Trump’s FTC deletes blogs that criticize Amazon and Microsoft

For a short period, perhaps even a second, it seemed as if the popularity that was created in the Donald Trump campaign may preserve the theory of Lina Khan to organize the great technology in the Federal Trade Committee. It turns out, not much. Wire first mentioned More than 300 blog publications criticize companies like Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and AI – which were mostly published during the Biden administration while Khan was the agency’s head – was removed from the agency website.

Blogs ranged from details related to FTC privacy issues against large technology companies, business guidance, and consumer protection information, among other content. WIRED highlights many of them, including the post that alerted consumers to allegations Amazon used data cameras to train their algorithms And post highlights how It is claimed that Microsoft has collected data from children who use Xbox without approval From their parents or guardians.

A valid question regarding this decision to remove the blog posts will be: Why? Elimination of the blog’s publications does not change the agency’s policies, nor does it erase the settlements they obtained with companies due to alleged violations of FTC rules. The blog publications are designed to make information that is likely to stumble in a legal and worldly policy in digestible materials for the general public. Deleting them only causes confusion, which may be very well.

It should be noted that since these agencies change from administration to the administration every four or eight years, this is not the first time that the government website hosts content that does not agree with the incoming administration. But usually, this is not deleted directly. In fact, the Biden administration has left Blogs from the Trump era for fear of deleting it that the law – specifically, may violate the federal record law and the open government data law.

None of this should be news for Trump or anyone in his circle, given that he took a good amount of heat Delete the tweets that were supposed to be sipped. In the end, no real penalty for that entire case came, which may only encourage him to continue erasing unless it is considered appropriate.

Before taking office, Vice President JD Vance He expressed his support for FTC President Lina Khan And its approach to pursuing large technology. On Tuesday, on the same day that the FTC blog record was sent from Khan’s office to the shadow world, Vans Appear It was hosted by Andressen Horowitz to indicate that the Trump administration wants to stay in contact with the technology industry and its interests, as well as issues that appeal to the party’s popular wing. Think about deleting the previous FTC criticism of the major technology as a potential olive branch.