Barr sought to unify a room that convened just a few hours after the Democrats announced their articles of impeachment. He focused on the power of big technology, while defending the ability of current U.S. law to regulate those companeis.
have wide-ranging impact on the everyday lives of many Americans. They also offer their product free, complicating a U.S. tradition of judging whether something is a monopoly by its impact on prices.which she claims would drastically change the antitrust policy in the U.S
"It's become clear that not every problem related to online platforms comes within the reach of antitrust laws. Some have therefore proposed expanding the antitrust laws to reaching other non-economic harms. Drastically reinventing the antitrust laws, however, is neither easy nor advisable," Barr said.
Barr listed a number of issues that fall outside of antitrust which his agency would look at tackling: privacy, transparency, consumer fraud child exploitation or public safety. Section 230 provides internet companies legal immunity for their users' content and also allows them to moderate users' content with impunity. While tech companies have argued the law, enacted in the 1990s, is still necessary for their continued innovation and ability to remove harmful content from their sites, some lawmakers have contended it now provides too broad of a shield to dominant platforms.
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