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Why Oscar favourite Nomadland has caused controversy
It s all to do with its Amazon scenes. 15/04/2021
Nomadland will finally arrive in the UK later this month on Disney+ Star and by that time, it could have landed the biggest movie prize around.
Chloé Zhao s drama has been dominating the awards circuit and is the frontrunner for Best Picture at the Oscars, with Zhao – whose next movie is Marvel s
Eternals– also the hot favourite for Best Director having triumphed at every other major award ceremony.
However,
Nomadland s success has come at a price, as with other recent award-winners, it s invited more scrutiny on the movie. As a result,
US Senator wants to ban all future acquisitions by Big Tech Facebook WhatsApp
In line with growing calls for antitrust regulation in the US, Republican Senator Josh Hawley has introduced legislation calling for the ban of all mergers and acquisitions by companies with a market cap of over $100 billion, presumably targeting Big Tech companies Microsoft, Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook.
Called the “Trust-Busting for the Twenty-First Century Act”, Hawley’s bill proposes overhauling century-old anti-trust and competition laws such as the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act. Hawley wants to clearly define the anti-competitive behaviour under the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) instead of getting bogged down by lawyers and economists.
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Sen. Hawley’s Bill to Break Up Big Corporations Praised and Panned on Right
A legislative reform proposed by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) to “crack down on mergers and acquisitions by mega-corporations and strengthen antitrust enforcement” is drawing mixed reviews from conservative analysts and Republican campaign strategists.
“A small group of woke mega-corporations control the products Americans can buy, the information Americans can receive, and the speech Americans can engage in,” Hawley said in a statement announcing the proposal.
“These monopoly powers control our speech, our economy, our country, and their control has only grown because Washington has aided and abetted their quest for endless power.