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It’s not every day that we see two U.S. senators from opposite sides of the political spectrum say what we’ve all been thinking about Big Tech.

As Senators Elizabeth Warren and Lindsey Graham wrote in the New York Times:

“Enough is enough. It’s time to rein in Big Tech. And we can’t do it with a law that only nibbles around the edges of the problem… Congress is too slow, it lacks the tech expertise… Meaningful change — the change worth engaging every member of Congress to fight for — is structural.” [1]

That structural change they’re talking about is the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act. This is bipartisan legislation to create a new agency to rein in the unchecked power of giants like Meta, Google, Amazon, and Apple. Join us in supporting the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act. Add your name: Congress must take bold action to protect consumers and ensure that Big Tech companies are held accountable for their actions.

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The Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act would establish a new regulatory agency tasked with overseeing major tech giants such as Facebook, Google, and Amazon. This regulator's four core objectives would be:

Transparency: Mandate transparent terms of service and content moderation policies for dominant platforms while granting consumers the right to appeal violations, including failure to remove harmful content like child sexual abuse materials (CSAM).
Competition: Prohibit abuses of dominance, including self-preferencing, tying arrangements, predispute arbitration agreements, class-action waivers, noncompete agreements, and no-poach agreements by Big Tech firms. This would prohibit conflicts of interest like Amazon owning its marketplace and competing on that platform.
Privacy: Guarantee users the right to access their personal data and to know when their personal data is collected and processed.
National Security: Mandate dominant platforms be either owned by U.S. citizens or have a U.S. subsidiary, while also imposing restrictions on data processing in certain countries and mandating the identification of bots on the platforms.

Add your name to the petition calling on Congress to pass the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act and do more to hold Big Tech companies accountable.

Your support is crucial in this fight to protect your digital rights, level the playing field, and safeguard consumer privacy. Together, we can send a clear message to Congress that it's time for meaningful change, and the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act is a critical first step forward.

Thanks for speaking out,

Nicole Gill
Co-founder and Executive Director
Accountable Tech

1. The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opinion/lindsey-graham-elizabeth-warren-big-tech-regulation.html

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