US Voters Support Breaking Up Big Tech: Poll

US Voters Support Breaking Up Big Tech: Poll​

US Voters Support Breaking Up Big Tech: Poll

A new poll found that Americans support stricter regulations against Big Tech companies. A survey by Data Progress found that a majority of likely voters supported breaking up massive technology corporations into smaller...

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A new poll found that Americans support stricter regulations against Big Tech companies, Axios reported Friday.

A survey by Data Progress, a left-leaning polling firm, found that a majority of likely voters supported breaking up massive technology corporations into smaller companies, Axios said.

Democrats and Republicans each responded similarly, with 57% saying they supported breaking up Big Tech, according to Axios.

Twenty-two percent of Democrats answered "strongly supporting" and 35% "somewhat supporting" breaking up the large tech companies such as Amazon and Google.

Republicans responded with 34% "strongly supporting" and 23% "somewhat supporting."

Axios said the survey found that an overwhelming percentage of Americans are concerned about online content affecting young people. A total of 82% of respondents were somewhat or very concerned about children being radicalized by such content, and 76% were somewhat or very concerned about becoming addicted to online platforms.

The poll showed 90% of people were very or somewhat concerned about data breaches. Axios also reported the survey discovered broad support for new rules affecting social media companies, with equal support from Republicans and Democrats'

Axios said the Data Progress poll did not ask questions regarding the issue of alleged social media bias against conservatives.

The survey results were reported as Congress discussed new antitrust proposals that would affect Big Tech companies, and days after Lina Khan, a critic of tech monopolies, was sworn in as chair of the Federal Trade Commission.

Last week, lawmakers unveiled sweeping antitrust measures aimed at Big Tech firms such as Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google in what might be the most ambitious effort in decades to break corporate monopolies.

A bipartisan group of House members introduced five separate bills that propose changes. The proposed legislation could reshape the largest U.S. technology and entertainment companies, and force an overhaul of their business practices.

The bills follow a nearly year-and-a-half-long investigation by the House of Representatives' antitrust subcommittee, which focused on competition in the digital marketplace, CNET reported.

House Republicans also are strengthening their efforts to root out Big Tech's connections to China by calling for greater transparency from tech companies about whether Americans' data is stored on Chinese systems.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., is calling on Big Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google to be transparent with their users on that vulnerability.

Big Tech’s ability to censor users also has been a major concern, especially among Republicans.

In an interview last month with Newsmax, former President Donald Trump expressed support for states such as Florida and Texas taking on Big Tech censorship since lawmakers were unwilling to do so.

Appearing on "Cortes & Pellegrino," Trump told host Steve Cortes he would have liked to have seen action taken on Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 that provides social media platforms immunity for things users say on those platforms.

Data Progress conducted the survey of 1,203 likely voters May 14-17. Results were shared exclusively with Axios.

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[Dagobert]

And it will never happen because anyone genuinely trying to do it will be massacred by the media as it poses a threat to their own power.

 

[Radical Cadre]

EMP BIG TECH'S DATA CENTERS EVERY FIVE YEARS.

 

[Bongocat]

And it will never happen because anyone genuinely trying to do it will be massacred by the media as it poses a threat to their own power.

Would it actually matter at this point? Even among the so-called competition, they all have the same opinions, same terms of service and take all the same actions at exactly the same time.

 

[Michael Jacks0n]

Silicon Valley is the de-facto Washington D.C. in today's age, and no one wants to fully come out and admit it.

 

[whatever I feel like]

The thing is, Facebook and Apple aren't actually monopolies. This mad rush to break up "big tech" is losing the nuance that not all of these companies do the same stuff. Facebook is just a website that lots of people use, Google, for most people's purposes, controls what parts of the internet you are allowed to find. And from the right wing perspective, its not these companies causing trouble, its Cloud Flare (since then back on the good guy train?,) Paypal, Mastercard, GoFundMe, etc. Payment processors are the barrier to political competition, not FAANG.

 

[Blamo]

Even if you break it up, what's stopping them from becoming a coalition of smaller companies with overall more value in them? Just like the kids of Standard Oil ended up being?

It is the wrong question to ask. The argument is framed around this issue that won't solve anything.

Only telling them that if they are platforms, they have no right to editorialize the content will work. Because if we have 5 twitters that are banning people the same way is as bad as having 1 twitter that does the same.

As for data collection, the whole way privacy and handling of Data needs to be reconsidered. Yet again breaking up the corporations won't do much here. Of course on the backend it can be perhaps better, but the government helped these corporations to become big in the first place.

 

[Ita Mori]

Social media has no real power. Anyone getting their news and facts from twitter and facebook are lost causes to begin with.
MySpace came and left without any impact. Social media sites can be destroyed as soon as people grow tired of it. It's why the top dogs branch out into other avenues.
While it can be annoying to see the hugbox so one-sided, what does twitter have over you that you can't do without? Facebook doesn't even really care about the U.S since their products like FB itself and Whatsapp are more relevant internationally than in the U.S.

The real issue is the banks and online payment processors. Twitter being full of commie trannies affects nothing in my life. The idea that I can be cancelled to receive/send money online because you don't want the tranny cock is a much more real threat.
The orange retard should've went hard on GFM and Visa for refusing to service Rittenhouse's fundraiser, but he was too busy being mad that Jack might not let him keep his masochist tendencies going by continuing to post on twitter.