{"id":2267597,"date":"2024-06-14T05:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-biden-seeks-to-hold-white-house-against-trump-tech-policy-battles-get-litigious\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T05:54:39","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T09:54:39","slug":"as-biden-seeks-to-hold-white-house-against-trump-tech-policy-battles-get-litigious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/as-biden-seeks-to-hold-white-house-against-trump-tech-policy-battles-get-litigious\/","title":{"rendered":"As Biden aims to retain the White House against Trump, tech policy disputes become increasingly litigious"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fas-biden-seeks-to-hold-white-house-against-trump-tech-policy-battles-get-litigious%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=2267597&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>As the November 5 \u2062election \u2062approaches, former President Donald Trump\u2062 is likely to become the\u200d Republican nominee. The Biden administration is increasingly focusing\u2063 on regulating Big Tech. After failing to pass\u200d antitrust laws through Congress despite Democratic control from 2021 to 2023, the\u2062 administration has now taken the matter into its own administrative arms. Key appointments\u200c include Lina\u2064 Khan\u200d as head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and Jonathan Kanter for the Department of Justice&#8217;s Antitrust\u2062 Division.<\/p>\n<p>One significant action is the collaboration between the FTC and the DOJ to investigate big tech \u2064firms like Nvidia and Microsoft&#8217;s investment in OpenAI, the creators of ChatGPT. The administration aims to preserve competitive opportunities in the rapidly evolving AI sector. However, critics, such as Tom \u200bHebert from Americans for Tax Reform, argue that these antitrust actions against AI are misguided and could hinder the US in the global AI race, potentially impacting areas like cancer detection and treatment technology.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the Biden-led DOJ is challenging well-established business practices\u2063 in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/san-francisco-will-not-rename-controversial-schools-school-board-promises-to-consult-historians\/\" title=\"San Francisco Will Not Rename \u2018Controversial\u2019 Schools, School Board Promises To \u2018Consult Historians\u2019\">tech sector<\/a>, including a major case against Google related to alleged monopolistic practices in online advertising. This\u200c case is set for a bench \u2063trial\u2062 in Virginia in \u2064September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing antitrust cases are \u200calso active against other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/state-level-republicans-push-back-on-big-tech\/\" title=\"State-Level Republicans Push Back on Big Tech\">major tech companies<\/a> like Amazon, Meta, and Apple. Furthermore, the administration has turned its regulatory attention to the telecommunications industry, reinstating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-to-sign-executive-order-cracking-down-on-big-tech-antitrust-issues\/\" title=\"Biden To Sign Executive Order Cracking Down On Big Tech, Antitrust Issues\">net neutrality rules<\/a> in April 2023 through an FCC vote.<\/p>\n<p>These regulatory efforts reflect the Biden administration&#8217;s broader policy of promoting competition, \u2064especially within the technology and telecommunications sectors.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As the Nov. 5 election nears and with former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> on the cusp of becoming the Republican nominee, President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Joe Biden<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/biden-administration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>administration<\/a> is amping up its regulatory actions \u2014 especially efforts to target so-called Big Tech.<\/p>\n<p>When advocates of expanding U.S. antitrust laws to rein in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/big-tech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Big Tech<\/a> failed to pass reforms through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congress<\/a> when Democrats held full control of the government from 2021 to 2023, the Biden administration took up the fight in its regulatory federal agencies. Meanwhile, Biden early in his administration appointed law professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lina-khan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Lina Khan<\/a> to lead the Federal Trade Commission and an ideological ally, Jonathan Kanter, to head the Department of Justice Antitrust Division.