The Senate is set to begin consideration of two Republican nominees for the Federal Trade Commission, a pair of legal experts with a history of Big Tech skepticism.
FTC nominees Melissa Holyoak and Andrew Ferguson will appear before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation on Wednesday, and they will be questioned about their history and plans for the FTC. The two nominees are replacing the agency's past Republican commissioners, Christine Wilson and Noah Phillips, who both stepped down last year.
Virginia also joined 26 other state attorneys general in filing an amicus brief in the Gonzalez v. Google Supreme Court case. The brief argued for a narrow interpretation of Section 230, a law that protects websites from being held accountable for posts by third parties. They argued that the law should exclude technology companies from the protections.Holyoak serves as the solicitor general of Utah, where she has assisted in a few consumer-related cases.
Holyoak has been the target of scrutiny due to her involvement in several antitrust and consumer privacy lawsuits involving Google, Target, and other companies. A coalition of left-leaning groups urged Senate Democrats to vote against her, and they demanded her to offer a"proven commitment to antitrust enforcement and consumer protection."How the nominees could change the FTC
"It is good to see the Senate taking steps to restore a full slate of bipartisan commissioners at the FTC," Josh Rogin, the Computer and Communications Industry Association's vice president of federal affairs, told the Washington Examiner.
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