Big Tech Makes Inroads With the Biden Campaign

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Big Tech Makes Inroads With the Biden Campaign (Published 2020)

While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups.

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While Joe Biden has criticized the largest tech companies, his campaign and transition teams have welcomed allies of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple onto its staff and policy groups.

has alarmed an increasingly influential coalition of liberals who say the tech titans stifle competition, disregard user privacy and fail to adequately police hate speech and disinformation.

Today the tech giants are trying to fend off new regulations or antitrust lawsuits. The Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission have spent more than a year investigating Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple for possible violations of competition law. During a House hearing last month, lawmakers from both parties grilled the chief executives of all four companies

So Wall Street Financial have given him 41 million and now big tech is helping his campaign.

 

[sallybutler]

Just because you don’t like someone doesn’t mean you should include them in policy discussions. I wish both the House and Senate would try that instead of staying in their corners

 

[ThinkingSapien]

I felt like this line was trying to make an implication, but I dont know what it might be.

And a nearly 700-person volunteer group advising the campaign, the Innovation Policy Committee, includes at least eight people who work for Facebook, Amazon, Google and Apple

1.1% did not seam like a big number. Also, is there some view that having ever done any work for these companies in ones career is a disqualifying condition?

 

[ThinkingSapien]

Just because you don’t like someone doesn’t mean you should include them in policy discussions.

I got the impression that Apple and Trump are not aligned. But Tim Cook was a member of a Trump advisory board.