Australia Risks Confrontation With Biden Administration Over Big Tech: Expert

Australia Risks Confrontation With Biden Administration Over Big Tech: Expert
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Silicon Valley is hoping a Biden administration will push back an impending wave of global regulation aimed at curbing the power of the tech giants, with Australia likely to be in the crosshairs, according to one expert.

“Big Tech went big for Biden in 2020 and is now an important constituency of what might be called the right (or at least the ‘less left’) wing of the Democratic Party,” Salvatore Babones, associate professor at the University of Sydney and an expert in the Asian political economy said in a newly released report (pdf).
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