The California representative has a long history opposing antitrust reform.
New York Post’s, Jordan wrote letters to five of the largest tech companies, including Meta and Google, demanding they hand over all correspondence between their companies and Biden administration officials once he took the helm of the Judiciary Committee in January.
Despite the alarmist rhetoric over Big Tech’s power over speech, Jordan has repeatedly opposed measures to curb the companies’ market dominance. Throughout the last Congress, House Democrats led a sweepinginto four major tech companies: Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Google. They issued a final report in 2021 detailing the ways in which the companies might unlawfully maintain their market dominance and introduced several bills to reform antitrust laws to better regulate the industry.
“It’s very much about the grievance politics of complaining about tech companies’ restriction over speech while doing absolutely nothing to reduce their power”
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