> Big tech has routinely suppressed conservative voices and violated consumers’ privacy,” said Rep. Gooden. “We must rein in their destructive behavior and preserve the constitutional rights of all Americans.”

First, this whole suppressing conservatives voices thing is just totally unhinged from reality. The few tiny examples of this violate clearly defined platform rules (which pale in comparison to the giant gain of misinformation aimed at the right that’s free flowed). These companies and their products aren’t the same as a phone call, and you absolutely don’t have any constitutional rights if speech to it! They’re private platforms and anyone (eg Gab) can go and create their own.

If any company violated consumer’s privacy in accordance with constitutional rights, then current day lawsuits would win without any additional amendments.

This is both sides looking for a new boogie man, and will ultimately make America less competitive globally compared to a place like China where not only do their tech companies have massive integration across so many products (hello WeChat), but they have actual state support.

This is just populism aimed at all of those who didn’t make money in tech over the past 20 years, many of whom are jealous their industries got outsourced and therefore mad.