{"id":371806,"date":"2018-08-02T10:01:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-02T09:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-senate-proposal-calls-for-regulating-big-tech\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T10:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T09:01:59","slug":"prison-planet-com-senate-proposal-calls-for-regulating-big-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-senate-proposal-calls-for-regulating-big-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Senate Proposal Calls for Regulating Big Tech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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August 1, 2018<\/p>\n

A new policy paper making the rounds in Congress and tech circles could signal the future of regulating big tech.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The white paper, which was first obtained by<\/span><\/a>Axios<\/i>, was written by the office of Sen. Mark Warner (D., Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Warner is one of the leading Democrats investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. He and his colleagues have pointed to the Russian use of platforms like Facebook<\/span><\/a>\u2014which has some 230 million users<\/span><\/a> in the United States alone\u2014to try to influence the outcome of the election.<\/span><\/p>\n

At one time a darling of the press and business world, big tech has seen its metaphorical stock fall in recent months amid bipartisan complaints. Russia\u2019s interference and the farming of data by Cambridge Analytica<\/span><\/a> has raised the ire of liberals. Conservatives, meanwhile, have long complained<\/span><\/a>of bias from<\/span><\/a> social networking sites, who they say unfairly target conservative content over similar posts from liberals.<\/span><\/p>\n

These complaints only scratch the surface of the concerns the new paper raises. Modern tech relies on aggregating huge quantities of information, the privacy implications of which are not yet fully understood<\/span><\/a>. And firms like Google and Facebook have come to dominate the internet (the two companies alone have influence over 70 percent of internet traffic<\/span><\/a>), a position which skeptics view as a threat to competition and the robust health of the tech sector.<\/span><\/p>\n

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