WaPo: Big Tech trying to ‘weaponize’ U.S. trade talks, Democrats warn

Big Tech trying to ‘weaponize’ U.S. trade talks, Democrats warn
 
Big Tech trying to ‘weaponize’ U.S. trade talks, Democrats warn
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and other Democrats are voicing concern about industry influence in trade talks. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)

A group of prominent Democratic lawmakers is urging the Biden administration to reject efforts by Big Tech to influence U.S. trade talks, warning that industry groups are trying to co-opt negotiations to evade regulations both at home and abroad. 

In a letter Friday to the Commerce Department and the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) and other lawmakers sounded the alarm on what they called a push to “tie Congress’s and regulators’ hands” in its ongoing negotiations over Indo-Pacific trade.

If successful, the tech giants may be able to dodge rules targeting anti-competitive conduct in the sector by claiming those policies constitute “illegal trade discrimination,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter, shared exclusively with The Technology 202. 

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