1 year, 5 months ago

NADINE DORRIES: I Googled my name, and learnt all about Big Tech!

On my first day at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, I was given a single piece of advice by my predecessor. This, I would come to realise, reflected a particular view of Big Tech — Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft — and attempts to regulate its harmful impact on consumers and on business. On my first day at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, I was given a single piece of advice by my predecessor Yet two years later, evidence is growing that Rishi Sunak and his ministers may be buckling under intense lobbying from Big Tech. Now elements of the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Bill — which allows vital regulation of Big Tech's commercial powers — are being watered down. Sadly, our PM is a man in thrall to Big Tech, and there has been a managed decline in the proposed effectiveness of both Bills over the past 12 months I'd long been aware that when you search for news related to politics on Google, it is predominantly Left-wing publications that top the list of results.

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