Wed Jan 26, 2022 – 6:30 pm EST
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – New legislation aimed at reining in Big Tech has united unusual bedfellows both for and against.
S.2992, the American Innovation and Choice Online Act introduced by Democrat U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, is co-sponsored by an even number of Republicans and Democrats, including Josh Hawley, Lindsey Graham, and Steve Daines from the GOP, and Dick Durbin, Mazie Hirono, and Cory Booker across the aisle.
According to its official summary, the bill “prohibits certain large online platforms from … giving preference to their own products on the platform, unfairly limiting the availability on the platform of competing products from another business, or discriminating in the application or enforcement of the platform’s terms of service among similarly situated users.”
It also says a platform cannot “materially restrict or impede the capacity of a competing business user to access or interoperate with the same platform, operating system, or hardware or software features,” “restricts the platform’s use of nonpublic data obtained from or generated on the platform and prohibits the platform from restricting access to platform data generated by the activity of a competing business user,” and “provides additional
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