From: CIO DIVE
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Upon confirmation, Simons plans to turn the commission’s attention to Silicon Valley and take a look at tech giants like Google, Facebook and Amazon.
“I believe that big is not necessarily bad. I also believe that big is not necessarily good,” said Simons at the February confirmation hearing. “Companies that are already big and influential can sometimes use inappropriate means, anticompetitive means to get big or to stay big. If that’s the case, then we should be … vigorously enforcing the antitrust laws and attacking that conduct and prohibiting it.”
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