To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: I have written recently about the crashing tsunami of change in legal attitudes toward the largest U.S. data, technology and internet companies, especially in the antitrust realm. As we consider whether GAFA critic Tim Wu will keep a seat warm in the White House waiting for an FTC spot to open, we should examine the other ways that Big Tech is morphing from the belle of American business to the beast that all wish to tame. The Europeans have targeting this group for many years now, issuing historically huge fines against them and even changing the privacy laws in part to make attacks on Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon easier and more consequential. But here in the U.S. since the end of the last government anti-trust action against Microsoft in the early ‘aughts, these companies had been free to operate as they pleased and grow to any size they liked by any means they chose. But now, a new wave of antitrust suits, attacks on decades-old legal protections, new theories from the states, and antitrust energy in the new Senate leadership all demonstrate that big tech is clearly in the cross-hairs of U.S. regulators and legislators.