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Big news: Big Tech has finally met their match.

Last week, the European Union finalized the Digital Markets Act—showing the world it’s possible to take on Big Tech’s army of lobbyists and win .

The Digital Markets Act will fundamentally overhaul competition rules in digital markets, crack down on the most egregious behavior gatekeepers deploy to entrench their dominance, and clear the way for more innovation and greater consumer choice.

It may seem like complex policy, but these are a few concrete ways the Digital Markets Act will rein in Big Tech and help consumers like you and me:

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Restricting
Big
Tech
from
combining
personal
data
from
different
services
like
YouTube,
Gmail,
and
Google
Maps
without
explicit
user
consent.
*
*
Prohibiting
companies
like
Google
and
Amazon
from
elevating
their
own
products
in
search
results
–
known
as
self-preferencing.
*
*
Ending
Apple
and
Google’s
duopoly
on
app
stores,
which
has
allowed
them
to
fleece
small
developers
and
kneecap
competitors.
*
*
Stopping
companies
like
Apple
and
Google
from
defaulting
users
of
their
devices
into
all
of
their
own
services,
requiring
choice
screens
for
features
like
browsers
and
search
engines.

The European Union has shown us that it’s possible to stand up to Big Tech. Now, it’s time for Congress to pass its own historic bipartisan legislation to rein in Big Tech’s abuses of monopoly power—putting an end to their self-preferencing and app store monopolies.

We need you to contact your Senators and urge them to support historic bipartisan legislation — the American Innovation and Choice Online Act and Open Markets App Act — to rein in Big Tech:

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Every email, every call, and every tweet can make a difference here in convincing Congress to take action to rein in Big Tech. If U.S. lawmakers don’t step up and pass bold legislation of our own, the rules of the digital economy will be written without us.

Appreciate your support,

Nicole

Nicole Gill
Co-founder & Executive Director
Accountable Tech

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