House Republicans Surrender To Big Tech
© Washington Examiner DOOSJE - In this September 24, 2019 file photo, a woman walks under a Google sign on the Mountain View, Calif., campus after Barack Obama and Joe Biden left the tech industry in the White House . Political fortunes have changed. Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple are under the scrutiny of Congress, federal regulators, state attorneys general and European authorities. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu, File)Republicans in the House of Representatives have already broken promises to fight big tech .
Despite saying they would hold Big Tech accountable in the midterm elections, Chairman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-OH) gave Google and Facebook this they wanted: an antitrust subcommittee without representatives. Ken Buck. (R-CO) as President.
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When Republican Oversight Committee Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) penned his 2021 McCarthy memo, “strengthening the Republican Party as a party of the working class” was a specific policy stance, holding Big Tech accountable for "anti-competitive practices". from banks. This builds trust with working class voters.
House Republicans decided to deliver on that promise by selecting Book to chair the Judiciary Committee's antitrust subcommittee. He has a history of fighting Big Tech and recently published a book, Crushed: Big Tech's War on Free Speech .
In it, Buck outlines three bipartisan legislative efforts he's likely to push into the antitrust subcommittee: the Open App Marketplace Act, which would prevent big tech companies from prioritizing their apps on their devices; the Digital Advertising Competition and Transparency Act, which would break Google's monopoly in the digital advertising market; And the Journalism Protection and Competition Act, which allows small media companies (including the Washington Examiner ) to join and enter into fair advertising deals with platforms like Google and Facebook.
Instead of allowing Jordan Buck, who took money from Google, to sit in this legislature, he appointed Rep. Thomas Massey (R-KY) as antitrust chair. Massey has his aces, but fighting Big Tech's anti-competitive behavior isn't one of them.
Buck's loss as antitrust chairman is a big win for Google and a loss for working-class voters who counted on House Republicans to hold Big Tech accountable.
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Main author: Conn Carroll
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