{"id":1806673,"date":"2023-01-16T03:18:36","date_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1806673"},"modified":"2023-01-16T03:19:47","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T08:19:47","slug":"its-official-the-118th-congress-will-do-jack-all-to-stop-big-techs-abuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-official-the-118th-congress-will-do-jack-all-to-stop-big-techs-abuses\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Official: The 118th Congress Will Do Jack All To Stop Big Tech\u2019s Abuses"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fits-official-the-118th-congress-will-do-jack-all-to-stop-big-techs-abuses%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=1806673&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-->\n<p>\u201cRepublican House Shifting Tech Focus From Antitrust To Censorship, More Investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore investigations.\u201d It was <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationaldesk.com\/news\/americas-news-now\/republican-house-shifting-tech-focus-from-antitrust-to-censorship-more-investigations-social-media-twitter-facebook-google-amazon-weaponization-of-government-committee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the headline<\/a> last week from Sinclair\u2019s National Desk, making it official: The Republicans of the 118th Congress intend to do precisely jack all to effectively rein in the most powerful companies the world has ever seen, and by extension, will do precisely jack all to rein in their abuses.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe? \u201cjack all\u201d It is not fair to call them that. They will be holding hearings on censorship of private companies with collusion with left-wingers at the federal government. They\u2019ll give speeches in those hearings, bang the gavel, and berate Silicon Valley executives over Zoom, or maybe even in person. Congressman Jim Jordan will take off his sportcoat and give totally true speeches about the un-American abuses of power taking place in America\u2019s tech industry.<\/p>\n<p>Then, he will talk to his colleagues and go on Fox News. They\u2019ll fundraise off what they said on TV. Because people care about the issue, fundraisers will also make good money. \u201cDonate now to get more viral clips of us \u2018owning the libs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSend more money for more investigations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans love investigations. Remember Benghazi, remember? How about Hillary Clinton\u2019s servers? Or Fast and Furious \u2014 the one about that time President Barack Obama\u2019s attorney general funneled weapons to Mexican cartels to help score a propaganda win against legal American gun owners. That doozy ended up with a mass murder at a children\u2019s birthday party, a slain Border Patrol agent named Brian Terry, and countless other cartel atrocities. Attorney General Eric Holder was still in prison. Instead, his boss, Attorney General Eric Holder, bragged about his accomplishments after he left office. \u201cscandal-free administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s alright, though; the investigations dragged on, TV appearances abounded, celebrities were made, and campaign money was minted.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no surprise we\u2019re in for a repeat episode this time around. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/01\/09\/what-speaker-mccarthy-means-silicon-valley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">No one expected<\/a> a Republican leader from California to take the lead against Big Tech, and Jordan\u2019s office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/09\/28\/antitrust-flare-up-shows-no-tech-bill-is-sure-thing-congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has been<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/prospect.org\/politics\/congress-strange-bedfellows-fighting-big-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">staffed by<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/s9503.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Jim-Jordan-Memo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Silicon Valley defenders<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\/status\/1288242855065071619\">for years<\/a>. They knew this when men like Rep. Ken Buck and Sen. Josh Hawley fought for the American Innovation and Choice Online Act in the summer and fall. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/06\/20\/this-bill-is-the-last-game-in-town-for-checking-big-techs-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">it was the last game in town<\/a>: A Republican majority would be too afraid to appear hostile towards Big Business to address Big Tech on their own. Democrat minorities are well-known for their inability to help those who are not in power.<\/p>\n<p>Voters should however recognize the theater for what is. It\u2019s the reality of where the Republican Party stands today. GOP lawmakers have become conservative populists and decry Big Business abuses. But when Big Business mandates unproven, dangerous medical procedures, they are able to speak like conservative populists. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/15\/southwest-is-a-window-into-modern-tyranny-so-will-the-gop-fight-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">for employees<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/16\/if-republicans-are-worth-their-salt-theyll-block-invasive-vaccine-passports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">or customers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/04\/19\/covid-databases-are-among-us-and-the-right-must-fight-and-win-now-or-never\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">they shrug<\/a> Reagan and murmur something infuriating. The message: The government should defend its citizens, unless it\u2019s against Big Business.<\/p>\n<p>This is true for Big Tech companies that do business with China, as well as private universities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans have learned to talk like conservative populists, decrying the abuses of Big Business, but will they actually do anything about it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":574,"featured_media":1806676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[13178,5582,4402,6919,6550,7317,4808,6775],"class_list":["post-1806673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-118th","tag-abuses","tag-congress","tag-federalist","tag-its","tag-jack","tag-official","tag-techs"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1806676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}