A senior lawmaker from Chancellor Olaf Scholz¡¯s Social Democrats railed against Elon Musk¡¯s interference in German politics and called for a new antitrust act to constrain his influence in the corporate world.
¡°Elon Musk¡¯s renewed provocations are more than irritating,¡± said Dirk Wiese, the deputy caucus leader of the Social Democratic Party in Germany¡¯s Bundestag. ¡°It¡¯s high time to push ahead with a modern version of the Sherman Antitrust Act,¡± he added, referring to the 1890 US law that banned monopolistic business practices.
A modern-day version would essentially lead to a break-up of Musk¡¯s increasingly ¡°monopolistic¡± conglomerate of companies, Wiese told Bloomberg News on Sunday.
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