Written Testimony of 

Morgan Harper

Director of Policy and Advocacy

American Economic Liberties Project

Before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights

For a Hearing on “Big Fixes for Big Tech”

April 1, 2025

Chair Lee, Ranking Member Booker, Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for holding this hearing and the opportunity to testify.

Here’s the thesis of my testimony. It is stark and bracing, but something the evidence supports. Big Tech firms have become too big to govern, and every day that goes by without curtailing their power to operate as private governments, presents a threat to our children, our economy, and our national security. These companies need to be broken up, and their leaders personally held accountable for the lawlessness they have unleashed on America.

I am the Director of Policy and Advocacy at the American Economic Liberties Project, a research and advocacy organization dedicated to addressing the problem of concentrated economic power across the economy to improve conditions for workers, honest businesses, and consumers. 

Since founding in 2020, we have made it our priority to investigate and draw attention to an industry marked by extraordinary economic and political power: Big Tech. These companies – including Google, Meta, Apple, and Amazon – have grown so large that their combined market cap now exceeds the GDP of most countries. And while their growth is laudable in some respects, these companies swiftly pulled the ladder up behind them to block others’ growth. This is not just a story about American innovation and success. Big Tech monopolies have grown so dominant, and engaged in conduct so destructive, that they now threaten to snuff out the spark of future tech innovation – including within their own companies. Engineers have no incentive to innovate or are bogged down by company bureaucracy, while managers are disincentivized from making disruptive improvements as they may devalue skills or relationships “that give them power.” 

After government and private lawsuits, multiple federal courts have found that Google in particular obtained its dominance by illegally maintaining a monopoly in various markets, from internet search to app distribution on Android phones. Under the first Trump and subsequent Biden Administrations, the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission brought additional monopolization cases against Meta, Apple, and Amazon.