — directly — to regulation.
On Wednesday, four of the most powerful men in the world will answer pointed questions from US lawmakers who have real concerns about the massive tech companies these men lead. The big, overriding theme of the virtual antitrust hearing: Are Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple too powerful? So powerful that they should be broken up?