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  • 08:36, 17 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs deleted page File:BTWikiLogo2.png
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  • 21:02, 16 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Ties to the Biden's National Security Council (Created page with "* The influence of Big Tech stretches throughout the Biden administration’s National Security Council (NSC). ** As President Biden prepared to take office, Big Tech executives pushed personnel recommendations for senior national security roles in the administration. *** Reuters: “Google’s former Chief Executive Eric Schmidt, a billionaire who is a Silicon Valley titan, has been making personnel recommendations for appointments to the Department of Defense.” *** R...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:20, 16 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Google Operating as a Monopoly (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Facebook Is Building Another Monopoly In "The Metaverse" (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
  • 19:01, 15 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page BigTechWiki:About (Created page with "BigTechWiki is a project of the Tech Oversight Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to holding Big Tech accountable by urging lawmakers to support comprehensive antitrust legislation. For more information or to support our work, visit https://techoversight.org/.")
  • 18:52, 15 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page American Bar Association (Created page with " ''Presidential transitions using the ABA where captured by industry'' * There were 22 lawyers, professors and economists who served on the American Bar Association Antitrust Section presidential transition report task force. * The American Bar Association Antitrust Section’s transition report task force leadership included William MacLeod and Richard Parker, two corporate antitrust lawyers. ** William MacLeod chaired Kelley Drye’s Antitrust and Competition Practic...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:51, 15 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Governors and Attorney General Associations of Both Parties (Created page with "* Amazon, Google, and Facebook have donated at least a combined total of $3,422,000 to just the Governors And Attorneys Generals Associations of both parties: ** 2017 – 2018: Amazon Donated $375,748 Between The DGA, RGA, DAGA, And RAGA. ** 2007 – 2018: Google Donated Over $1.5 Million Between The DGA, RGA, DAGA, RAGA. ** 2009 – 2018: Facebook Donated Over $1 Million Between The DGA, RGA, DAGA, RAGA.") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:48, 15 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Links to Americas for Tax Reform and ALEC (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Information Technology And Innovation Foundation (ITIF) (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Global Antitrust Institute (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
  • 18:43, 15 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page New American Foundation (Created page with "* New American Foundation received more than $21 million from Google. * In 2017, New American chastised its in-house Open Markets Institute for praising a European antitrust settlement against Google – a move that backfired. * New America's board included a bipartisan mix of former elected and federal officials, including former New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez and former Pennsylvania Congressman Chris Carney. * Open Markets Institute subsequently split off from New...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 18:43, 15 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Future Privacy Forum (Created page with "* The Future Privacy Forum received funding from Google, Amazon, and Facebook. * The Forum backed the recent passage of the Virginia Consumer Data Privacy Act. ** The bill passed with bipartisan support but was criticized as too "industry-friendly," as it protected big tech from ordinary Virginians filing lawsuits regarding their data use and sale. ** An estimated 70 percent of all internet traffic data flows through servers in Virginia, giving the bill nationwide implic...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 00:31, 15 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page MediaWiki:Sidebar (Created page with " * SEARCH * navigation * Big Tech **Big Tech, Lobbying, and Proxy Organizations Funded By Big Tech ***Trade/Proxy Organizations funded by Big Tech ****TechNet ****ACT - the App Association ****Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) ****NetChoice ****Consumer Technology Association (CTA) ****Developers Alliance ****Internet Association ****Portable Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA) ****New York Coalition for Independent Work **...")
