Investigations on Silicon Valley could become more intrusive if Democrats regain full power in Washington
anger over Facebook, echoed in lawmaker reactions to Wednesday’s deal, is the most potent sign yet of the peril Silicon Valley faces if the party regains full power in Washington: Investigations could become more intrusive, and the online industry could face punishments that have never realistically been on the table — including, Chopra suggested, a ban on the kind of behavior-based advertising that supplies Facebook's fortune.
Simons and his two GOP colleagues on the commission called the deal “a complete home run” compared with the uncertainties the agency would have faced from going to court. Slaughter, a one-time aide to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, wanted the agency to file a suit accusing Facebook and Zuckerberg of violating a 2012 privacy agreement with the FTC. The violations included allowing data on up to 87 million users to fall into the hands of Cambridge Analytica, a political data firm that had worked for candidates, including Donald Trump.
Simons, though, offered a spirited defense of the agreement — “It’s just awesome,” he said at one point — considering how the agency’s hands were tied. He pointed to the limits on the agency’s legal authorities and the realities of how the case might have turned out if the FTC couldn’t have reached an agreement with Facebook.Sign Up
Democrats on Capitol Hill have been broadly critical of the deal since its rough outlines first appeared in news stories two weeks ago. Some have focused some of that anger on federal regulators. “I think this is pretty much a failure,” Hawley told POLITICO. “It does nothing to meaningfully change the behavior of the company. It does not restrain executives.”and a point person for the Trump administration in its criticisms of Silicon Valley. Trump and Hawley have argued with minimal evidence that companies like Facebook and Twitter are biased against conservatives.
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