One July polling Politico’s report found that those who voted for the current president Joe Biden Benefit from the 2020 election Congress Crack down on large technology companies, not those that voted for the former president Donald Trump——He recently sued some of the most famous companies.
Opinion polls show that 23% of Biden voters strongly support Congress overseeing technology companies, compared with 28% of Trump voters. When investigating detailed polls around Biden voters, 30% of people believe that technology regulation is the top priority, while 40% believe that technology regulation is important, but the priority is low.
23% of Biden voters believe that technology regulation is not that important.
Other relevant issues in the polls include economics, safety, health care, medical insurance, social security, women’s issues, education and energy.
According to Politico, these polls were conducted online, and the data contained “target samples of registered voters based on age, gender, race, education, marital status, home ownership, presidential vote in 2020, and region.”
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On June 11, Congress introduced five bipartisan bills involving companies including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google.
The five bills include the “American Innovation and Choice Act”; the Platform Competition and Opportunity Act; the “Termination of Platform Monopoly Act”; the enhancement of compatibility and competitiveness through the ACCESS Act; and the “Consolidation Filing Fee Modernization Act.”
Each bill addresses issues such as discrimination against competitors, fair business practices and equal opportunities, to name a few.
“Currently, unregulated technology monopolies have too much power over our economy,” said David Cicillin, chairman of the House Antitrust Subcommittee, in a now-deleted press release. “They are in a unique position to pick winners and losers, destroy small businesses, increase consumer prices, and make people unemployed.”
Trump suspended Twitter And Facebook after the U.S. Capitol riots on January 6. In early July, Trump submitted a Class action Oppose Facebook, Twitter and Google, accuse these sites of infringing on his rights as a U.S. citizen and prohibit him from using their social media platforms.
Trump stated in an column in July Wall Street Journal He sued to “restore freedom of speech for myself and every American.”
“This coercion and coordination is unconstitutional,” Trump wrote. “This Supreme Court It is believed that Congress cannot use private actors to achieve what the Constitution prohibits it from doing on its own. In fact, Big Tech has been illegally represented as a review agency of the US government. Regardless of your political views, this should shock you. This is unacceptable, illegal and non-American. “
