EVDen eVE nakLiyat<\/a> pressure from executive branch entities,’ Jordan wrote.’Because of Big Tech’s wide reach, it can serve as a powerful and effective partisan arm of the ‘woke speech police.”<\/p>\nBut Jordan has opposed other anti-trust reform, including increasing the fees tech companies pay when they file a merger with the federal government to raise funds for the Federal Trade Commission’s anti-trust division.\u00a0<\/p>\n
So far McCarthy has not prioritized anti-trust legislation aimed at Big Tech either.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
In his ‘Commitment to America’ GOP agenda released ahead of midterms, McCarthy promised to\u00a0‘confront Big Tech and advance free speech’ by repealing Section 230 and bolstering anti-trust enforcement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
But he opposed a bipartisan pair of bills that would break up tech monopolies like Apple and Amazon and end their self-preferencing practices.Apple and Amazon’s biggest defendant in Washington, Jeff Miller, is a close ally and personal friend of McCarthy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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