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Something has to be done with him. i dont -- i dont 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 agend...

>> 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 investigatin...

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 thats why germany has also been very supportive of the e.u. efforts weve 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 gaf...