Heritage Foundation Road Map Would Bar Big Tech From Joint Ventures With CCP-Linked Firms

Heritage Foundation Road Map Would Bar Big Tech From Joint Ventures With CCP-Linked Firms
The headquarters of ByteDance, the parent company of video sharing app TikTok, is seen in Beijing on September 16, 2020. - Silicon Valley tech giant Oracle is "very close" to sealing a deal to become the US partner to Chinese-owned video app TikTok to avert a ban in the United States, President Donald Trump said on September 15. (Photo by GREG BAKER / AFP) Photo by GREG BAKER/AFP via Getty Images
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A former Facebook counterterrorism expert who is now a Heritage Foundation technology scholar has a “road map” of “aggressive reforms to ensure that Big Tech is held accountable, provide scrutiny and oversight, and constrain its ability to reshape society.”

Kara Frederick researched and developed her report—“Combatting Big Tech’s Totalitarianism: A Road Map”—to help the public understand “what is coming down the line ... this progressive encroachment upon our rights that is going to be visited on Americans by private corporations in league with the government, as we are seeing today,” she told The Epoch Times on Feb. 8.
Mark Tapscott
Mark Tapscott
Senior Congressional Correspondent
Mark Tapscott is an award-winning senior Congressional correspondent for The Epoch Times. He covers Congress, national politics, and policy. Mr. Tapscott previously worked for Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Montgomery Journal, and Daily Caller News Foundation.
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