  • 21:37, 14 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Financial Innovation Now (FIN) (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Connected Commerce Council (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Chamber Progress (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Download Fairness Coalition (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page American Edge (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page New York Coalition for Independent Work (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Portable Rechargeable Battery Association (PRBA) (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Internet Association (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Developers Alliance (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Consumer Technology Association (CTA) (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page NetChoice (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page ACT - the App Association (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page TechNet (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
  • 21:02, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Progress on App Store Competition Issues (Created page with "* Apple has faced international scrutiny over their in-app fees and ban on alternate payment systems in their App Store. In August 2021, South Korea passed a law to rein in their monopolies which experts believed could serve as a model for other countries seeking to crack down on the companies. The law would bar Apple and Google from requiring in-app payment systems and exclusivity with developers. ** Following South Korea’s passage of the law, Reuters reported that In...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 21:00, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Klobuchar-Grassley's, American Innovation & Choice Online Act (AICO) (Created page with "American Innovation & Choice Online Act (AICO) Support * AICO was introduced in the Senate with strong bipartisan support: ** Republican Grassley and Democrat Klobuchar led the bill. ** The bill’s original cosponsors included 5 Democrats and 5 Republicans. ** Republican Rep. Ken Buck said claims that the bills were “democratic bills” were “false.” * In Sep. 2021, a bipartisan majority of state AGs called for an update to the nation’s antitrust laws and pass...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:59, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Biden Administration Executive Order on Competition (Created page with "Biden Executive Order on Competition Met With Strong, Widespread Praise and Support * Farmers and agriculture advocates including The American Farm Bureau Federation, Farm Family Action Alliance, and the U.S. Cattlemen’s Association praised Biden’s Executive Order on competition for taking on Big Ag and leveling the playing field for independent farmers. * Advocates also highlighted the right-to-repair measure in the Order, which will disrupt repair monopolies that...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:58, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Jonathan Kanter and the DOJ (Created page with "Support For The Nomination of Jonathan Kanter As Assistant Attorney General For The Antitrust Division * President Joe Biden’s nomination of Jonathan Kanter has been met favorably from Democratic lawmakers, journalists, progressive advocates, and even some notable conservatives: * Kanter largely sailed through his confirmation hearing October 6, where he was met with positive bipartisan praise. * Kanter’s nomination was endorsed by Democratic lawmakers in both house...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:57, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Big Tech Attempt to Poach FTC Staff (Created page with "The FTC Is Hiring Up for a Regulatory Revolution as Big Tech Tries to Poach Its Staff * In 2021, Big Tech has continued to poach FTC staff. LinkedIn and Google searches identified at least 11 FTC attorneys who left for Big Tech companies, law firms representing Big Tech, or Big Tech-funded groups. * From 2015 to 2018, more than 40 FTC staff left to work for tech companies. * Under Lina Khan’s leadership, the FTC has scaled up hiring, posting more than a dozen openings...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:56, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Small Business Support for Lina Khan (Created page with "* In August 2021, Small Business Majority, an organization representing more than 85,000 small businesses nationwide, was part of a coalition of groups that praised the Biden Administration for appointing Lina Khan to a key role in the administration. * In November 2021, Small Business Majority defended Khan against attacks from the US Chamber of Commerce and praised her for defending small businesses from the chronic abuses of monopolies that the US chamber represents....") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:55, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Lina Khan and the FTC (Created page with " Lina Khan is a widely hailed advocate and legal scholar who has redefined antitrust policy and created a clear vision for a modernized FTC. * In 2018, Politico Magazine’s 50 Influential Idea’s List described Khan as the “the leader of the new school of thought” that recognized tech monopolies as the facilitators of widespread societal harms with consequences beyond labor and consumer exploitation. * In 2021 Khan made Time 100’s Influential People list. Senat...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:54, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Google and Consumers (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 Btw admin talk contribs created page Google and Small Businesses (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
  • 20:51, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Sundar Pichai (Created page with "* After the New York Times reported that Google had protected at least three Google executives with sexual harassment complaints against them in 2018, Pichai acknowledged that 48 people had been fired for sexual misconduct in the past two years. After employees argued that his statement failed to take true accountability, Pichai apologized for his initial statement, which “wasn’t enough.” * Pichai promised to support a November 2018 employee walkout, but after the...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:49, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Adam Kovacevich (Created page with "* 3/29/21: Former Google Public Policy Head Adam Kovacevich launched Chamber of Progress, which he said was a center-left coalition that would focus on advocating for progressive policies. * Chamber of Progress’ initial partners companies included Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, Zillow, DoorDash, Instacart and other big tech companies. * Adam Kovacevich led Google’s public policy strategy and external affairs team for 15 years. ** Wall Street Journal Reporte...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:48, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Jeff Dean (Created page with "* During high school, Dean developed software that allowed epidemiologists doing field work to analyze their data sets “26 times faster” than what professionals were using at the time. Dean’s software was adopted by the Center For Disease Control and translated into 13 languages. * Dean joined Google in the early 2000s and helped write the code that allowed Google to double its computing capacity. Dean was described as a “leader” during that time. * Dean helped...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:46, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Susan Wojcicki (Created page with "* Wojcicki was Google’s 16th employee, and Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded the company out of her garage. She is very close to Page, which ensures her job security, and her sister was married to Brin. * Wojcicki started out working on Google’s ad programs, developing AdWords, overseeing Google Video, and supporting the acquisition of YouTube and DoubleClick. She also advocated in favor of serving ads across Google platforms based on user searches. * Unlike other t...") Tag: Visual edit
  • 20:44, 11 February 2022 Btw admin talk contribs created page Ben Gomes (Created page with "* Gomes was known for helping the early Google team make major decisions ** Gomes joined Google in 2002. ** Gomes was called Google’s “Search Czar” and considered “one of the founders of Google search.” ** During the early days of Google, Marissa Mayer described Gomes as Google’s “diplomat” who could “help build bridges” between the personalities and opinions among Google executives. ** Gomes was the head of Google search from 2008-2020 and helped cre...") Tag: Visual edit
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