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Biden Calls for Limiting Tech Companies’ Use of
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Both parties have criticized social-media companies
WASHINGTON—President Biden called on lawmakers of both parties to come together to
pass legislation to hold big technology and social-media companies accountable,
accusing some in the industry of exploiting users’ personal data and endangering
children.
In a Wednesday opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, Mr. Biden said the legislation
should protect users’ privacy by putting in place limits on how companies use, collect
and share personal data. He recommended limiting targeted advertising and banning it
altogether for minors.
The president reiterated his long standing push to rewrite Section 230 of the 1996
Communications Decency Act, which shields companies from liability for content users
post on their sites. In addition, Mr. Biden pressed for more information about the
algorithms companies use to filter information to users.
“We must hold social-media companies accountable for the experiment they are running
on our children for profit,” Mr. Biden wrote.
He also called for greater competition in the tech sector. “To realize that vision, and to
make sure American tech keeps leading the world in cutting-edge innovation, we need
fairer rules of the road,” he wrote. “The next generation of great American companies
shouldn’t be smothered by the dominant incumbents before they have a chance to get off
the ground.”
The tech industry says it faces substantial competition, and companies have broadly
supported a national privacy law as long as it doesn’t disrupt core advertising
businesses.
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Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers says she would like to see President Biden and
Congress work together on privacy issues.Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/Associated Press
Newly empowered House Republican lawmakers are planning a raft of investigations into
the Biden administration and recently formed the Select Subcommittee on the
Weaponization of the Federal Government. That panel is expected to probe what some
Republicans say have been efforts by the Biden administration to influence content
hosted by companies such as Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc. and Alphabet Inc.,
owner of YouTube and Google. The White House has said it raised concerns about
misinformation to social-media companies, particularly about Covid-19.
Mr. Biden appeared to reference the committee in the op-ed. “We’ve heard a lot of talk
about creating committees. It’s time to walk the walk and get something done,” he
wrote. A spokesman for the House Judiciary Committee, which houses the new
subcommittee, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Following November’s midterm election, which ushered in divided government in
Washington, Mr. Biden has increasingly emphasized policy areas that he believes can win
bipartisan support. In last year’s State of the Union address, the president outlined his
push for bipartisan legislation to rein in big technology and social-media companies.
Privacy legislation, especially addressing the collection of data about children’s online
activities, has long been an area of interest on Capitol Hill, though lawmakers have failed
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to hammer out a broad, bipartisan compromise. Mr. Biden’s support could help restart
those talks. Meanwhile, the op-ed cited a privacy rule-making under way at the Federal
Trade Commission aimed at similar issues.
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Rep. Cathy McMorris-Rodgers (R., Wash.), the new chair of the House Committee on
Energy and Commerce, said in a statement that Mr. Biden was right to call out “risks
posed by Big Tech” and urged him to work with Congress “rather than trying to address
these harms unilaterally through executive action.”
Republicans also want to examine Section 230, but the parties differ on their goals. Mr.
Biden said he wants “companies to take responsibility for the content they spread.”
Republicans tend to see Section 230 reform as an opportunity to counter a perceived
bias against promoting conservative viewpoints. Tech companies say they make content-
moderation decisions without regard to political views.
Online competition, another area Mr. Biden highlighted, was the focus of bipartisan
legislation that tech companies successfully fended off during the last Congress. Those
bills face a high hurdle because the Republicans who now control the House, including
Speaker Kevin McCarthy, have criticized them in the past.
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