{"id":16705,"date":"2019-05-03T20:16:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-04T03:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16705"},"modified":"2019-05-03T20:16:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-04T03:16:22","slug":"ocasio-cortez-backs-warren-plan-to-break-up-tech-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=16705","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez backs Warren plan to break up tech giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is backing 2020 presidential contender Sen. Elizabeth Warren&#8217;s (D-Mass.) plan to break up big tech companies.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The idea itself is something that I am supportive of because taking an antitrust approach I believe is absolutely relevant and it&#8217;s appropriate to take,&#8221; the progressive House freshman said in an interview with Politico this week.<\/p>\n<p>Warren&#8217;s proposal would break up companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon, targeting firms that both own an online platform and participate in its marketplace. Ocasio-Cortez echoed criticisms of such arrangements, arguing that in the case of Amazon, its role as &#8220;both the marketplace, producer, seller &#8230; creates an antitrust issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Democrat was an outspoken critic of Amazon&#8217;s plans to open a headquarters near her district in Queens, N.Y. And last month, she announced she had quit Facebook and called social media a &#8220;public health risk.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is backing&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16706,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16705\/revisions\/16706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}