This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Break up Big Tech: confront and curtail the dominance of the tech giants.
The coming of Amazon, Facebook, Google and other tech monopolies has revolutionised our communication, commerce and the very operation of our democracy. However, with them, has come the disenfranchisement of our speech, monetisation of our data and the kneecapping of anyone they deem a threat.
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New, modern solutions to this dilemma must be drafted for the British people. If, as recent events in The U.S. have shown, these companies are willing and able to silence an elected leader in the most powerful office on Earth; then, they must be seen as a threat to the enfranchisement of the British people, and brought to heel.
100 years ago reformers opposed the mergers that led to oil and railroad monopolies with groundbreaking Anti-Trust laws. We must do the same in our time for Big Tech.
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