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- 19:07, 22 April 2022 Big Tech and China (hist | edit) [7,218 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Apple is deeply embedded in China, manufacturing most of its products there and conceding to demands from the Chinese government to censor content. * Apple has been manufacturing in China since 2001, with most iPhones, iPads, and Macs now manufacturing there. * China is Apple’s third-largest revenue market, and Tim Cook has gone to great lengths to cultivate a positive relationship with Xi, making frequent visits to China and meeting with top leaders. * Apple has in...") Tag: Visual edit
- 15:35, 22 April 2022 Antitrust Reform and National Security Pushback (hist | edit) [4,159 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "As antitrust reform has advanced, former National Security figures that have clear conflicts of interest have been called in to pushback. * A letter was written to the Congressional members by 12 former Security figures. According to Politico all 12 have ties to Big Tech.<ref>https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/22/former-security-officials-antitrust-tech-ties-513657</ref> * Former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, who was instrumental in putting together th...") Tag: Visual edit
- 01:52, 18 March 2022 ACT - The App Association (hist | edit) [1,148 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Apple Funded ACT Pushed Apple's Agenda, Causing An Alternative App Developer Association To Be Created Specifically To Avoid The Conflict Of Interest ** Apple funded the ACT- The App Association.<ref>https://actonline.org/about/</ref> ** ACT attacked the Supreme Court's decision on Apple versus Pepper, taking Apple's side in the case. *** ACT took Apple's side in the Supreme Court decision Apple versus Pepper, arguing the decision "robbed developers of their autonomy a...") Tag: Visual edit
- 01:09, 18 March 2022 Chamber of Progress (hist | edit) [1,056 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Chamber of Progress was formed in 2021 by Google’s former top lobbyist, with backing from Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook. The group was formed to back key pieces of the progressive agenda, as a way to get back in lawmakers’ good graces and help fend off tech regulation.<ref>National Journal, 3/30/21</ref> * Chamber of Progress was called out by both sides of the aisle for being a “transparent ploy” to bamboozle lawmakers and camouflage Big Tech’s true int...") Tag: Visual edit
- 01:06, 18 March 2022 Facebook's Oversight Board (hist | edit) [1,408 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "*Facebook’s Oversight Board has been called out as a “toothless” PR stunt that the company used to “[co-opt] advocates and academics who would otherwise be more critical of the company.” In 2020, Facebook executives announced a new Oversight Board, which would be tasked with issuing recommendations on controversial content moderation decisions.<ref>https://oversightboard.com/news/327923075055291-announcing-the-first-members-of-the-oversight-board/</ref> Referre...") Tag: Visual edit
- 00:59, 15 March 2022 Links to Americans for Tax Reform and ALEC (hist | edit) [15,635 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''As evident by recent case in North Dakota'' * 2021: A bill introduced in the North Dakota legislature sought to crack down on Apple and Google’s anticompetitive conduct in their app stores. * New York Times reported that Koch Network Group Americans for Prosperity sided with Apple and Google against the app store antitrust bill in North Dakota. * ALEC lobbied North Dakota legislators to vote against the app store antitrust bill. * Americans for Tax Reform lobbied A...") Tag: Visual edit
- 14:51, 18 February 2022 Big Tech Influence Maps (hist | edit) [198 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "thumb") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:20, 16 February 2022 Google Operating as a Monopoly (hist | edit) [11,044 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* U.S. AND OVERSEAS REGULATORS ALLEGED GOOGLE WAS A MONOPOLY ** In October 2020, the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division sued Google, alleging the company was an illegal monopoly. Google maintained monopolies in search and search advertising and “deprives rivals of the quality, reach, and financial position necessary to mount any meaningful competition to Google’s longstanding monopolies,” wrote the Justice Department. ** Before the Justice Department’s law...") Tag: Visual edit
- 19:25, 16 February 2022 Facebook Is Building Another Monopoly In "The Metaverse" (hist | edit) [9,178 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Facebook Now Has A Dominate Market Share In Virtual Reality Thanks To Its 2014Acquisition Of Oculus And Its Quest Headset ** In December 2020, Bloomberg reported that “Facebook is the world’s biggest virtual-reality hardware maker thanks to its 2014 acquisition of Oculus for $2 billion.” ** In January 2022, Bloomberg reported that Facebook’s Oculus “dominates the standalone virtual reality headset space. The company’s headsets made up 75% of global shipment...") Tag: Visual edit
- 18:48, 15 February 2022 Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) (hist | edit) [6,104 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* PPI was funded in part by Facebook, Google and Amazon. The Washington Examiner noted that Big Tech’s contributions to organizations like PPI were “To defend themselves from public scrutiny and regulation.” * Three of PPI’s board members, Bernard McKay, Bill Budinger and Chris Kelly, were closely aligned with Big Tech. Bernard Kelly was a board member for the Computers and Communications Industry Association as well as a board member at the Information Technolog...") Tag: Visual edit
