Pressure has been growing in the past few weeks for politicians and regulators to clamp down on the monopoly power of Big Tech. In a speech given in Washington DC on September 12, Maureen Ohlhausen, the acting chair of the Federal Trade Commission in the US, tried to pour cold water on the idea. “Given the clear consumer benefits of technology-driven innovation,” she said. “I am concerned about the push to adopt an approach that will disregard consumer benefits in the pursuit of other, perhaps even conflicting, goals.”
过去几周,要求政界人士和监管者遏制科技巨头垄断力量的压力不断加大。在9月12日的一场演讲中,美国联邦贸易委员会(Federal Trade Commission)代理主席莫琳•奥尔豪森(Maureen Ohlhausen)试图给这一构想泼冷水。“考虑到技术驱动的创新为消费者带来的明显好处,”她说。“我对这方面的压力感到担忧,它将无视消费者的利益,而去追求其他、甚至可能相互冲突的目标。”