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.”
過去幾周,要求政界人士和監管者遏制科技巨頭壟斷力量的壓力不斷加大。在9月12日的一場演講中,美國聯邦貿易委員會(Federal Trade Commission)代理主席莫琳?奧爾豪森(Maureen Ohlhausen)試圖給這一構想潑冷水。“考慮到技術驅動的創新為消費者帶來的明顯好處,”她說。“我對這方面的壓力感到擔憂,它將無視消費者的利益,而去追求其他、甚至可能相互沖突的目標。”