Many of the Democratic presidential candidates have argued in favor of either breaking up or tightening regulation of tech titans such as Facebook, Google and Amazon. Here are some of the candidates’ positions
Republican President Donald Trump’s administration has also stepped up its scrutiny, announcing a wide-ranging investigation in July into whether major digital tech companies engaged in anti-competitive practices.
Trump and other Republicans have also criticized social media companies, without evidence, for alleged political bias. The campaign told Reuters that, as president, Biden would aggressively use “all the tools available - including utilizing antitrust measures” to ensure corporations act responsibly. Under this law, Apple would not be allowed to both run the App Store and sell its own apps on it, for example.
His administration would “absolutely” try to split apart the companies, Sanders said at a Washington Post event in July. The mayor from South Bend, Indiana, said that the break-up of big tech companies is a “remedy that should be on the table,” but also said it was not a politician’s place to designate which companies should be broken up.
In Congress, Harris, along with fellow candidate Senator Amy Klobuchar, introduced the bipartisan ENOUGH Act in 2017 to protect against online exploitation of private images. She is also one of the authors of the bipartisan Honest Ads Act, which would require social media platforms to disclose the purchaser of a political ad, as is required for television and print ads.Yang, the former CEO of a start-up, has benefited from a surge of grassroots supporters on social media who style themselves as the #yanggang.
When questioned at the October Democratic debate on the issue, Booker advocated reforms to stop tech companies being used “to undermine our democracy” around elections.A Stanford University graduate who co-founded his own social media start-up WayWire, Booker has historically received donations from major Silicon Valley names such as Zuckerberg. The Facebook CEO also donated $100 million to Newark schools when Booker was mayor of the New Jersey city.O’Rourke, a former U.S.
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