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More competition: Biden signs order targeting big business AAMER MADHANI and MARCY GORDON, Associated Press July 9, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 8 1of8President Joe Biden hands out a pen after signing an executive order aimed at promoting competition in the economy, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, July 9, 2021, in Washington. Standing from left, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Lina Khan, Chair of the Federal Trade Commission, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Attorney General Merrick Garland, National ...

Daily Times July 10, 2021 Vowing to reset the economy for the benefit of everyday workers and consumers, President Joe Biden unveiled on Friday a wide-ranging plan to tilt the balance of power away from corporations and towards “the little guy.” Biden described the initiative as a shift from what he called Washington’s 40-year “experiment of letting giant corporations accumulate more and more power” as he signed an executive order directing changes on everything from the sale of hearing aids to the disclosure of airline baggage fees. “We have to get back to an economy that grows f...

How conservative anger at Big Tech pushed the GOP into Bernie Sanders’ corner By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times Published: May 9, 2021, 2:45pm Share: Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., chair of the Senate Budget Committee, pauses for reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, April 29, 2021, the day after President Joe Biden addressed Congress on his first 100 days in office. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) WASHINGTON – During most of Donald Trump’s time in the White House, Silicon Valley could regard the legal threats Republicans hurled its way as a sideshow: unfoc...

How conservative anger at Big Tech pushed the GOP into Bernie Sanders' corner Evan Halper © Provided by The LA Times A demonstrator protests the spread of disinformation on Facebook outside a San Francisco home owned by CEO Mark Zuckerberg in late November. Now, many Republicans are aiming to break up, or at least punish, tech companies. (Jeff Chiu / Associated Press) During most of Donald Trump’s time in the White House, Silicon Valley could regard the legal threats Republicans hurled its way as a sideshow: unfocused, unserious, untenable. But a campaign launched in a ca...

Print During most of Donald Trump’s time in the White House, Silicon Valley could regard the legal threats Republicans hurled its way as a sideshow: unfocused, unserious, untenable. But a campaign launched in a cauldron of conservative grievance — over censorship allegations, complaints of “woke” corporate values and the power wielded by a few Bay Area billionaires — has, in former President Trump’s absence, morphed into something far more worrisome to big business. The GOP push to break up, or at least punish, Big Tech is now an unexpectedly disciplined movement that is causing ...