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
@SenSchumer 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
More choice and less data-driven targeting and manipulation
#AntitrustVoteNow @SenSchumer
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
How will the antitrust bill affect online services?
Well, you may finally be allowed to uninstall the default app.
#AntiTrustSummer
It will also remove dark patterns from the sign-up process
#AntitrustVoteNow @SenSchumer
The American Innovation and Choice Online Act will result in more choices for people and better pricing
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.
Tech giants will no longer be allowed to block alternative services
As like how @Microsoft has blocked @thexyz
thexyz.com/account/announ…
(they eventually unblocked @TutanotaTeam, why not us?)
Apple would not be able to make things difficult for people and environmentally unfriendly for the planet
An end to paying a subscription to unlock features you already have
#AntitrustVoteNow @SenSchumer
Read our blog on the topic here: thexyz.com/blog/small-tec…
Thanks to @gifcop for help with the GIFs
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