Nate Sutton, associate general counsel for competition at Amazon.com Inc., listens during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, July 16, 2019. U.S. technology giants are headed for their biggest antitrust showdown with Congress in 20 years as lawmakers and regulators demand to know whether companies like Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Facebook Inc. use their dominance to squelch innovation. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg
Amazon.com Inc was challenged by a top US House lawmaker over whether the online retail giant is harming competition as the biggest tech companies faced their harshest antitrust scrutiny in years on Capitol Hill.
Democratic Representative David Cicilline of Rhode Island, who chairs the House antitrust panel, put Amazon on the hot seat at a hearing July 16, suggesting its business model suffers from conflicts of interest and that it can use its control over data to thwart competition from third-party sellers on its platform.
