{"id":79725,"date":"2020-10-01T21:03:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/heres-where-biden-and-trump-stand-on-antitrust-social-media-and-other-tech-issues\/"},"modified":"2020-10-01T21:03:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-01T18:03:30","slug":"heres-where-biden-and-trump-stand-on-antitrust-social-media-and-other-tech-issues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-where-biden-and-trump-stand-on-antitrust-social-media-and-other-tech-issues\/","title":{"rendered":"#\n  Here\u2019s where Biden and Trump stand on antitrust, social media and other tech issues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406f0b90547\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a406f0b90547\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-where-biden-and-trump-stand-on-antitrust-social-media-and-other-tech-issues\/#No_matter_who_wins_the_presidential_race_expect_Big_Tech_to_continue_to_be_a_target_for_Republicans_and_Democrats_alike\" >No matter who wins the presidential race, expect Big Tech to continue to be a target for Republicans and Democrats alike<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/heres-where-biden-and-trump-stand-on-antitrust-social-media-and-other-tech-issues\/#Jon_Swartz\" >Jon Swartz<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#<br \/>\n  Here\u2019s where Biden and Trump stand on antitrust, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> and other tech issues<br \/>\n<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"article__subhead\" itemprop=\"alternativeHeadline\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"No_matter_who_wins_the_presidential_race_expect_Big_Tech_to_continue_to_be_a_target_for_Republicans_and_Democrats_alike\"><\/span>\n  No matter who wins the presidential race, expect Big Tech to continue to be a target for Republicans and Democrats alike<br \/>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"column column--full article__content\">\n<div id=\"js-article__body\" class=\"article__body article-wrap at16-col16 barrons-article-wrap\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-sbid=\"94AE2CA6-F792-11EA-A145-8CC0562BE5C6\">\n<div class=\"barrons-article-ad-wrapper\">\n<div data-track=\"barrons-article-ad-wrap\" class=\"barrons-article-ad sticky_item\">\n<div class=\"barrons-main-article-ad-target sticky_target body_ad\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>       President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden don\u2019t agree on many issues, but they do share a wariness toward Big Tech that should maintain or even escalate antitrust scrutiny of the largest U.S. tech companies no matter who wins on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p> In the middle of antitrust investigations into four of the most prominent companies in the world \u2014 Alphabet Inc.\u2019s Google<br \/>\n        GOOGL,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202490156\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.27%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0,<br \/>\n        GOOG,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/205453964\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.16%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0Facebook Inc.<br \/>\n        FB,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/205064656\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.44%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0, Amazon.com Inc.<br \/>\n        AMZN,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/210331248\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+1.53%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0, and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">App<\/a>le Inc.<br \/>\n        AAPL,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/202934861\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+0.38%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0 \u2014 both Trump and Biden have stopped short of calling for companies to be broken up. But their animus toward an industry that has grown to be distrusted by many Americans reflects a golden rule in politics: Run against the corporate boogeyman.<\/p>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n       Democrats and Republicans have approached tech issues with different motivations in recent years, but will continue the \u201ctechlash\u201d for at least four more years because it\u2019s what the public wants to counterbalance the industry\u2019s growing market power and cultural influence, Capital Alpha Partners analyst Robert Kaminsky told MarketWatch. Republicans have focused their agenda on what they deem an anticonservative bias on social-media platforms, while Democrats are pivoting toward anticompetitive business practices and consumer-privacy rights, and the winners in November will determine the direction of the response.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see no end to bipartisan criticism of Big Tech,\u201d Kaminsky said.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has threatened broad regulatory actions against internet companies for what the president and other Republicans claim is anticonservative bias, while maintaining antitrust investigations of Google and Facebook, and fighting in the courts for bans on Chinese-owned apps such as TikTok and WeChat. <\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s Justice Department is reportedly close to filing a lawsuit against Google\u2019s search and advertising business before the election that likely would spill over into the next administration. The Federal Trade Commission, meanwhile, is preparing a possible lawsuit against Facebook by the end of the year over unspecified antitrust violations. The FTC continues its probe of Amazon, while the status of the Justice Department\u2019s investigation of Apple remains unclear.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For more: Big Tech turning on one another amid antitrust probes and litigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden, who was vice president during the Silicon Valley-friendly administration of President Barack Obama, has been critical of Big Tech\u2019s market power. He supports stringent antitrust oversight and online privacy rules, but leans heavily toward forcing social-media companies to better police their sites against false information. Biden has proposed a minimum federal tax aimed at companies like Amazon, and vowed government action to help workers under threat from innovations such as self-driving cars.<\/p>\n<p>Here is how the two main 2020 presidential candidates stack up on the issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Breaking Up Big Tech<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"cx-membership-tile\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite the lineage of a pro-Silicon Valley Obama administration that has some conservatives and progressives fretting that Biden would settle antitrust cases if elected, a campaign spokesman strongly suggested otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden has long said one of the greatest sins is the abuse of power,\u201d Matt Hill told The Wall Street Journal in September. \u201cMany <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> giants and their executives have not only abused their power, but misled the American people, damaged our democracy and evaded any form of responsibility. That ends with a President Biden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A policy task force Biden created with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., recommends breaking up companies for anticompetitive behavior, but only \u201cas a last resort.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: Here\u2019s where Trump and Biden stand on China and other trade issues<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump, who routinely bashes Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos \u2014 who also owns the Washington Post \u2014 has established civil relations with Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. But he has been vague when asked about Big Tech, saying, \u201cThere is something going on in terms of monopoly.