Thread by @thexyz

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 👇

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@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.

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More choice and less data-driven targeting and manipulation

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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

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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

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Read our blog on the topic here: thexyz.com/blog/small-tec…

Thanks to @gifcop for help with the GIFs

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