Trump’s FTC Deletes Blogs Critical of Amazon and Microsoft

For a brief period, maybe even just a second, it seemed as though the populism built into the Donald Trump campaign just might preserve the Lina Khan theory of Big Tech regulation at the Federal Trade Commission. Turns out, not so much. Wired first reported that more than 300 blog posts critical of companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, and AI firms—mostly published during the Biden administration while Khan was the head of the agency—have been removed from the agency’s website. The blogs ranged from details regarding the FTC’s privacy lawsuits against Big Tech firms, business guidance, and consumer protection information, among other content. Wired highlighted several of them, including a post that alerted consumers to allegations that Amazon used data from Ring security cameras to train its algorithms and a post highlighting how Microsoft allegedly collected data from children using Xbox without consent from their parents or guardians. A valid question in regard to this decision t ... Read full article.