something has to be done with him. i don t i don t know how we make that happen. there are antitrust, as i said, antitrust actions you can take. they had to pay a fee to the s.e.c. years ago. cambridge analytica, they broke a consent agreement. they were only made to pay $5 billion. they should have been made to pay $100 billion. next time they do anything like that, and we should hold them in contempt of those agreements and fine them whatever we can. i want to ask you about the biden agenda and what may happen this week, finally. they may, congress, pass the infrastructure bill. sounds like you re emphasizing may. for dramatic effect. it is something you may want to try on the tour tour. listen, it may get through. they may pass the infrastructure
maria: welcome back. big tech is back in the spotlight as the justice department said it is working with the group of state general on a trust investigation. tech giants like google and facebook. is all of the scrutiny justifie justified? what do you think? great to see you. this is a hugely expanding issue. we have different parts of the united states federal and state governments looking into what apple, amazon, facebook, and google are doing. this comes on the heels of them investigating these antitrust actions. it s so important that we do this to protect consumers. maria: looked, the competition is slim when you look at competitors. google has, what, 80% of market share? yeah, that s the funny thing. i mean, you look at it. there s really no feasible alternative to facebook. if you are on social media, you
initial call during the g. twenty for multilateral global regulation because in fact that is the kind of regulation that is going to be most effective for these globally active companies and that s why germany has also been very supportive of the e.u. efforts we ve seen some major european union antitrust actions against the big tech giants from silicon valley and we have also now today seen a new e.u. proposal to tax those very same companies would not hit startups but only the really big the gaffa the googles the amazons the face books but would try to to write an imbalance in taxation the e.u. saying that the tech giants pay only a fraction of the taxes paid by conventional companies and that they want to start working with the system that will impute revenue to these big tech companies where they actually are active even if they can. and the revenues being built somewhere else you know which is revolutionary particularly when it comes to the world of of