U.S. lawmakers are likely to introduce legislation to restrain the market power of Amazon.com Inc., Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. and Alphabet Inc.’s Google LLC unit as early as September but whether a bill would pass by the end of 2020 is unclear, experts say.
Franklin Turner, an attorney with McCarter & English LLP who represents clients including multinational companies, said he was not “terribly surprised” that Bezos was unable to say unequivocally that a particular policy had not been violated. “That said, it would obviously be something that is certainly troubling, and I would expect the company to carefully look at any credible allegations,” he said.