To Rep. Zoe Lofgren, Rep. Eric Swalwell, Rep. Lou Correa and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer,

I am extremely disappointed that you are protecting the power of Big Tech companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon. I expected you to support reining in the excessive influence of these companies by supporting the legislation that went before the House Judiciary Committee on June 23rd. Instead, you seem content to let tech companies continue practices that harm consumers, workers, and our very democracy.

I refuse to accept the idea that Big Tech monopolies could buy the votes of our policymakers with their donations. But what other reason would there be for you turning against legislation that would allow consumers to more easily protect their privacy and switch from an online platform like Facebook to a competitor whose policies do not facilitated hatred and disinformation?

I urge you to listen to your constituents rather than to Big Tech lobbyists. As Chris Hughes, co-founder of Facebook, wrote in a New York Times op-ed entitled It’s Time to Break Up Facebook, there needs to be a check on these companies’ power. The American government needs to reign in Facebook and other Big Tech monopolies and make them more accountable to the American people.