Rep Lou Correa called out for big ties to Big Tech
Billboard Outside His Fundraiser: “Stop Standing Up For Big Tech. Start Standing Up For Us!”
WASHINGTON – This morning, Rep. Lou Correa and attendees at his fundraiser at the National Democratic Club were greeted by an unavoidable message : “Stop Standing Up For Big Tech. Start Standing Up For Us!”
Digital rights group Fight For The Future deployed a billboard truck in order to draw attention to Correa’s anti-consumer interventions on behalf of Big Tech companies like Amazon, Apple, Google, and Meta. Correa’s stances are particularly problematic because he’s the ranking member of the House Antitrust Subcommittee despite being “openly hostile” to cracking down on antitrust enforcement and reining in Big Tech:
- In 2021, Correa voted against the Platform Competition and Opportunity Act, the American Online Choice and Innovation Act, and the Ending Platform Monopolies Act.
- In 2022, he voted against the Merger Filing Fee Modernization Act.
- Correa’s chief of staff once lobbied for Apple and Amazon, as recently as 2022.
- Correa once signed onto a statement smearing a package of bipartisan antitrust proposals as “radical” and “arbitrary.”
- Correa sided with Jim Jordan instead of the Biden Administration on tech antitrust
- Correa was one of just five Democrats to support an amendment pushed by Republican Thomas Massie, a staunch opponent of antitrust reform who chairs the subcommittee, to defang the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) efforts to promote competition.
- Correa chose not to sign onto a letter to the office of the White House Counsel encouraging that the Administration account for its competition policy when vetting judicial nominees.
“Rep Correa is so friendly to Big Tech at this point we may as well just let Mark Zuckerberg run the House Antitrust subcommittee himself,” said Evan Greer (she/her), director of Fight for the Future, “Correa isn’t just out of step with the Biden administration and his fellow Democrats on this issue, he’s actively betraying the American people, who overwhelmingly support bipartisan efforts to rein in Big Tech’s monopoly abuses.”
Fight for the Future has called on Democratic leadership to replace Rep Correa as chair of the antitrust subcommittee with someone who will actually do the job.
These photos are available for use by press. Credit: “Courtesy: Fight for the Future”
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