Los Angeles Times
Mark Weinstein op-ed | The law that made the internet is under fire. Here’s how to reform it (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 02/03/2023 - 06:31Brian Merchant | The real aim of big tech’s layoffs: bringing workers to heel (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Tue, 01/31/2023 - 17:00Center for Economic and Policy Research op-ed: Think Big Tech’s thousands of layoffs indicate a coming recession? Think again (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Fri, 01/13/2023 - 05:57Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA) tells colleagues she plans to run for Feinstein’s Senate seat in 2024 (Los Angeles Times)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/12/2023 - 06:28How big tech defeated the biggest antitrust push in decades on Capitol Hill
A passionate and bipartisan legislative effort to rein in the country’s largest technology companies collapsed this week, the victim of an epic lobbying campaign by Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta. The internet titans spent hundreds of millions of dollars, sent their chief executives to Washington, and deployed trade groups and sympathetic scholars to quash two antitrust bills co-sponsored by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, a Minnesota Democrat, and Sen. Charles E. Grassley, an Iowa Republican.