Tulsi Gabbard on big tech/privacy protection
Tulsi has been the most prominent candidate on speaking up and taking action with breaking up big tech/holding them accountable.
Gabbard said she believes it's Congress' responsibility to break up big tech companies, such as Facebook, over antitrust concerns.
Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) says the prospect of Facebook introducing a new, digital currency, Libra, would too greatly expand the company's access to personal data.
"Giving someone like Mark Zuckerberg the power of his own currency, and what he can do with the information, the personal information, that he's already gathering, I think it's very dangerous," Gabbard told Cheddar Tuesday.
After the 1st Democratic Presidential debate of 2020, Tulsi was the most searched candidate on the night of the debate she participated in. Without any explanation, Google suspended Tulsi’s Google Ads account.
For hours, Tulsi’s campaign advertising account remained offline while Americans everywhere were searching for information about her. During this time, Google obfuscated and dissembled with a series of inconsistent and incoherent reasons for its actions.
So Tulsi filed a lawsuit against Google for Censorship And Election Inference.
Tulsi gave this statement to the NYT: “Google’s discriminatory actions against my campaign are reflective of how dangerous their complete dominance over internet search is, and how the increasing dominance of big tech companies over our public discourse threatens our core American values. This is a threat to free speech, fair elections and to our democracy, and I intend to fight back on behalf of all Americans.”
“A strong national defense and the protection of our civil liberties are equally important and compatible. We can strike the necessary balance between freedom and security by reforming our surveillance practices and directing the resources we have toward proven methods of eliminating threats to the safety and security of the American people.”
“We must stand up against the big Wall Street banks who gamble with our money and our future. Stand up against overreaching intelligence agencies and big tech companies who take away our civil liberties, privacy, and freedoms in the name of national security and corporate greed.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcrTy8huVH8
Gabbard has said that big tech companies abuse their power and has called out Facebook, Google, and Amazon specifically. Gabbard told the Times that tech giants have both invaded users' privacy and crushed smaller companies who they view as competition.
Privacy protection is an issue that Tulsi has been talking about and acting on from the year when she joined Congress. After the Snowden revelations in 2013 that the NSA was spying on Americans without warrants:
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) today co-sponsored a bill to improve privacy protections for Americans and rein in the National Security Administration’s (NSA) sweeping domestic surveillance programs. The USA FREEDOM Act primarily targets reforms to Section 215 of the 2001 USA PATRIOT Act, which has been widely blamed for the bulk collection of innocent Americans’ personal data.
For some of the other legislations, Tulsi has sponsored/co-sponsored with respect to protection of civil liberties/privacy :
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