“We believe that restricting what apps you can run on your devices is a fundamental human right.”

- Tim Cook, probablyhttps://t.co/TOLYBe4IhB

— Kosta Eleftheriou (@keleftheriou) January 18, 2022

iMob: "If you break our monopoly, God forbid your privacy might...say... get harmed!" https://t.co/jKGOcTkJCW

— The Maverick of Wall Street (@TheMaverickWS) January 18, 2022

Apple Legal misleading Congress yet again in order to make their scare tactics more effective ?

Sideloading does *not* imply direct installation from the internet. It simply means that there is *some* method to install apps outside the App Store. https://t.co/SBqVyadFUf pic.twitter.com/0mLOwtt4vt

— Riles ?‍♂️ (@rileytestut) January 18, 2022

Google’s Chief Legal Officer Kent Walker similarly argued that the bills could make their products less secure by preventing Google from integrating automated security features or making it harder to detect security risks across products. https://t.co/G7i5JC0nrK

— Jennifer Elias (@jenn_elias) January 18, 2022

In this article, you’ll see the comments of people who work for career politicians saying companies can basically just “nerd harder” to address cybersecurity concerns.

Sorry, no. Armchair quarterbacking cybersecurity is unacceptable from our leaders. https://t.co/uFch8n9uoZ

— Patrick Hedger (@PatHedger18) January 19, 2022

That a private company, confronted for the first time with possible regulation, can issue such veiled threats - with a degree of credibility - to an entire society and the economy is in itself an unwitting admission of excessive market power. https://t.co/tnKPL6BTVS

— Christian D'Cunha (@BeterOpDeFiets) January 19, 2022

pls don’t do antitrust u might get hacked ??? https://t.co/2hCyjzg49k

— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) January 18, 2022

NEW: A historic coalition of 40+ small and medium sized tech companies have signed a letter in support of ⁦@amyklobuchar⁩/⁦@ChuckGrassley⁩’s bill to curb the most egregious self-dealing by Google/Apple/Amazon/Facebook https://t.co/oLue03rM6M

— Luther Lowe (@lutherlowe) January 18, 2022

Big Tech is taking advantage of the safetyism epidemic to rally opposition against antitrust action. If it could save one monopoly’s life… https://t.co/QeLupGI2dG

— Jon Schweppe ? (@JonSchweppe) January 18, 2022

Hello my name is Kent Walker I am an Activist I Care About Consumers

I don't have conflicts of interest

I'm just an exec at a monopoly that could be busted by antitrust

I collected a $50 million check from Monopoly in 2020 I rly have no stake in thishttps://t.co/0jXfSKEKwc

— jane chung (@orientaljanedoe) January 18, 2022

Goooooorgeous thread about poor baby internet company exec
❤️??? https://t.co/Yxfret2ljF

— Carrie Goldberg (@cagoldberglaw) January 19, 2022

this is hysterical bullshit https://t.co/gfZyQyosqY

— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) January 18, 2022

You were literally about to scan all of our pictures on our phones. $AAPL https://t.co/iKsqYEUsBX

— SBA (@SadBillAckman) January 18, 2022

Examples are lol. But seriously, some academics/commentators need to realise that idea that ‘security/CoMo isn’t possible’ in a less madly centralised world is ITSELF a symptom of GAFAM having zero incentive to either design or help us imagine how it *could* work. ? https://t.co/CpfADIQ3rV pic.twitter.com/507Xk3U9Cc

— Michael Veale (@mikarv) January 19, 2022

Checks out https://t.co/eBRAU0W6Z7

— Alex Kantrowitz (@Kantrowitz) January 19, 2022

this whole thread is hilarious.

"I'm also going to say other politically charged things to hide the fact I'm not saying anything" - kent

in one thread, jane eviscerates google's best arguments from a massive antitrust policy, legal, product, and comms team. scarlet for them. https://t.co/Pv375N1H1u

— William Fitzgerald (@william_fitz) January 18, 2022

Bill would "hurt competition" by... forcing them to allow competing App Stores.

(but I'm glad that they're interpreting it as allowing sideloading, that's going to make it that much harder to argue otherwise in court later)https://t.co/7OU0hZELwk

— Michael Love (@elkmovie) January 18, 2022

That's funny, a lot of are warning of harmful consequences to user privacy and security from Apple and Google. https://t.co/dwUcWghqzO

— Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) January 19, 2022

Google is saying that if Congress passes stronger antitrust rules for big tech then you could die.https://t.co/FE9JNqN7mW

— Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) January 18, 2022

Google exec warns that regulating Google will make Google's search function worse, which, lol https://t.co/2rYCgSeLmm pic.twitter.com/h7tIV290kL

— Tim Murphy (@timothypmurphy) January 18, 2022

pls don’t do antitrust u might die ??? https://t.co/gfZyQyosqY

— Edward Ongweso Jr (@bigblackjacobin) January 18, 2022

Tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee antitrust debate could change the future of app stores and more, and Apple & Google aren't happy. @aamirsidd94 summarizes both the Bills https://t.co/YqFWx5lVdG

— XDA (@xdadevelopers) January 19, 2022

Here's a wild stat. The $68.7B Microsoft-Activision deal would be larger than these combined:

— Facebook-WhatsApp ($19B)
— T-Mobile-Sprint ($26B)
— Amazon-Whole Foods ($13.7B)
— Apple-Beats ($3.2B)
— Google-Fitbit ($2.1B)
— Facebook-Instagram ($1B)https://t.co/GkaUca2q8U

— Cristiano Lima (@viaCristiano) January 19, 2022

The proposed $68.7 billion dollar acquisition, expected to close by June 2023 pending approval, would mark one of the biggest deals in the history of the acquisition-happy tech sector and make Microsoft the third-largest gaming company by revenue… https://t.co/F27l1z6EqG

— RR ?‍♀️ Edmonds! (@RRalstonAgile) January 19, 2022