\u201d Still, one possible outcome of the federal government\u2019s continuing antitrust investigations is breaking up companies.<\/p>\n<p>The administration also finds itself entangled in a legal dispute between Microsoft Corp.<br \/>\n        MSFT,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/207732364\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+0.83%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0, which was awarded a 10-year, $10 billion cloud-computing contract with the Pentagon, and Amazon, whose executives are convinced the deal was awarded for political reasons. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media Regulation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social-media companies have felt the rhetorical sting of both presidential candidates, largely around one of the only major laws governing the internet that the federal government has managed to pass.<\/p>\n<p>Even though Trump benefited greatly from an aggressive digital campaign to win the White House in 2016, he continues to claim \u2014 in tweets \u2014 that platforms unfairly censor conservative viewpoints. Things spiraled in May, when Twitter Inc.<br \/>\n        TWTR,<br \/>\n        <bg-quote field=\"percentchange\" format=\"0,000.00%\" channel=\"\/zigman2\/quotes\/203180645\/composite\" class=\"positive\">+3.38%<\/bg-quote><br \/>\n      \u00a0 slapped fact-checking labels on Trump tweets for the first time, prompting the president to threaten to introduce legislation that would weaken Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a 1996 federal law that exempts online platforms from legal liability for material users post, for the most part. Trump subsequently called for repeal of Section 230 in a Sept. 8 tweet. Neither action has had much effect.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read: Here\u2019s where Trump and Biden stand on health care<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Republican-run Senate Commerce Committee voted to subpoena Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai to appear for a hearing on Section 230. Committee chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., said the hearing, which has no assigned date, would be to address allegations of anticonservative bias on social-media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Biden, who has criticized Facebook\u2019s policies on political ads and manipulated videos, was the only Democratic presidential candidate who called for revoking Section 230 in the primaries. On Tuesday, the Biden campaign eviscerated Facebook as \u201cthe nation\u2019s foremost propagator of disinformation about the voting process\u201d in a letter to Zuckerberg lamenting Facebook\u2019s refusal to remove voting misinformation posted by Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The differing views on Section 230 highlights contrasting political approaches.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever you have a platform dealing with content, there will be an argument over removal of content, which is the Republicans\u2019 view, vs. failure to remove content, which is where the Democrats stand,\u201d Paven Malhotra, a Silicon Valley attorney who specializes in intellectual property, told MarketWatch. \u201cNonetheless, I expect a groundswell of movement next year by both parties to modify 230.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Data Privacy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As Congress wends its way toward federal consumer privacy legislation, Biden has voiced support for national privacy \u201cstandards not unlike the Europeans,\u201d an apparent reference to the European Union\u2019s strict <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">General<\/a> Data Protection Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration, in turn, has criticized Silicon Valley over the issue of encryption. The president called for a boycott of Apple early in his presidency for the company\u2019s refusal to unlock iPhones used by mass shooters in San Bernardino, Calif., and <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/14\/trump-rips-apple-for-refusing-to-unlock-phones-used-by-killers\/\" class=\"icon none\">has continued to push that issue<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><strong>For more: Here\u2019s where Trump and Biden stand on climate change<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, the Trump administration has ramped up attacks on GDPR, calling it a restrictive system that provides cover to cybercriminals and threatens public health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe do have serious concerns about its [the GDPR\u2019s] overly restrictive implications for public safety and law enforcement,\u201d U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Cyber Rob Strayer, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/06\/29\/trump-administration-gdpr-345254\" class=\"icon none\">told Politico in late June<\/a>. \u201cWe definitely find that divergent interpretations [of the law] are also an issue, chilling some of the commerce that could be taking place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>High-speed Broadband Access<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pandemic has forced millions of Americans to work from home and attend school, putting a premium on high-speed broadband and exposing inequalities in availability of the technology nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates support some plan to bring ultrafast connections to everyone: The FTC in January approved a $20 billion rural broadband expansion fund, while Biden said he plans a $20 billion investment in rural broadband infrastructure as part of a package his team proposed to spend money collected from tax increases on wealthy Americans.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gig Jobs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden has suggested using government regulation to force \u201cgig economy\u201d businesses to pay for benefits to their independent contractors by reclassifying them as employees.The Trump campaign claims a California gig-worker law that does that will \u201ctake away workers\u2019 opportunity to make their own schedules and participate in a free and open gig economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Labor Department, led by Trump appointee Eugene Scalia, last year said people offering services on online sites or apps should be considered employees of the consumer who hires them, making it difficult for gig workers to win labor disputes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>See also: How Trump and Biden tax policies could affect your paycheck<\/strong><\/p>\n<div data-layout=\"\n              inline\" data-layout-mobile=\"\" class=\"\n        media-object\n        type-InsetCommentingPromo\n            \n            inline\n  article__inset\n        article__inset--type-InsetCommentingPromo\n            article__inset--inline\n  \"><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"byline article__byline\">\n<p>      <span>By<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"author  hasMenu\" data-scrim='{\"type\":\"author\",\"header\":\"Jon Swartz\",\"subhead\":\"The Wall Street Journal\",\"list\":[]}' itemscope itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/Person\">\n<h4 itemprop=\"name\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Jon_Swartz\"><\/span>Jon Swartz<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/news\/story.asp?guid=%7B94AE2CA6-F792-11EA-A145-8CC0562BE5C6%7D&#038;siteid=rss&#038;rss=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;# Here\u2019s where Biden and Trump stand on antitrust, social media and other tech issues &#8221; 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