- 18:47, 15 February 2022 Links to Americas for Tax Reform and ALEC (hist | edit) [12,676 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Active lobbying in North Dakota * 2021: A bill introduced in the North Dakota legislature sought to crack down on Apple and Google’s anticompetitive conduct in their app stores. * New York Times reported that Koch Network Group Americans for Prosperity sided with Apple and Google against the app store antitrust bill in North Dakota. * ALEC lobbied North Dakota legislators to vote against the app store antitrust bill. * Americans for Tax Reform lobbied Arizona legisl...") Tag: Visual edit
- 18:44, 15 February 2022 Information Technology And Innovation Foundation (ITIF) (hist | edit) [1,120 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* ITIF is a Big Tech funded think tank that often reflects the industry’s viewpoints. Its website says it received funding in excess of 5K in the most recent fiscal year from Amazon, Apple, Google and Facebook. * ITIF opposed Lina Khan’s confirmation to be FTC chair and Jonathan Kanter’s confirmation to lead DOJ’s antitrust division. * ITIF opposed the bipartisan Senate bill cracking down on self-preferencing and issued a report saying the practice was actually g...") Tag: Visual edit
- 18:43, 15 February 2022 Global Antitrust Institute (hist | edit) [814 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Global Antitrust Institute At George Mason University received at least a combined total of $725,000 from Google and Amazon alone, $500,000 of which was donated in 2017 – 2018. Facebook also disclosed working with The Global Antitrust Institute in 2019. * Global Antitrust Institute's leader Joshua Wright was a former Federal Trade Commissioner and previously worked at a lobbying firm hired by Google. * The Institute held seminars and training for public regulators an...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:37, 14 February 2022 Financial Innovation Now (FIN) (hist | edit) [1,052 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Financial Innovation Now is a coalition of tech companies operating in the financial services sector. Its members include Amazon, Google and Facebook. * The group was formed by Brian Peters, a lobbyist for the Franklin Square Group who is registered to lobby the federal government for Amazon, Google and Facebook. * Financial Innovation Now was formed in 2015 to push back against calls by the big banks for regulation of tech firms getting into the financial services ind...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:37, 14 February 2022 Connected Commerce Council (hist | edit) [2,659 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Connected Commerce Council (3C) is a small business front group for Big Tech. The group counts Amazon, Facebook and Google as partners. * The group was formed by Jake Ward, who had previously founded the Application Developers Alliance, another group which counts Google and Facebook as members. * 3C’s tax filings show its address is listed as the office of the Washington DC lobbying firm it pays to lobby the federal government on its behalf. * Connected Commerce Coun...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:37, 14 February 2022 Chamber Progress (hist | edit) [986 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Chamber of Progress was formed in 2021 by Google’s former top lobbyist, with backing from Apple, Google, Amazon and Facebook. The group was formed to back key pieces of the progressive agenda, as a way to get back in lawmakers’ good graces and help fend off tech regulation. * Chamber of Progress was called out by both sides of the aisle for being a “transparent ploy” to bamboozle lawmakers and camouflage Big Tech’s true intentions. * Chamber of Progress defen...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:36, 14 February 2022 Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) (hist | edit) [1,910 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) is comprised of, and funded by, Big Tech companies including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google. * CCIA works to defend Big Tech companies from criticism: ** CCIA created separate organizations to advocate for Big Tech through researchpapers and communications support. These include Springboard and the Disruptive Competition Project. As the House sought to pass antitrust legislation against Big Tech, these orga...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:36, 14 February 2022 Download Fairness Coalition (hist | edit) [2,515 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* In 2019, Apple Disclosed It Was A Member Of The Download Fairness Coalition, Which Apple Defined As A "Trade Association," But The Organization Was Previously Housed In The Lobbying Firm Signal Consulting's Office. * The Download Fairness Coalition's Website is defunct as of April 2021; however archived website records listed Apple, Amazon, and prominent trade association TechNet were members in 2019. ** Amazon did disclose supporting the Download Fairness Coalition on...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:35, 14 February 2022 American Edge (hist | edit) [3,594 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* In 2020 Facebook Launched American Edge, A Dark-Money Astroturf Group Designed To Combat Potential Federal Regulations. * American Edge obscured its donors by forming as a nonprofit, then launching an affiliated social welfare group that could legally push political messages through advertising and other means. * American Edge was formed to oppose antitrust legislation and promote big tech interests amid growing scrutiny of U.S. tech companies and political pressure t...