Democrats promised to rein in Big Tech. They have failed.

December 25, 2023

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kind of old topic but good ,how progress has come.

sensorship and concerns .

Members of Congress campaigned on finally setting rules to rein in the power of technology companies after decades of inaction, but the remaining options are flawed and stalled with a month before legislators take off to campaign for midterm elections that could flip power

Democrats promised to change that in the last election cycle. While winning the presidency and both houses of Congress, they promised to crack down on the immense and growing power of Big Tech companies like Apple Inc. AAPL , Alphabet Inc. GOOGL GOOG , Amazon.com Inc. AMZN and Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. META by reshaping antitrust law.

The American Innovation and Choice Online Act is meant to prevent dominant firms from favoring their own services and disadvantaging rivals, or discriminating against businesses or biasing search