Name: 蘋果、谷歌、Facebook和亞馬遜聽證會：你需要知道的事 (Apple, Google, Facebook & Amazon hearing: what you need to know)
Uploaded: 2020-10-23T18:41:13.000Z
Duration: 8 min 49 s

- [Kelly] On Wednesday, lawmakers squared off

- [凱利]週三，立法者們對峙著。

with the chief executives of the tech industries

亞馬遜的傑夫-貝佐斯、蘋果的蒂姆-庫克。

Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, and Google Sundar Pichai.

Facebook的馬克-扎克伯格（Mark Zuckerberg）和谷歌的桑達爾-皮查伊（Sundar Pichai）。

Since last June, the house judiciary committee

自去年6月以來，眾議院司法委員會

has been engaged in a sweeping investigation

These companies have been consolidating power

and now, Congress is getting ready to do something about it.

而現在，國會正準備做點什麼。

- Open markets are predicated on the idea

that if a company harms people, consumers, workers,

如果一個公司傷害了人、消費者、工人。

and business partners will choose another option.

和商業夥伴會選擇另一種方案。

We're here today because that choice is no longer possible.

我們今天在這裡，是因為這種選擇已經不可能了。

antitrust experts have been building the case

against big techs questionable acquisitions,

predatory pricing, and copycat behaviors.

The CEO's had to face those arguments head-on on Wednesday.

CEO們不得不在週三直面這些爭論。

- Amazon runs the largest online marketplace in America,

- 亞馬遜經營著美國最大的在線市場。

capturing 70% of all online marketplace sales.

佔據了所有在線市場銷售額的70%。

Facebook continues to enjoy booming profits,

Facebook繼續享受著蓬勃的利潤。

Google is the world's largest online search engine,

谷歌是全球最大的在線搜索引擎。

capturing more than 90% of searches online.

- [Kelly] These are four very different companies,

but the committee use Wednesday's hearing

In particular, the committee looked at how

以及他們如何利用其市場支配地位

- We used to have a policy that restricted competitors

- 我們以前有一個政策，限制競爭對手

- 好吧，扎克伯格先生，這些例子

and supporting documents strongly suggests

- Is it true that Amazon refers to third party sellers

- 亞馬遜所說的第三方賣家是真的嗎？

- We've interviewed many small businesses

and they use the words like bullying, fear and panic

他們用欺負、恐懼、驚恐等字眼來形容。

to describe their relationship with Amazon.

- [Kelly] The committee argued that companies

but when it comes to their app stores and marketplaces.

但當涉及到他們的應用商店和市場。

as to whether an app is made available to app users

至於應用程序是否提供給應用程序用戶。

- 如果是原生應用？是的，先生。

we've heard concerns that rules governing

They are upper trevally interpreted and enforced,

and are subject to change whenever Apple sees fit to change.

並可在蘋果公司認為合適的時候進行更改。

Mr. Cook, does Apple not treat all app developers equally?

庫克先生，蘋果是不是對所有的應用開發者一視同仁？

- Sir, we treat every developer the same,

- 先生，我們對每個開發商都一視同仁。

We do look at every app before it goes on,

我們確實會在每一個應用上線之前，都會對其進行考察。

but those rules apply evenly to everyone.

但這些規則對每個人都是平等適用的。

Throughout the hearing, lawmakers argue that

each company has used its dominance in the tech industry

每家公司都利用其在科技行業的主導地位。

to keep a watchful eye on their competitors.

Google face tough questions from lawmakers

擔心其在搜索方面的主導地位的人

allows it to monitor the web traffic of competitors.

使其可以監控競爭對手的網絡流量。

This information could result in the company

ranking competitors lower in search results.

將競爭對手在搜索結果中的排名降低。

- In 2010, Google stole restaurant reviews from Yelp

- 2010年，谷歌搶走了Yelp的餐廳評價

to bootstrap its own rival local search business.

來引導自己的競爭對手在地搜索業務。

- Mr. Pichai, do you know how Google responded

- 皮查伊先生，你知道谷歌是如何迴應的嗎？

when Yelp asked you to stop stealing their reviews?

當Yelp要求你停止竊取他們的評論時?

our investigation shows that Google's response

In other words, the choice Google gave you up was,

換句話說，谷歌給你的選擇是。

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