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高三英语培优外刊阅读 班级：学号：姓名： 外刊精选I全球将迎来科技巨头监管时代？ 近几个月来，互联网巨头们的口子似乎不太好过：阿里巴巴被开出巨额反垄断罚单，美 团也因涉嫌垄断行为被立案调杳。全球范围内，对大型科技公司实行监管更是大势所趋。科 技巨头为何会从神坛坠落？监管行为又会给它们带来怎样的影响？ A Global Tipping Point for Reining In Tech Has ArrivedBy Paul Mozur, Cecilia Kang, Adam Satariano and David McCabe Around the world, governments are moving simultaneously to limit the power of lech companies with an urgency and breadth that no single industry had experienced before. “It is unprecedented to see this kind of parallel struggle globally, said Daniel Crane, a law professor at the University of Michigan and an antitrust expert. American trustbusting of steel, oil and railroad companies in the I9(h century was more confined, he said, as was the regulatory response to the 2008 financial crisis. Underlying all of the disputes is a common thread: power. The 10 largest tech firms, which have become gatekeepers in commerce, finance, entertainment and communications, now have a combined market capitalization of more than $10 trillion. In gross domestic product terms, that would rank them as the worlds third-largest economy. Tech companies are fighting back. Amazon and Facebook have created their own entities to adjudicate conflicts over speech and to police their sites. In the United States and in the European Union, (he companies have spent heavily on lobbying. While a tech backlash has gathered momenium fbr years, it escalated in December. Thal was when regulators and lawmakers globally made a scries of announcements on two main paths of attack against the industry: antitrust and content moderation. 【词汇过关】请写出下面文单词在文章中的中文意思。 .simultaneously [, si tel niaslil adv. .urgency [ 3 : dj ansi] n. .breadth [bredO, bretO] n. .unprecedented [a n presi denti d] adj. .trustbusting n. .confine [kon fal n] v. .as [ez, M conj. .underlie [, a nda lai ] v. .gatckccpcr [ gel t, ki： ps] n. .adjudicate [o(J3 u： di kei t] v. U.lobby [ ID bi] v. .momentum [mo mentom] n. .escalate [ eskolei t] v. 【词块学习】请从文章中找到下面中文相对应的文词块。 .临界点，转折点.限制，