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>(Washington Examiner illustration; Associated Press; Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The most recent example of the White House\u2019s \u201cwhole of government\u201d effort to increase scrutiny on the tech industry is the deal struck between the FTC and the DOJ to divvy up investigations into leading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/artificial-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>AI<\/a> chipmaker Nvidia and software giant Microsoft\u2019s investment in OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT. Khan recently told a Harvard Law School audience that because \u201cthe AI space \u2026 is so fast-moving,\u201d the FTC wants to \u201cmake sure that the opportunity for competition and the potential for disruption is preserved, rather than this moment being co-opted by some of the existing dominant firms to double down on their dominance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But critics have their doubts. Tom Hebert, director of competition and regulatory policy at Americans for Tax Reform, told the <em>Washington Examiner, <\/em>\u201cAntitrust attacks on AI are an illegitimate use of government power and will put us behind communist China in the global AI race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to note the irony in the Biden administration\u2019s scrutiny of AI development: \u201cJoe Biden ran for president promising to \u2018end cancer as we know it.\u2019 Now, Biden\u2019s antitrust attack against AI could kill a technology that is already being used to detect and treat cancer and may one day help us find a cure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s Department of Justice is also opposing already well-established business practices in the tech space. A federal court in Alexandria, Virginia, recently ordered a DOJ case against Google to be a bench, instead of a jury, trial. The case, originally filed in January 2023, alleges that Google monopolized multiple open web display advertising markets involving the ad tech stack. The stack consists of technological tools connecting website publishers selling advertising inventory to prospective advertisers on the open web. The case will be heard this September in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>Cases brought under the Biden administration against Amazon, Meta, and Apple are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>The telecommunications industry has not escaped the regulatory ire of the White House either. Biden called for a reinstatement of net neutrality rules in his July 2021 \u201cExecutive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.\u201d On April 25 of this year, the Federal Communications Commission complied when it voted to reinstate open-internet rules and reclassify broadband as a Title II telecom service. Challenges to the regulations will be heard first in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, chosen at random to hear a consolidation of more than half a dozen challenges, filed across seven circuits.<\/p>\n<p>Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/michigans-whitmer-announces-new-re-opening-guidance-based-on-vaccination-levels\/\" title=\"Michigan\u2019s Whitmer Announces New Re-Opening Guidance Based On Vaccination Levels\">similar rules<\/a> were repealed during the Trump administration, net neutrality remains a rare partisan split in a larger backlash against large companies and the tech industry that\u2019s defied falling along party lines.<\/p>\n<p>Repeal during Trump\u2019s administration attracted an unprecedented amount of public interest for a telecom issue, and opponents warned the rollback would mean the \u201cend of the internet as we know it.\u201d However, after the repeal, no widespread blocking of sites or other service disruptions occurred. Industry groups opposing the reinstatement of net neutrality rules claim the FCC acted beyond its authority and that the shift will deter private investment in broadband infrastructure. FCC Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel told reporters that she has \u201cfull confidence that what we have proposed is consistent with outstanding opinions in the D.C. Circuit and the Supreme Court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An indication that Biden agency leaders aim to increase regulatory actions beyond the tech space, the DOJ filed suit against Live Nation Entertainment\u2019s Ticketmaster last month. The complaint accuses the company of being a monopolist and of other \u201cunlawful conduct that thwarts competition in markets across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-doj-and-29-states-sue-live-nation-nearly-two-years-after-taylor-swift-ticketmaster-debacle\/\" title=\"Biden's DOJ and 29 States Sue Live Nation Over Ticketmaster Incident\">live entertainment industry<\/a>.\u201d But critics assert that the case is a politically motivated attempt to appeal to younger voters in the wake of problems with the website meltdown around ticket sales for Taylor Swift\u2019s The Eras Tour.<\/p>\n<p>What influence these crackdowns on technology industries and an expanded vigor of antitrust enforcement will have on the presidential election remains to be seen. An April 2024 poll from left-leaning industry group Chamber of Progress found that 77% of voters in battleground states wanted the next president to \u201cfocus on expanding technology jobs and services, over focusing on regulating Amazon, Google, and Apple.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Nov. 5 election approaches, with Donald Trump poised to be the Republican nominee, President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration is intensifying regulatory measures, particularly targeting Big Tech. 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