The Antitrust Attack on Big Tech

The four major internet platforms – Google, Amazon, Apple, and Facebook – have in recent months been subjected to increasing attacks on antitrust grounds. These attacks have been generated by various entities in the federal legislature and by the threat of individual lawsuits, some by one of the platforms against another. The subject of these attacks is the sheer size of the platforms themselves, though it is also alleged that various of the platforms engage in unfair practices that benefit