Directing their ire at Silicon Valley has become one of the few areas where lawmakers from both parties find common ground. The House antitrust subcommittee investigating Silicon Valley has already received plenty of tips from workers at tech firms large and small according to its chair, representative David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island). “There’s a lot of information that we’ve been gathering that people have shared with the committee but haven’t done publicly because they’re fearful of economic retaliation,” Cicilline told WIRED. Cicilline’s subcommittee has been hosting hearings and roundtables on the state of competition in digital industries since the antitrust probe was announced on June 3. But the investigation ramped up last week when a bipartisan group of lawmakers on the House Judiciary Committee fired off letters to the CEOs of Amazon , Facebook , Alphabet , and Apple , requesting to see detailed internal documents and executive communications by October 14. The House isn’t alone in looking closely at tech’s Big Four. Earlier this month, 48 state attorneys general, along with Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia’s top law enforcement officials, teamed up to launch a sweeping antitrust investigation into Google; a smaller group led by New York […]
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