Has anyone brought up the fact that the vice chair of the House Antitrust Subcommittee takes direct campaign contributions from Google, Microsoft and Amazon?pic.twitter.com/uYTHXse8EQ
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Hank Johnson gets campaign donations from Microsoft, Google and Amazonpic.twitter.com/vaxw7HoIQW
On the other side of the aisle, Antitrust Subcommittee member Ken Buck gets money from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. (source for all of these is the FEC website)pic.twitter.com/8vVtnE6rnb
Matt Gaetz got big checks from Google, Microsoft and Amazon for his 2018 race, though they have yet to contribute in 2020. So he'll be on his best behavior!pic.twitter.com/dMocvoqpuu
Kelly Armstrong gets the most love from Microsoft, who are not on the stand today, but also receives money from Facebook and Amazonpic.twitter.com/3ltgx0oHva
And finally, Greg Steube takes money from Microsoft, Google and Amazon. So there's your antitrust hearing—a bunch of politicians interviewing a panel of their most generous donors (with the notable exception of Apple, who do not have a PAC). The corruption is admirably bipartisanpic.twitter.com/acFDf5W265
Note that all of these politicians also give an enormous amount *back* to Google and Facebook, in the form of campaign advertising, and that because of the very monopoly they are supposedly investigating, they are utterly dependent on their continued good graces
narrator: they're not
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