“Growing shares of Americans think major technology companies should face more government regulation, and a majority say that these firms have too much economic power and influence” - Pew
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56% of Americans support more regulation of major technology companies
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What you see here is the influence of Trump colliding in a way that aligns with Democrats. The historical Republican position is less regulation and control of industry, whereas Democrats seek more things like Unions, breakups, regulations, more taxes…
What we see here, is the frustration that Trump had with companies, specifically social media companies that did not peddle his narrative. Even though at the end of the day Facebook was actually creating echo chambers based on preferences that was reinforcing the beliefs of the viewers, not suppressing them. But that didn’t matter. Trump peddled a narrative that these types of companies were bad and should be regulated more. Those Republicans that aligned with Trump (Conservative Republicans as indicated in the polls), flipped the Republican historical stance to one that aligned with Democrats. The more liberal or moderate Republicans still hold to the classical Republican view of less business regulation.
I find it funny that Republicans are just swinging in the wind on the very breath of Trump.