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Summary List PlacementDuring his speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Sunday, former President Donald Trump encouraged states to "punish" big tech if they "silence conservative voices." Trump spoke on the final day of CPAC in Orlando, Florida. It was his first public speech since leaving the White House last month. "All of the election integrity measures in the world will mean nothing...

Summary List PlacementThe Democrats winning the Georgia runoffs has big implications for Big Tech. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) is a part of US law that provides tech companies with two important protections. Firstly, it gives them the ability to decide how to moderate content on their own platforms. Secondly, it shields them from liability for what their users post. This...

Summary List PlacementVice President-elect Kamala Harris is no stranger to Silicon Valley. Before she was the senator from California, she was the state's attorney general. Before that, she was district attorney in San Francisco. When she heads to the White House in January, she will do so with more experience with Big Tech than probably anyone else ever elected to national office. For many,...

Summary List Placement   The EU is looking to give itself sweeping new powers to crack down on US tech giants, EU commissioner Thierry Breton revealed to The Financial Times in an interview Sunday. Breton told the FT the new powers the EU is seeking include punitive measures such as forcing tech companies to break off and sell their European operations should their market dominance grow...

The Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman broke down the broad disconnect between stock markets and the economy in a scathing New York Times op-ed article last week. In the article, titled "Stocks Are Soaring. So Is Misery," Krugman said investor optimism about Big Tech's profits would not go far, as people can't survive on "rosy projections." Using Apple's $2 trillion market valuation as an example,...

Mistrust of Big Tech is one of the few issues that has strong bi-partisan agreement. With the backdrop of last month's news that 50 state attorney's general had launched a probe into Google, the company's CEO Sundar Pichai wrote an op-ed for Fox Business News. Pichai argues that Google is a friend to small business, not a foe. His choice of publication is an...

In an SEC filing made public on Friday, Google's parent company Alphabet told investors that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has requested information about its past antitrust investigations.  "On August 30, 2019, Alphabet received a civil investigative demand from the DOJ requesting information and documents relating to our prior antitrust investigations in the United States and elsewhere," the SEC filing read. Earlier this summer,...