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Democrat slammed over antitrust opposition |
The top Democrat on the antitrust subcommittee is facing pressure to support proposals targeting the dominance of tech giants in his new role. |
The P Street Project, the lobbying arm of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, sent a mailer to more than 36,000 individual constituents of Rep. Lou Correa (D-Calif.), slamming him as "Big Tech's Best Friend in Congress." Citing his votes against advancing antitrust reform bills last Congress, the group's mailer asserts Correa "betrayed consumers and left small businesses at the mercy of Big Tech and other monopolies," according to a copy exclusively shared with The Hill. "It makes no sense for the top Democrat on the antitrust subcommittee to put corporate tech monopolies over consumers and small businesses," P Street managing director Emma Lydon said in a statement. Correa took the reins as the ranking member of the committee in June after Rep. David Cicilline (D-R.I.) resigned from the House. The P Street Project is pushing Correa to support three antitrust reform bills: the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, the Open App Markets Act and the AMERICA Act. In response to the criticism, a spokesperson for Correa said the congressman "was elected to office to fight on behalf of his constituents and his state, and takes those fights directly to Washington's front door." "Unfortunately, being in the minority means House Republicans set the legislative agenda—and we've gotten no indication that these bills, which have yet to be introduced this Congress, are at the forefront of it," the Correa spokesperson said. Read more in a full report at TheHill.com. |
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Google is alleging the Department of Justice's top antitrust official is biased against the company over his previous work for rival firms, according to a filing in one of the government's antitrust cases against the tech giant. In a Thursday filing, Google sought information about previous work and advocacy by Jonathan Kanter, the U.S. assistant attorney general for antitrust, as the company heads to trial. "AAG Kanter's … |
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| A cohort of trade associations has thrown the first punch in a brawl over new Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations governing how investors are protected when putting their money with private fund advisers. The group said in a lawsuit filed Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit that they were challenging the Private Fund Adviser rule adopted by the SEC last month because the agency has exceeded … |
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The Guardian announced Friday that it will block artificial intelligence (AI) text generation program ChatGPT from accessing and using its content. AI products, such as ChatGPT, scrape content already online and use it as data to create new content via complex algorithms. Concerns over whether these programs have the legal right to use published text, audio and images to train their algorithms have continued to rise since their … |
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A federal judge on Thursday temporarily blocked Texas from enforcing a law requiring pornography sites to implement age-verification measures, after finding the law unconstitutional. U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra found that the law, which was set to go into effect Friday, violates the First Amendment because it "substantially regulates protected speech, is severely underinclusive, and uses overly restrictive enforcement … |
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Google Maps to show air quality, pollen info |
Google Maps will show information about air quality and pollen as part of a new "environment category," Mashable reported. |
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Social media flooded with ads for AI sex workers |
Social media platforms are being filled with explicit ads for artificial intelligence-generated sexual images and companionship, including ones that use popular children's TV characters or feature digitally created girls who appears to be teenagers or younger, NBC News reported. |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: | - The Senate Commerce Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a hearing to examine advances in artificial intelligence and the Department of Energy's role in ensuring U.S. competitiveness in emerging technologies on Thursday at 10 a.m. ET.
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