John Oliver exposes how Google and Amazon stifle competition

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And explains how Congress could shake up the industry

These measures would bar major tech companies from recommending their own services and requiring developers to exclusively sell their apps on a company’s app store. For example, AICO would ban Amazon from favoring its own private-label products over those from independent sellers. The Open App Markets Act would force Apple and Google to allow users to install third-party apps without using their app stores.

“These bills would crack the door open for innovation and budge the internet back towards what it was supposed to be from the start,” Oliver said. While Republicans and Democrats support the bills, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has yet to call them up for a vote. Earlier this year, Schumer promised to bring them up for “early Summer,” but nothing has been scheduled as Congress prepares to vote on a bipartisan gun control bill.

Activists, like Fight for the Future’s Evan Greer and Yelp’s senior vice president of public policy Luther Lowe, were thrilled over Oliver’s Sunday segment. “Stop what you’re doing and watch this,”

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