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Introduction The 117th Congress featured an unprecedented array of bills aimed at reining in the Big Tech giants that dominate global retail, advertising, transportation, and other sectors. Legislation that would end or mitigate big platforms’ abuses of workers, consumers, and smaller businesses was approved by committees. Lawmakers sought to counter online commercial surveillance and the […]
DOWNLOAD REPORT Washington, D.C. – Big Tech interests have opened a new front in their attack against strong privacy, anti-monopoly and algorithmic transparency policies in the United States and worldwide by trying to hijack trade deals and insert “digital trade” rules that would severely limit, if not outright ban, key aspects of these policies. In […]
Download Report Download Explainer Introduction The 117th Congress featured an unprecedented array of bills aimed at reining in the Big Tech giants that dominate global retail, advertising, transportation, and other sectors. Legislation that would end or mitigate big platforms’ abuses of workers, consumers, and smaller businesses was approved by committees. Lawmakers sought to counter online […]
Unveiling “Digital Trade” Threats to Tech Oversight The largest online platforms, like Google and Amazon, and their myriad lobbying associations and front groups have lobbied to capture trade negotiations to insert binding trade-agreement terms that would derail countries’ online privacy, competition, artificial intelligence, right to repair, civil rights, and other policies. The companies’ goal is […]
A New Analysis of the Annual U.S. Trade Barriers Report Finds Industry Misappropriating Trade Claims to Attack Other Nations’ Competition Policies, Including Some Pending Here Download The Full Report Introduction As digital mega-platforms have continued to grow in size and expand their influence over every aspect of peoples’ public and private lives, U.S. policymakers and […]
by Lori Wallach Welcome to Rethink Trade, where we unpack “trade” policy, law and politics and how it affects your daily life more than you think. Much of what is labeled trade today is not about actual trade stuff, like tariffs or quotas. We’ll reveal how Big Tech, Big Pharma, Wall Street et al. use […]
Accountable Tech | American Economic Liberties Project | American Family Voices | Athena | MoveOn | Public Citizen | Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union/UFCW | Rethink Trade The Honorable Gina RaimondoSecretary of Commerce1401 Constitution Ave. NWWashington, DC 20230 February 3, 2022 Dear Secretary Raimondo:We are a diverse group of organizations concerned about the corrosive […]
Will the WTO get out of the way of global production of COVID-19 vaccines and meds so we can end this pandemic? Whether Big Pharma or humankind will win is the biggest question as the WTO’s major biennial ministerial meeting starts the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. But Big Tech also has a play… More than 120 […]
by Lori Wallach, Director of Rethink Trade This blog is an unusual tribute to one of the Big Tech lobbyists working overtime to insert binding provisions into the Biden administration’s major Asian trade negotiations to undermine efforts by governments worldwide to regulate against Big Tech monopoly, privacy, civil rights, and other abuses. Hats off to […]
