U.S. lawmakers propose three ways to resolve antitrust laws for Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook

Last summer, the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held a major hearing on the monopoly of large technology companies, including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg attended and gave testimony.

Today, the Anti-Monopoly Subcommittee convened a meeting again and revealed some of the contents of the meeting, saying that it would propose a bill aimed at reforming today’s large technology companies as early as this spring.

According to The Verge reports, the bill proposed later this spring will address three issues:

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Data interoperability and portability: Users should be able to take their data elsewhere with ease. Example: Think about how you can move your phone number between carriers. Before the 1996 Telecommunications Act, that wasn’t always an option!

Nondiscrimination: Basically, a dominant platform shouldn’t be able to preference its own products over those of its competitors.

Structural remedies: Breaking apart different lines of business or platforms under one company.

At present, the biggest impact of this bill is Apple, because Apple’s current App Store is a very closed and irreplaceable application installation channel in iOS. At the same time, it also forces developers to use Apple login, Apple Pay, and other own functions. Apple also pre-installed Apple Music, TV+, New+, and other applications with a wide range of similar competitors on the market.