Dana Milbank: How did tech CEOs do on Capitol Hill? Google 'robber barons.'
Source: Washington Post
How did tech CEOs do on Capitol Hill? Google ‘robber barons.’
Opinion by
Dana Milbank
Columnist
7/29/2020, 8:10:13 p.m.
Want to know how Sundar Pichai handled himself during his testimony to Congress?
Google “controlled flight into terrain.”
Wondering what will happen to his company if it can’t come up with better answers for the multitude of anticompetitive abuses lawmakers have uncovered?
Google “Jeffrey Dahmer.”
At Wednesday’s much-anticipated hearing on technology monopolies before the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Apple’s Tim Cook all took their lumps. But the normally fractious panel united in a withering, bipartisan barrage against Pichai, the CEO of Google, accusing the company not just of antitrust violations but of theft, aid to the Chinese military, surveillance of Americans, killing off news publishers, lying to Congress and betraying the United States.
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