Most People Don't Like Giving Big Tech More Power, but They Rely on Its Services - Morning Consult

Most People Don't Like Giving Big Tech More Power, but They Rely on Its Services - Morning Consult

In the past year, calls to either break up large technology companies or investigate them for anticompetitive behavior have found a strong and persistent voice among Democratic presidential candidates, a group of bipartisan lawmakers and both federal and state regulators. Discussions about online privacy and breaking up Big Tech are even on the agenda for the CES conference, which starts Tuesday.

But a new Morning Consult survey finds that even those consumers who find the sector’s growing power an unacceptable exchange for the benefits it provides are also heavily reliant on those benefits, suggesting that that any regulatory action that takes them away could create a disruption that is likely to inconvenience these very consumers in a big way. 

In the survey, conducted Dec. 11-14, 2,200 U.S. adults across the nation were first asked if they believed that the benefits that some large tech companies provide to customers constitute an acceptable trade-off for giving more power to the industry and taking business away from smaller competitors. Sixty-five percent, or 1,429 people, said it wasn’t an acceptable trade-off, while 35 percent, or 771 people, said it was. 

Respondents were then asked if they agreed with a set of nine statements gauging both their opinion and dependence on online services provided by large tech companies of interest to regulators investigating Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., Alphabet Inc. and Apple Inc.

2020-01-07 05:01:42Z
https://morningconsult.com/2020/01/07/most-people-dont-like-giving-big-tech-more-power-but-they-rely-on-its-services/

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