New Senate bill would thwart Big Tech acquisitions

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A bipartisan Senate bill introduced Friday aims to make it more difficult for large tech companies to purchase potential rivals.

The “Platform Competition and Opportunity Act,” proposed by Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), would prevent large platforms from acquiring other businesses, unless the platforms proved that the proposed acquisition would not remove a competitor or potential competitor from the market.

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