{"id":1003439,"date":"2021-11-12T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1003439"},"modified":"2021-11-12T13:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T18:44:03","slug":"biden-pushes-soros-linked-far-left-radical-alvaro-bedoya-for-ftc-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pushes-soros-linked-far-left-radical-alvaro-bedoya-for-ftc-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Pushes Soros-Linked Far Left Radical Alvaro Bedoya for FTC Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-pushes-soros-linked-far-left-radical-alvaro-bedoya-for-ftc-commissioner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1003439&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">The Biden administration has selected a George Soros-linked radical, Georgetown Law professor Alvaro Bedoya, as its pick for FTC commissioner. Bedoya is backed by far-left foundations, and is a Russiagate conspiracy theorist who once suggested that Breitbart News was \u201cblocking\u201d a counterintelligence operation into Trump\u2019s non-existent ties to the Russian government.<\/p>\n<p>Bedoya, who will go up before the Senate Commerce Committee next week to face questions about his nomination, is the&nbsp;founding director of the Center on Privacy &amp; Technology at Georgetown Law.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<div id=\"attachment_18584410\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"37\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joe-Biden-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18584410\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Joe-Biden-2.jpg\" alt=\"GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - NOVEMBER 02: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the World Leaders&#039; Summit &quot;Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment&quot; session on day three of COP26 on November 02, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. It is the 26th &quot;Conference of the Parties&quot; and represents a gathering of all the countries signed on to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Paris Climate Agreement. The aim of this year&#039;s conference is to commit countries to net zero carbon emissions by 2050. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell\/Getty Images)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GLASGOW, SCOTLAND \u2013 NOVEMBER 02: U.S. President Joe Biden speaks during the World Leaders\u2019 Summit \u201cAccelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment\u201d session on day three of COP26 on November 02, 2021 in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Jeff J Mitchell\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Center\u2019s financial backers include a string of familiar left-wing and partisan progressive institutions: George Soros\u2019 Open Society Foundations, the Ford Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.influencewatch.org\/non-profit\/media-democracy-fund\/\">Media Democracy Fund<\/a>, famous for pushing the \u201cNet Neutrality\u201d propaganda campaign during the Obama administration.<\/p>\n<p>The Center also <a href=\"https:\/\/luminategroup.com\/portfolio?keyword=georgetown&amp;order=impact_area_label&amp;direction=asc\">received more than $1.5 million from Luminate<\/a>, one of the funding arms of PayPal founder Pierre Omidyar, who has done more than perhaps any other left-wing billionaire to push internet censorship.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to funding the pro-censorship Facebook \u201cwhistleblower,\u201d Frances Haugen, <a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2017\/04\/05\/technology\/pierre-omidyar-donation-fake-news\/index.html\">Omidyar has poured at least $100 million<\/a> into efforts to fight so-called \u201chate speech\u201d and \u201cdisinformation\u201d on the internet \u2014 efforts that almost always result in conservatives and Republicans being kicked off online platforms.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.2623762376238\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Key: Pelosi and Schumer *both* have the highest levels of access to intelligence. They would not say things like this lightly. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3QB70AB06i\">pic.twitter.com\/3QB70AB06i<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alvaro Bedoya (@alvarombedoya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alvarombedoya\/status\/1018922858792267778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bedoya is no less partisan than his backers. He is a \u201cRussiagate\u201d conspiracy theorist, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/QwlAD\">repeating Democrat insinuations<\/a> that the Russian government had compromising information about Donald Trump. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.md\/Ry0Bk\">suggested<\/a> that Breitbart News was somehow blocking a \u201clegitimate counterintelligence inquiry\u201d into Trump\u2019s non-existent ties to Russia.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7.4039408866995\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch this. Ocasio-Cortez is unequivocally the future of progressive politics in this country. She is a force to be reckoned with. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rMkrltmWaz\">https:\/\/t.co\/rMkrltmWaz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alvaro Bedoya (@alvarombedoya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alvarombedoya\/status\/1012331963057831937?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The law professor has also praised Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), one of the most left-wing Democrats in the House, calling her the \u201cfuture of progressive politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11176322\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"32\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AOC-one-finger-640x480-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11176322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/AOC-one-finger-640x480-1.jpg\" alt=\"AOC\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AOC (Getty Images\/Alex Wong)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Many users of online platforms are concerned about privacy, Bedoya\u2019s supposed area of expertise. But Bedoya\u2019s privacy concerns are focused on a particular target \u2014 the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Bedoya has made his intentions to hobble the powers of ICE very clear, and is particularly concerned that new technological tools might help them enforce U.S. immigration laws more effectively.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"14.19512195122\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Maryland police have no business working with ICE. <\/p>\n<p>Maryland police have no business working with ICE.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland police have no business working with ICE.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland police have no business working with ICE.<\/p>\n<p>Maryland police have no business working with ICE. