As a privacy-focused company, we support the AICOA.
What is The American Innovation and Choice Online Act?
This thread aims to provide a simple explanation 👇#AntitrustVoteNow @SenSchumer pic.twitter.com/lgjCK9u8fx
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
Big tech is not a fan of the legislation.
Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and have poured US$95 million into efforts to discredit these bills.#AntitrustVoteNow @SenSchumer pic.twitter.com/7JT1rQAzwL
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
More choice and less data-driven targeting and manipulation#AntitrustVoteNow @SenSchumer pic.twitter.com/JlEkwOtmJD
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
The legislation only applies if a company has a certain size or global reach: a market cap of at least $550 billion in the last 12 months or at least 1 billion global users.#BigTech pic.twitter.com/Cylb3jWIAV
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
How will the antitrust bill affect online services?
Well, you may finally be allowed to uninstall the default app.#AntiTrustSummer pic.twitter.com/NmyalJIQfp
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
It will also remove dark patterns from the sign-up process#AntitrustVoteNow @SenSchumer pic.twitter.com/9uQbZFPcB1
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act will result in more choices for people and better pricing pic.twitter.com/wtIlnwJsjS
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
Out of the top 6 search results for the term "email" 4 relate to Gmail. Which leads many people to believe, that Gmail is Email. pic.twitter.com/ZyG5oaHw2n
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
Tech giants will no longer be allowed to block alternative services
As like how @microsoft has blocked @thexyz https://t.co/0nZYKBMXuT
(they eventually unblocked @TutanotaTeam, why not us?) pic.twitter.com/xvM8b2E1oU
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
Apple would not be able to make things difficult for people and environmentally unfriendly for the planet pic.twitter.com/97cHKOwU5k
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
An end to paying a subscription to unlock features you already have#AntitrustVoteNow @SenSchumer pic.twitter.com/PMIe7WA2GS
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
Read our blog on the topic here: https://t.co/XLPQlXeGob
Thanks to @GIFCOP for help with the GIFs@threadreaderapp unroll
— Thexyz (@thexyz) September 14, 2022
Guten Tag, here is your unroll: https://t.co/sbIgIVhuSP See you soon. 🤖
— Thread Reader App (@threadreaderapp) September 14, 2022
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