{"id":32449,"date":"2021-03-05T15:28:06","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:28:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32449"},"modified":"2021-03-05T15:28:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T23:28:15","slug":"white-house-adds-big-tech-critic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32449","title":{"rendered":"White House adds Big Tech critic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Friday announced that notable big tech critic\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tmhjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrllzzvch_qppmggswstmfmvdhsdsm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tmhjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrllzzvch_qppmggswstmfmvdhsdsm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615070390721000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFC2NLtLETppPaeHeHshMn3Y9T_4g\">Tim Wu<\/a>\u00a0is joining the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rtrwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbccrrgvk_qppmggswstmfmvdhsdsm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rtrwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbccrrgvk_qppmggswstmfmvdhsdsm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615070390721000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFAxSHzRrh7VCC3Aq_wPNxZ8HPIaA\">Biden<\/a>\u00a0administration in a role focused on addressing the market power of tech giants.<\/p>\n<p>The Columbia University Law School professor and author of \u201cThe Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age,\u201d will serve as special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy.<\/p>\n<p>Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rtcwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbccrrgvg_qppmggswstmfmvdhsdsm.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rtcwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbccrrgvg_qppmggswstmfmvdhsdsm.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615070390721000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFQDn33mNot18qzYqIT40Edqc_DLg\">Amy Klobuchar<\/a>\u00a0(D-Minn.) touted Wu\u2019s appointment as a signal that the Biden administration is \u201cserious about promoting technology in the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Aurelien Portuese, the director of antitrust and innovation policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, said there are some risks to Wu\u2019s appointment. Portuese said Wu\u2019s \u201canti-bigness\u201d stance may pose a risk to American innovation.<\/p>\n<p>Pressed during a briefing on whether President Biden will pursue a policy to break up big tech companies, press secretary Jen Psaki said the administration doesn\u2019t have a new policy to announce on that front.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president believes, as he has talked about before, that it\u2019s important to promote competition and address monopoly and market power issues. But we don\u2019t have a new policy to announce. We are six weeks into a new administration, but certainly we welcome the expertise of individuals like Tim Wu,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White House on Friday announced&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32449"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32451,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32449\/revisions\/32451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}