TheVoiceOfJoyce Thank you, Senators Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren for proposing the Digital Consumer Protection Commission Act. Finally, Americans will control our own Data and Big Tech will be accountable for assuring our data security. Surveillance Capitalism will get guardrails, regulations and fines, similar to the EU’s GDPR’s. Why are Regulations necessary? Do you want your health, loans and resumes controlled by a third unaccountable party, or do you want to control your data and ensure your child’s safety from predators? Not convinced of the necessity for regulation, watch “Black Mirror on Netflix Season 6, Episode 1. And don’t forget the latest Tom Cruise film , “Dead Reckoning”, a deep dive into ultimate digital power, using CGI ( Computer Generated Imaging & ChatGPT) . This Mission Impossible had me gripping my seat for almost 3 hours, as I sat mesmerized, watching the non stop action! 💪🏼

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www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opinion/lindsey-graham-elizabeth-warren-big-tech-regulation.html

Our legislation would guarantee common-sense safeguards for everyone who uses tech platforms. Families would have the right to protect their children from sexual exploitation, cyberbullying and deadly drugs. Certain digital platforms have promoted the sexual abuse and exploitation of children, suicidal ideation and eating disorders or done precious little to combat these evils; our bill would require Big Tech to mitigate such harms and allow families to seek redress if they do not.

Americans deserve to know how their data is collected and used and to control who can see it. They deserve the freedom to opt out of targeted advertising. And they deserve the right to go online without, say, some A.I. tool’s algorithm denying them a loan based on their race or politics. If our legislation is enacted, platforms would face consequences for suppressing speech in violation of their own terms of service. The commission would have the flexibility and agility to develop more expertise and respond to new risks, like those posed by generative A.I.

Our bill would set clear rules for tech companies and impose real consequences for companies that break the law. For the giant companies, anticompetitive practices — like exploiting market dominance, tying the sale of one product to another, charging customers different prices for the same product and preventing employees from working for competitors — would be prohibited. The bill would set a high bar for mergers and acquisitions by dominant Big Tech platforms and make it possible to block and reverse harmful deals.

Reining in tech giants will be hard, but it’s a fight worth fighting. If we win, Americans finally will have the tools they need to combat many online evils harming their children and ruining lives. And small businesses will have a fighting chance to innovate and compete in a world dominated by tech monopolies.

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