DuckDuckGo, Mozilla and others support Klobuchar bill in rein in big tech

A group of 13 companies urged the US Congress to approve a bill that would rein in giant tech companies like Alphabet’s Google and Meta’s Facebook.

DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, Proton and other companies that advertise themselves as pro-privacy expressed support for a bill to ban self-preferencing by Big Tech platforms like Google and Amazon.com.

A US congressional leader on antitrust, Senator Amy Klobuchar, has spent much of the summer urging the Senate to pass the bill to no avail. Klobuchar, a lead sponsor along with Republican Chuck Grassley, has said she has the 60 votes needed for passage but prospects of it becoming law this year appear to be dimming.