{"id":36732,"date":"2021-06-22T18:42:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36732"},"modified":"2021-06-22T18:42:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T01:42:05","slug":"tech-industry-pushes-for-delay-in-antitrust-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=36732","title":{"rendered":"Tech industry pushes for delay in antitrust legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee is coming under pressure to hit the brakes on a legislative package targeting tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>Tech industry groups, the targeted companies and a group of moderate Democrats have called for additional time and hearings to weigh the five proposals before the panel moves ahead with Wednesday\u2019s scheduled markup.<\/p>\n<p>The bills target Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google and build off the investigation the House subcommittee conducted last year that led to a blockbuster report alleging abuse of market power by the companies, who have all\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ddsszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtpthtgd_vjgfhhpvpnfgvkkrffmp.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ddsszlgkjttfblbtfrcjjfssjgfwtgtnnmjkldwtpthtgd_vjgfhhpvpnfgvkkrffmp.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1624488511946000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGIDSMz1gH8Vk1eMomAp873LDIDVQ\">pushed back<\/a>\u00a0on the report\u2019s findings.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the industry is arguing that the legislation on tap for Wednesday could lead to \u201cunintended\u201d consequences and end up hindering consumers and small businesses that rely on their services.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Judiciary antitrust subcommittee is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36732","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=36732"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36733,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36732\/revisions\/36733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}