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:35, 14 February 2022 New York Coalition for Independent Work (hist | edit) [1,285 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* In December 2020, TechNet And Internet Association (whose membership included Amazon) announced they were working with the New York Coalition for Independent Work. ** The Coalition claimed to work on behalf of app-based contractors to defend their right to flexibility while also working to provide them with benefits. The Coalition ran Letters to the Editors and Op-eds in local newspapers supposedly written by ride-sharing workers defending the flexibility of gig-based...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:35, 14 February 2022 Portable Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA) (hist | edit) [1,683 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Portable Rechargeable Battery Association Counted Apple And Amazon As Members. ** PRBA has not registered federal lobbying activity since 2013. ** PRBA hosted annual member regulatory meetings, including one in November 2020 that included Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency officials as featured speakers, effectively giving its members direct access. ** PRBA submitted public comments to federal regulatory bodies. ** PRBA's Executive Directo...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:34, 14 February 2022 Internet Association (hist | edit) [749 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Google, Facebook, And Amazon Were Members Of Internet Association. ** Amazon disclosed it contributed $30,000 To Internet Association's California PAC in 2020. ** Internet Association reported spending more than $13.9 million in federal lobbying over a 7-year period between 2013 – 2020. ** Internet Association alleged attempts to regulate the sharing economy – like Amazon Flex – were a tactic by "legacy corporations" to "stifle" the competition.") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:34, 14 February 2022 Developers Alliance (hist | edit) [1,482 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Facebook And Google Were Members Of The Developers Alliance, Which Claimed To Represent Some 70,000 App Developers. ** Developers Alliance spent $1,018,100 on federal lobbying between 2013 – 2020. $125,000 of that spending came in 2019 – 2020. * Developers Alliance argued that traditional market risks were irrelevant in digital platform competition and that consumers benefit from a "functioning market" in which Apps were channeled into limited, controlled platform...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:33, 14 February 2022 Consumer Technology Association (CTA) (hist | edit) [823 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Consumer Technology Association (CTA) Counted All Four – Amazon, Facebook, Apple, And Alphabet (Google) As Members. ** CTA spent $10,370,000 on federal lobbying in 2019 – 2020 alone. ** CTA fought Right to Repair laws that were under consideration in 25 state legislatures. Right to Repair proposals required tech manufacturers to provide independent repair shops access to parts and schematics to fix devices like computers and phones. *** CTA argued such policies thr...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:30, 14 February 2022 NetChoice (hist | edit) [1,268 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* NetChoice Attacked Lawsuits That Directly And Indirectly Threatened Organization Member Google ** NetChoice aggressively defended Apple's app store business model, a business model that mirrored organization member Google's app store. *** Google is a member of NetChoice. *** NetChoice aggressively defended Apple's app store business model. NetChoice Vice President described the apple app store as "an innovative ecosystem that helped create the hypercompetitive app econ...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:29, 14 February 2022 Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) (hist | edit) [1,420 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Apple, Amazon, And Google Were Members Of Electronic Transactions Association (ETA), A Trade Association That Spent Millions In Federal Lobbying. ** In 7 years, the Association reported $6,720,000 in lobbying costs -- $1,120,000 of that came in just 2020. ** ETA reported lobbying on H.R. 4813 (Keep Big Tech Out Of Finance Act), which sought to bar Google, Facebook, Apple, and Amazon from providing banking services. ** ETAPAC contributed $96,300 to Federal House and Sen...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:29, 14 February 2022 ACT - the App Association (hist | edit) [1,148 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Apple Funded ACT Pushed Apple's Agenda, Causing An Alternative App Developer Association To Be Created Specifically To Avoid The Conflict Of Interest ** Apple funded the ACT- The App Association. ** ACT attacked the Supreme Court's decision on Apple versus Pepper, taking Apple's side in the case. *** ACT took Apple's side in the Supreme Court decision Apple versus Pepper, arguing the decision "robbed developers of their autonomy and independence by categorizing them as...") Tag: Visual edit
- 21:28, 14 February 2022 TechNet (hist | edit) [1,277 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* TechNet Functioned As A "Political Shield" For Members, Including Google And Apple, To Push Their Agenda ** TechNet is a trade association for technology CEOs and executives, including Google and Apple. ** TechNet held annual lobbying conferences so members, including Google and Apple, could push their agenda on politicians. ** Wired on TechNet: "Tech's most powerful advocacy group." ** Wired: TechNet "has grown to become the valley's strongest fundraising network and...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:54, 11 February 2022 Google and Consumers (hist | edit) [1,297 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with " YouTube and YouTube Kids * Wojcicki and YouTube have faced years of criticism for failing to protect kids. Two months after the 2015 launch of YouTube Kids, a platform marketed as kid appropriate, advocates complained to the FTC that the platform contained sexual content, promotions of alcohol, and illegal ads. * In 2017, YouTube faced complaints of violent content on YouTube Kids and exploitative content on its main platform. In 2019, despite promises from YouTube to...