Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Tuesday, June 4th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, it looks like Washington is serious about going after big tech in a big way

Firefox blocks cookies why are developers trepidacious about that sign-in with Apple scheme

and why it's time we really need to talk about the YouTube

recommendation algorithm. Here's what you missed today in the world of

Tech. While the whole W.W. D.C. thing was happening yesterday, man, was there some news

happening on the Regulate the Tech Companies front? First, news dropped at the FTC had secured the rights to begin an antitrust

probe of Facebook. Seemingly a part of that whole divvying up the regulatory

business with the DOJ that we talked about yesterday.

Then news hit that the DOJ had secured jurisdiction to probe Apple.

So in the last few days rumors have it that between them the

FTC and DOJ might be preparing inquiries into Apple, Google, Facebook, and

Amazon. Now there's no guarantee that anything will come of this. It's

just that both of these regulatory bodies seem to be getting their ducks in a row to do something.

All of the companies I just mentioned saw their stocks hit significantly yesterday.

At one point yesterday, $137 billion had been wiped off the market values of the so-called Fang stocks.

And then, lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives announced a sweeping antitrust investigation of big tech

that will touch all of the just mentioned companies and could lead to, you know, CEO testimony,

depositions, more.

The probe announced Monday by Representative David Sickoline of Rhode Island, the leader

of the House's top antitrust subcommittee subcommittee is expected to be far-reaching

and comes at a moment when Democrats and Republicans find themselves in rare alignment on the idea

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