Author: NIHAL KRISHAN Washington Examiner

Republican Rep. Ken Buck of Colorado has transformed himself from a free-market evangelist to a crusader against tech monopolies. Buck, the top Republican on the powerful House antitrust subcommittee, has played a key role in forging a bipartisan agreement in Congress that would rein in Big Tech companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, and Apple.…

Dell has stopped shipping certain highly energy-intensive gaming computers to customers in six states with new electricity consumption regulations. The PC giant won’t ship certain computer models to California, Colorado, Hawaii, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington because of the states adopting the California Energy Commission’s new Tier II mandatory energy efficiency standards on computers and mobile…

The White House said Tuesday it is considering ways to change a controversial law that gives Big Tech companies legal immunity in order to hold them accountable for problematic content on social media platforms. The Biden administration is looking for ways to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a provision that protects social…

Big Tech companies such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon collect personal user data from many different sources to create “secret identities” of people in order to understand users’ personality traits, predict purchasing behavior, and ultimately sell these profiles to advertisers and sometimes the government. Most often, users don’t even realize that their data is being…

Members of both parties in Congress will reintroduce legislation Wednesday that will help news organizations to band together to negotiate with large online platforms such as Google and Facebook for better compensation for their content. House Antitrust Subcommittee Chairman David Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, and ranking member Ken Buck, a Republican from Colorado,…

Senate Democrats are split on new legislation that could force tech companies to censor online ads in the hopes of curbing misinformation and fraudulent claims. The bill is part of an effort to reform legal protections for online platforms such as Facebook and Google, which carry a majority of the ads online. The bill, the…

The White House and a growing number of congressional Republicans support a renewal of the federal evictions moratorium and rental assistance payments in the next economic relief package. The GOP support is due to the fear of a wave of evictions in the wake of the pandemic downturn. The federal evictions moratorium put in place by the…