© Provided by the Washington Examiner FILE : In this September 24, 2019 photo, a woman walks past a Google sign on campus in Mountain View, California. Since Barack Obama and Joe Biden left the White House, the political tech industry's fortunes have changed. Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple have come under fire from Congress, federal regulators, prosecutors and European authorities. (AP Photo/Jeff Chew, archive)House Republicans have already broken their promise to take on Big Tech.
Despite saying during the midterms that they would hold Big Tech to account, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) gave both Google and Facebook what they wanted. Antitrust Subcommittee without Rep. Ken Buck. R-CO) as President.
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When Republican House Select Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) wrote McCarthy's 2021 memo, "Activating the Republican Party as the Party of the Working Class," Banks exposed the fact that "big tech" was responsible for "anti-competitive practices." as a field of politics. . It would build confidence among working-class voters.
House Republicans have pledged to make good on that promise by naming Pack chairman of the Judiciary Committee's Antitrust Subcommittee. He has a great track record of battling big tech and has just published a book called Crushed. The war of major technology companies on freedom of expression .
In it, Buck outlined three bipartisan legislative efforts he could push through the antitrust committee: The Open App Markets Act, which bars big tech companies from prioritizing their apps on their platforms. the Digital Advertising Competition and Transparency Act, which would break Google's monopoly on the digital advertising market; and the Competition and Press Protection Act, which allows small media companies (including the Washington Examiner ) to affiliate with platforms like Google and Facebook and strike fair advertising deals.
Rather than allow Buck to work on that legislative agenda, Jordan, who has taken money from Google, has appointed Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) to head the cartel. Macy's has strengths, but taking on Big Tech's competitive behavior isn't one of them.
Losing Buck as head of the cartel is a huge win for Google and a loss for working-class voters who trust House Republicans to hold big tech companies to account.
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Original author: Con Carroll
actual situation. House Republicans are giving in to Big Tech
