The bad boys of tech came to Capitol Hill to testify on Wednesday and by came I mean they logged on to WebEx

But they were wearing suits and ties and they swore an oath not to lie

Tim Apple

Mark Facebook

billionaire Bezos and

Sundar Google

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Here's your host Sean Rommas for them

Case in Newton you write about tech and democracy for the verge how big a deal were Wednesday's hearings nothing

Quite like this had ever happened before at the very least, yeah with the exception of the Microsoft

antitrust case in the late 90s we really haven't seen meaningful antitrust regulation in this country for 50 years

13 months ago the House Judiciary Committee and its antitrust subcommittee undertook an investigation into the market power of

Apple Amazon Facebook and Google and in the months since they have held five preliminary hearings

they've produced 1.3 million documents and

Wednesday we had the culmination of that this hearing where you had the CEOs of the big tech companies

facing real questions about how their companies have dominated the markets they're in for people who couldn't watch

What did the main event look like because none of these dudes actually showed up huh?

Well as you know Sean we have a global pandemic that's happening right now

Sure, and so rather than risk it all to appear before the antitrust subcommittee the CEOs dialed in on Cisco web acts and

appeared before an in-person hearing of

Many members of the antitrust subcommittee was kind of a hybrid some of the members of Congress were at their homes or offices and

Some were actually there in DC in the committee room and then

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