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Government Corruption
Biden administration's cozy relationship with Big Tech: White House visitor logs show Silicon Valley executives - including Apple CEO Tim Cook - effectively have a 'staff badge' for the West Wing
2023-02-09
[MAIL] On the campaign trail, Biden said he wanted to break up Big Tech monopolies and end Section 230. But the 2021-2022 Congress came and went and Big Tech legislation remained in limbo.

While it's normal for the White House to meet with business leaders, the frequency of such visits begs the question of what sort of closed-door promises were made, insiders say.

'The White House did very little to push Congress to move forward tech legislation anti-trust legislation, in 2021, and 2022,' one former Democratic congressional aide told DailyMail.com.

'They had all those meetings with Big Tech executives, but the real question is, how much were those executives successful in their private lobbying, in getting the White House not to escalate that fight?'

'The idea that this revolving door of tech lobbyists and executives are allowed to have access to officials who allegedly are working on reining in Big Tech who are allegedly going after some of the most egregious behavior, it's really problematic,' another former Democratic staffer on Capitol Hill told DailyMail.com.

Last Congress advocates criticized the White House for failing to utilize Democratic control of the White House and both chambers of Congress to prioritize legislation to take on Big Tech.
Posted by:Besoeker

#2  And NO visitor logs for his DE homes, where he spent an awful lot of his time.
Posted by: Glenmore    2023-02-09 15:09  

#1  Have they learned NOTHING about the downside of visitor logs ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2023-02-09 12:43  

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