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The US House Judiciary Subcommittee is conducting a hearing on US big tech discrimination by Europe and others, with witnesses saying that the regulations popping up harm the global economy and stifle innovation.

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The hearing is being held in the House Judiciary Committee’s main building — image credit: House Judiciary Committee

The White House has previously said that it will not tolerate the European Union’s fining firms such as Apple and Meta. Then on Monday, the US paused its agreed $200 billion technology deal with the UK, as it presses for more concessions.

At 10 AM on December 16, the US House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust began a hearing on how foreign nations target American firms. It is ostensibly a hearing to “examine the threat that discriminatory foreign regulations… pose to American innovation and competition.”

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