U.S. President Joe Biden said in an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal that Democrats and Republicans need to come together to pass strong bipartisan legislation in order to hold major tech companies accountable.
U.S. President Joe Biden walks before boarding the Marine One helicopter to travel to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for the first lady Jill Biden to undergo Mohs surgery for skin cancer, from the White House in Washington, U.S., January 11, 2023. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernstthat Democrats and Republicans need to come together to pass strong bipartisan legislation in order to hold major tech companies accountable.
Most importantly, Biden said he wanted to see "serious federal protections for Americans' privacy," including putting limits on how much data like location, biometrics and health information can be collected. He also highlighted the specific risk to children. "We must hold social-media companies accountable for the experiment they are running on our children for profit," he wrote, citing young people's struggles with bullying, violence, trauma and mental health.
He also urged a reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to force tech companies to "take responsibility for the content they spread and the algorithms they use." Both Republicans and Democrats have spent much of the past several years probing different aspects of the tech sector, largely agreeing that there are problems with the power of Alphabet's
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