Biden says Republicans, Democrats should unite against Big Tech’s ‘abuse’ – WSJ According to Reuters
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(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece that Democrats and Republicans need to jointly pass strong bipartisan legislation to force public companies to Big tech is responsible.
Most importantly, Biden said he’d like to see “serious federal protections for Americans’ privacy,” including placing limits on the amount of data such as location, biometrics and information. Health can be collected. He also highlighted risks specific to children.
“We must hold social media companies accountable for the testing they are conducting on our children for profit,” he wrote, citing young people’s struggles with bullying. bullying, violence, trauma and mental health.
He also called for reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to hold tech companies “responsible for the content they spread and the algorithms they use.”
Both Republicans and Democrats have spent much of the past several years probing various aspects of the tech sector, largely agreeing that there’s a problem with Alphabet’s (NASDAQ: ), Meta’s Facebook (NASDAQ:) and others while largely disagreeing on how to address those issues.
In a statement following the release of the opinion, Democratic Senator Amy Klobuchar said she will continue to push for the passage of the bipartisan legislation she sponsored to ban companies from prioritizing their businesses in the financial markets. search results, among other measures.
