Tournament: NSD | Round: 2 | Opponent: Ethan Wu | Judge: Connor self
Gordon 6-23, AP reporter in Washington, covering business, fin issues and occasional scandals, now pandemic fallout, tech policy/politics. 6-23-21. "House panel pushes legislation targeting Big Tech's power" https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-business-government-and-politics-f0f56ec111d85e5f70fe27bb5002e93f brett
WASHINGTON — A House panel pushed ahead Wednesday with ambitious legislation that could curb the
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one-vote margin depending on Vice President Kamala Harris being the tiebreaker.
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Kreighbaum 21 Andrew Kreighbaum 21, 3-10-2021, "Bloomberg Law The House of Representatives passed the most significant overhaul of federal labor law in decades on Tuesday. https://news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-benefits/landmark-labor-law-overhaul-passes-house-but-senate-fate-unclear EH
The Protecting the Right to Organize Act (H.R. 842) is
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possible with an administration willing to expend critical political capital," McNicholas said.
Ganesh Sitaraman 20, Vanderbilt University Law School, 3/12/20, "The National Security Case for Breaking Up Big Tech," https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3537870 brett
Concentration in the tech sector also threatens the defense industrial base due to higher costs
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redirected via monopoly profits to the pockets of big tech executives and shareholders.
William Greenwalt 19, Senior Fellow at the Atlanta Council, April 2019, "Leveraging the National Technology Industrial Base To Address Great-Power Competition", Atlanta Council, https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/images/publications/Leveraging_the_National_Technology_Industrial_Base_to_Address_Great-Power_Competition.pdf brett
The United States faces a new threat environment that has not been seen since the
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and allied capabilities during that period now appears to be a huge vulnerability.