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J.D. Vance is anti-Big Tech, pro-crypto

The Silicon Valley darling wants to regulate Google and deregulate crypto.

Both have been advocates of refreshing what they see as an outdated view of American antitrust law, which they believe has allowed the largest tech companies to evade scrutiny, stifling the would-be upstarts that Y Combinator made its name investing in. “The fundamental question to me is, how do we build a competitive marketplace that is pro-innovation, pro-competition, that allows consumers to have the right choices and isn’t just so obsessed on pricing power within the market that it sort of ignores all the other things that really matter?” Vance told the audience. At the same time, Vance has also been vocal about a more relaxed approach to regulating crypto, a position that is seemingly aligned with Trump, and is also attracting hundreds of millions of dollars in PAC contributions from the likes of Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, and Elon Musk.

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