Nobody on Capitol Hill is taking issue with President Joe Biden’s recent calls to hold Big Tech accountable and protect the public’s privacy and children online in his Wall Street Journal opinion piece this past week. But Biden’s words show that he is unconcerned with (or at the very least unaware…
to a vote. But he was noticeably silent and absent. The timing of his piece now suggests his interest in Big Tech reform is purely political and not sincere.
Biden’s piece also fails to recognize the ongoing legislative efforts on the Hill. In fact, his comments now may actually hurt rather than help a rare bipartisan moment in Congress succeed. There has been increasing bipartisan agreement and momentum on both sides in the past few years to address Big Tech’s harms to children and to pass privacy legislation.
But if Biden tries to turn the issue into a political football, if his White House tries to seize control, it will derail the progress that’s been made. He very well may end up driving a wedge between the GOP-led House and the Democratic-controlled Senate, and then nothing will get done. To give a brief history, Congress started debating online privacy as early as the 105th Congress, when it first passed the Child Online Privacy Protection Act in 1998 to protect online privacy for children under 13. In 2013, the House Energy and Commerce Committee convened the first bipartisan congressional privacy working group. Ever since, in each Congress, there have been hearings and proposals around privacy from both sides.
It is also important to note that while Biden is now allegedly stepping out to champion this issue, when he became president, progress on the child protection and privacy fronts actually slowed. The Federal Trade Commission under Lina Khan shifted focus away from safety and privacy. While the Trump FTC took actions against
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