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What powers did they not exert during the Trump administration?

That's exactly my question: are they going to acquire new powers that we didn't know existed?

If anything I feel its more likely that they will face additional scrutiny. My understanding is the Democrats want more anti-trust laws, and are more likely to break up the big tech companies. Not sure how that might affect Twitter, but Apple, Google (Alphabet), Facebook, and Amazon are probably going to face a lot of additional issues.

https://apnews.com/article/technology-50e69e921c6699a3edbd73...

This might have been political posturing. The Obama administration was very cozy with SV and there's significant influence from big tech on Biden's administration[1]. Only time will tell.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/21/big-techs-stealth-push-to-in...

Trump repeatedly chastised them for their censorship policies and the threat of additional legislation was always over their head. Now that the politicians in power are the ones allied with the tech giants, there's little stopping them (the tech giants) from going full 1984.

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