President-elect Joe Biden is about to have a really completely different relationship with the tech business from when he served as vice chairman. Tech corporations have grown extra highly effective over the previous 4 years — and extra perilous. They’ve continued to amass knowledge and wealth. However they’ve been used as instruments for election interference and disinformation, contributing to the divide within the nation.
The Trump administration put antitrust and regulation on the agenda, and they’re prone to proceed underneath the Biden administration. An overhaul of the foundations governing tech is overdue: The cornerstone Web regulation regulation, which shields corporations from legal responsibility for content material posted by customers, will flip 25 years outdated this yr and predates lots of the hottest websites, apps and companies.
The coronavirus pandemic made tech extra central to day by day lives, nevertheless it additionally uncovered inequalities that the Biden administration is prone to face. Hundreds of thousands of gig employees, who’re related to jobs by means of tech platforms, don’t obtain the advantages that come together with being thought-about full staff. And hundreds of thousands of Individuals don’t have entry to the high-speed Web connections which are important for college and many roles.
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Silicon Valley braces for more durable regulation in Biden’s new Washington
By Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin
Democratic leaders for years have proposed a bevy of latest laws to shrink Silicon Valley’s company footprint, limit its insatiable urge for food for knowledge and cease the unfold of falsehoods on-line. However the social gathering’s requires regulation have grown extra pressing within the days since Joe Biden received the presidency, the Democratic Social gathering regained management of the Home and the Senate — and President Trump and his allies additional uncovered the dangers of a largely unregulated net.
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Web regulation takes on larger urgency as pandemic highlights digital divide
By Cat Zakrzewski and Tony Romm
As President-elect Joe Biden takes workplace, his administration will face strain to right away prioritize the growth of broadband entry and dismantle a few of the Trump administration’s hallmark efforts to decontrol the Web.
