Biden restores internet neutrality and more

The White House has released a “fact sheet” listing the industries and policies that will be affected by a new bill that President Biden is expected to sign. The bill is heavily focused on technology companies.

It includes internet service providers, as Biden encourages the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to restore net neutrality regulations that were rolled back during the previous administration, require providers to list subscription prices, and prevent them from throttling connection speeds.

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The Biden government is backing the right to repair, as the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will have the responsibility to "restrict strong hardware manufacturers from preventing people from using independent repair shops or repairing themselves."

For large tech companies, the Biden government's agenda includes laws that require "greater control of mergers, especially by dominant Internet platforms, with particular attention to emerging competitors, serial mergers, data aggregation, free competition" and the impact on user privacy. ”

Through the FTC, the Biden government plans to impose more regulations on monitoring and data collection, which will affect many of the world's largest technology companies.

In the document, the administration claims that 72 initiatives are being taken to promote competition and increase wages, although it is up to various departments, as well as Congress, to move things forward.

The above promises, of course, seem unrealistic as the opponents are very strong and deeply rooted in the American system. Let's see how Congress will see the bill and whether they will agree on the new reforms.

As for limiting data collection by big tech companies, that's probably easy to explain. Power is in information, and it seems the Biden administration wants Big Data to exist only in the NSA 's massive datacenters.

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