Both Parties Finally Agree On One Issue

Both parties have found a mutual interest in reigning in big tech companies, albeit for different reasons.

In a political world of increasing vitriol and resentment, both President Donald Trump and the Democratic Party have managed to find one piece of common ground.

Trump has accused big tech of trying to set him back in the past, and has recently repeated these accusations. The main difference now is that recently Trump has also been sharing his delight in the Democratic Party’s anti-big tech sentiment. Trump appeared on television Monday, where he claimed that he won the 2016 election in spite of companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter “fighting” him. On the Republican side, there are concerns that big tech companies have too much power, which they allege is bad for them because big tech leans to the left of the political spectrum. There are allegations of anti-conservative bias in big tech coming from many facets of the political right, including President Trump.

The Democrats, for their part, are also deeply concerned about reigning in big tech, but for different reasons. Democrats are less concerned with anti-conservative bias, but they are deeply concerned about antitrust fears. Several Democrats, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren have come out in support of breaking up big tech companies over these antitrust concerns. Warren has called for regulators to be appointed in order to roll back certain acquisitions and mergers. Among the plans Warren laid out, she wants to roll back Facebook’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. “They just have this crazy disposition, they have this philosophy. And yet, the Democrats are very much opposed to them in so many ways, it’s sort of an amazing thing,” Trump said, speaking of big tech and the Democrat’s current issues with them.

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