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MakMtx70Dp\">https:\/\/t.co\/MakMtx70Dp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alvaro Bedoya (@alvarombedoya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alvarombedoya\/status\/1380952388891197442?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.305031446541\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you\u2019re wondering whether strong utilities privacy laws and laws to rein in data brokers could have helped here, the answer to that question is YES.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to call ICE what it is: An out-of-control domestic surveillance agency that peers into all our lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alvaro Bedoya (@alvarombedoya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alvarombedoya\/status\/1365422051704602631?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 26, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Condemning ICE as an \u201cout-of-control domestic surveillance agency,\u201d Bedoya also attacked the Maryland Police department for working with the agency.<\/p>\n<p>During his time as director, Bodeya used the resources of the&nbsp;Center on Privacy &amp; Technology at Georgetown to make ICE\u2019s work more difficult, subpoenaing the agency for its use of digital tools to track down people who had broken U.S. immigration laws.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Via the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/us-news-ap-top-news-ut-state-wire-wa-state-wire-immigration-b289e8fea1564295be99a13a13d6962f\">Associated Press<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"13\">\n<p>Civil rights activists complained Monday of the potential for widespread abuse following confirmation that at least three states have scanned millions of driver\u2019s license photos on behalf of Immigration and Customs Enforcement without the drivers\u2019 knowledge or consent. Public records obtained by the Georgetown Law Center on Privacy and Technology provided the first proof that ICE had sought such scans, which were conducted in Utah, Vermont and Washington. \u2026 \u201cStates asked undocumented people to come out of the shadows to get licenses. Then ICE turns around and uses that to find them,\u201d Alvaro Bedoya, the center\u2019s director, said Monday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In a discussion with far-left activists including a representative from Color of Change, an organization that has campaigned for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/08\/21\/report-splc-color-of-change-played-role-in-mastercard-blacklisting-robert-spencer\/\">credit card companies to cut off service to conservatives<\/a>, Bodeya worried that online surveillance meant that \u201cundocumented\u201d people would no longer be able to \u201cstay in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openmic.org\/news\/new-video-no-safety-with-surveillance-examines-tech-industrys-dangerous-surveillance-profit-model\">Open Mic:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"8\">\n<p>\u201cSurveillance isn\u2019t a question of cookies on browsers. It\u2019s a question of life or death. It\u2019s a question of, can you explore your sexuality in peace and without other people looking over your shoulder. It\u2019s a question of whether you can stay in this country if you\u2019re undocumented.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At a time when the Biden administration, Democrats, and the media are waging a relentless campaign against Facebook and other tech platforms, urging them to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/07\/16\/white-house-colludes-with-facebook-to-censor-misinformation\/\">censor even more dissident opinions<\/a>, Bodeya has publicly expressed glee at the prospect of wielding greater regulatory powers for the FTC.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"12.282208588957\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">8\/ Oh, and yes, we *definitely* need to give the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FTC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FTC<\/a> more money \u2014 and more authority \u2014 to police our tech sector. Whenever you hear about the FTC consent decree against Facebook, remember that it was a small group of people that made that happen. <\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s\u2026 make it bigger?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alvaro Bedoya (@alvarombedoya) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alvarombedoya\/status\/984167040150921217?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c[W]e *definitely* need to give the @FTC more money \u2014 and more authority \u2014 to police our tech sector,\u201d said Bodeya on Twitter. \u201cWhenever you hear about the FTC consent decree against Facebook, remember that it was a small group of people that made that happen. Let\u2019s\u2026 make it bigger?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If the Senate confirms him, Bodeya will get the authority he desires. Tucked away in the Reconciliation Bill is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adlawaccess.com\/2021\/11\/articles\/a-new-era-for-the-ftc-and-u-s-privacy-house-reconciliation-bill-would-give-the-ftc-500-million-to-build-a-new-privacy-bureau\/\">giant new handful of taxpayer cash for the FTC<\/a>, and for the very area that Bodeya has established himself in&nbsp;\u2014 privacy.<\/p>\n<p>On page 671 of the bill is a provision that allocates a massive $500 million to create a new FTC privacy bureau, to be spent between 2022 and 2029.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, in addition to the existing resources of the FTC, Bodeya will have a brand new $500 million budget to play with.<\/p>\n<p>Even without Bodeya, the FTC has demonstrated its determination to move in a far-left direction. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2021\/11\/02\/ftc-to-hire-leftist-wacko-meredith-whitaker-former-google-worker-who-attacked-women-for-supporting-trump\/\">It recently hired Meredith Whittaker<\/a>, infamous as one of the most far-left activist employees at Google, who referred to the Daily Caller as a \u201chate site,\u201d accused Heritage Foundation president Kay Coles James of holding \u201cexterminationist\u201d views about transgender people, and has rejected any cooperation with conservatives on regulating Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>Bodeya\u2019s confirmation would put yet another left-wing partisan in a position of enormous power over both Big Tech companies and the wider economy \u2014 power that, thanks to the Reconciliation Bill, is set to expand even further. Do Republicans in the Senate think Bodeya will use that power fairly, or wisely?<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News.&nbsp;He is the author of&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/DELETED-Techs-Battle-Movement-Election\/dp\/154605930X\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">#DELETED: Big Tech\u2019s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration has selected a George Soros-linked radical, Georgetown Law professor Alvaro Bedoya, as its pick for FTC commissioner. 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