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:53, 11 February 2022 Google and Small Businesses (hist | edit) [698 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Google uses its monopoly to serve ads and its own content, gradually increasing the cost of ads and making them unaffordable to small businesses, whose search results suffer. Additionally, fake listings from Google Maps have made it harder to find legitimate small businesses. * Facebook, Instagram, and Google’s YouTube have created arbitrary and discriminatory standards around sexuality and sexual content. This has led to LGBTQ accounts on YouTube being demonetized a...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:38, 11 February 2022 Google and Koch Connections (hist | edit) [1,629 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Google and Koch entities, mainly the Charles Koch Foundation, fund many of the same institutions. ** In 2020, Google listed itself as being a member of 28 different policy organizations that have also received Koch funding. ** Many of these mutually funded institutions, including the Buckeye Institute, the Federalist Society, and Taxpayers Protection Alliance, have taken far-right stances. ** Google has also previously listed itself as a member of 13 different policy...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:36, 11 February 2022 Google Disinformation (hist | edit) [2,911 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with " '''YouTube spreads disinformation''' * YouTube’s algorithm put equal weight on climate science videos and climate denial videos and continued to serve up new climate misinformation to those who viewed similar content. Though Google took steps in October 2021 to demonetize climate denial YouTube videos, it still allowed climate denial content if it was presented as “public discourse.” * YouTube hosted thousands of videos that pushed vaccine misinformation, one of...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:35, 11 February 2022 Google and the Auto Industry (hist | edit) [808 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Google had the most investment in autonomous vehicles of any Big Tech company. * VSI Labs said “no company has more in the game than Google (Waymo) with massive fleets, deployments, investments and software expertise.” * Google’s Android operating system was widespread in cars, with a Berylls analysis showing that within a few years of 2020, Google’s smartphone mirroring extended to some 80% of global car sales. * Waymo, formerly Google’s self-driving...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:35, 11 February 2022 Google and National Security (hist | edit) [1,537 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* In December 2020, it was reported that Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt made personnel recommendations for the Defense and State Departments. '''Google and China''' * Google executives wanted a relationship and further cooperation with China, saying it was a “wonderful, innovative market.” Google Sundar Pichai said Google needed to “think hard” about whether it would continue to work in China and look at the “long term.” Jeff Dean, head of Google AI, ho...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:33, 11 February 2022 Google and Taxes (hist | edit) [770 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* In 2017, Google Moved $22.7 Billion Through A Dutch Shell Company In Bermuda, Where Companies Pay No Income Tax, To Reduce Its Foreign Tax Bill. ** The Tax Strategy Was Phased Out Beginning In 2014 In Response To Pressure From The EU And The United States, Two Regions That Were Cheated By This Tax Advantage, Ending Google’s Tax Advantages In 2020. * 2010 To 2019: Google Paid $27.9 Billion In Income Taxes On $176.6 Billion In Profits After Taking In $647.7 Billion I...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:15, 11 February 2022 Facebook and Taxes (hist | edit) [913 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Facebook Avoided Paying Taxes by Shifting the Rights to It Online Platform and Marketing Intangibles to Ireland, a Tax Haven used by other Big Tech Companies. * Facebook Faced Scrutiny For Underpaying Taxes By $3 To $5 Billion By Undervaluing The Worth Of Its Intellectual Property When Transferring It To Ireland. The Institute On Taxation And Economic Police Reported That Facebook “Led The Pack In Exploiting The Stock Option Loophole,” Which Allowed Companies To De...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:14, 11 February 2022 Facebook and National Security (hist | edit) [624 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* 75% of social media usage was through Facebook or one of its subsidiary platforms. Facebook and its subsidiaries accounted for 75% of all time spent on social media, with roughly two billion people interacting with their platform every day. Facebook’s monopoly in the social media space meant it had the personal data of nearly 2.8 billion people, which was more than a quarter of the world’s population. Because of their dominance of social media Facebook captured 50%...") Tag: Visual edit
- 20:13, 11 February 2022 Facebook and Disinformation (hist | edit) [2,211 bytes] Btw admin (talk | contribs) (Created page with "* Laura Edelson Said Her And Her Team Used Their Research To study Facebook’s “apparent amplification of partisan misinformation.” Edelson and her team found that Facebook users engaged with misinformation more than other kinds of information on the platform. The team’s findings led Edelson to believe we were “racing against the clock” to understand how disinformation spread on social media. Edelson called understanding how misinformation spread on social med...") Tag: Visual edit
