Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real? • Hacker News Board

Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?

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Post by horseradish » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:22 PM UTC

Biden launches action on "Big Tech, Big Pharma, and Big Ag" – can it be real?
mattstoller.substack.com

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Post by SV_BubbleTime » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:38 PM UTC

Perhaps we would look at the donations to see if this is likely or not?

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Post by ratsmack » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:42 PM UTC

I can understand them going after Ag and Pharma in a big way, but I'm skeptical about the Tech part. There is just too much to lose in political support from that industry for any politician to attack them too aggressively.

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Post by jedmeyers » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:43 PM UTC

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #2

Perhaps we would look at the donations to see if this is likely or not?

Is buying a son’s painting considered a donation or not?

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Post by bilbo0s » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:44 PM UTC

Finally, they've started attacking big tech on the privacy front. The whole "monopoly" and "anti-trust" thing was going nowhere. But privacy orders like this are a step in the right direction.

And to put the nail in big tech's coffin, congress should pass a law forbidding the sharing of any personal information on any resident of the US for any commercial reason whatsoever. With draconian penalties assessed per user infraction. That would stop these tech companies in their tracks.

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Post by mathisonturing » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:45 PM UTC

jedmeyers wrote: post #4

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #2

Perhaps we would look at the donations to see if this is likely or not?

Is buying a son’s painting considered a donation or not?

Elaborate? Out of the loop

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Post by ampdepolymerase » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:46 PM UTC

How about Big Telecom and Big Fintech and Banking? Or is it simply because the rest did not pay enough to the lobbyists?

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Post by bogwog » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:46 PM UTC

bilbo0s wrote: post #5

Finally, they've started attacking big tech on the privacy front. The whole "monopoly" and "anti-trust" thing was going nowhere. But privacy orders like this are a step in the right direction. And to put the nail in big tech's coffin, congress should pass a law forbidding the sharing of any personal information on any resident of the US for any commercial reason whatsoever. With draconian penalties assessed per user…

> With draconian penalties assessed per user infraction.

You mean like chopping off a limb/finger for every violation?

Unfortunately, that won't work for a certain lizardman CEO who is purported to be able to regrow limbs.

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Post by oh_sigh » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:46 PM UTC

jedmeyers wrote: post #4

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #2

Perhaps we would look at the donations to see if this is likely or not?

Is buying a son’s painting considered a donation or not?

That's anonymous - there's no way for the Biden's to ever know the buyer. Of course, the buyer can just show them a picture of the painting in their house or whatever but that would be unethical.

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Post by the-dude » Sun, Jul 11, 2021, 6:47 PM UTC

> hospital price transparency,

Wasn't this already put in place by the previous administration?