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The Democratic platform is doubling down on tech antitrust and kids online safety


The party is talking more about competition than in 2020.

Even though it predates Democrats’ swap of their leading candidate, the platform, along with some other early indicators, begins to paint a fuzzy picture of where Harris stands on tech policy. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who is viewed by many progressives as sympathetic to business interests, said in a speech on the first night of the Democratic National Convention that Harris would “forge an economy with fair competition, free from monopolies. “And, the Administration has strengthened legal protections for survivors and victims of non-consensual intimate imagery, including those generated by AI, building on the federal civil cause of action established under the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization of 2022.”

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