The event was held, ironically, inside the heart of big tech at the Amazon Meeting Center. There’s a simple reason companies like Amazon, Google and Facebook can get away with making their platforms worse on purpose, Doctorow said: market power. Doctorow described how companies like Facebook systematically neutralized competitors like Instagram by buying them and shutting them down or making them worse. Breaking up big tech companies seems to garner bipartisan interest: The Trump administration has continued lawsuits against big tech filed by the FTC and Justice Department under the Biden administration. It quickly shot to the top 10 in the app store, but the tech companies agreed to shut it down.