Trump’s FTC deletes blogs critical of Amazon and Microsoft

For a short period, maybe even a second, it seemed that populism built into Donald Trump’s campaign could simply maintain Lina Khan’s theory of major technological regulations in the Federal Trade Committee. It turns out, not so much. Wired first reports That more than 300 blog publications criticized by companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and AI companies are most published during the Biden administration while Khan was the head of the agency – was removed from the agency’s website.

Blogs ranged from details on FTC’s confidential court lawsuits against large technology companies, business guidance and consumer protection information, among other content,. Wired highlighted a few of them, including a publication that signals users of allegations that Amazon uses ring security cameras to train his algorithms and a publication emphasizing how Microsoft is said to have collected data from children using Xbox without consent by their parents or guardians.

A valid question regarding this solution for removing blog posts would be: Why? Getting rid of blog publications does not change the agency’s policies, nor deletes the agreements it has provided with companies for alleged violations of FTC rules. Blog publications are intended to make information that would otherwise have probably been sunk in legal and secular policy in digestible materials for the general public. Deleting them only to cause confusion, which can very well be the question.

It is worth noting that since these agencies change from administration of administration every four or eight years, this is certainly not the first time the government website hosts content that the incoming administration disagrees. But usually this is not just deleted straight. In fact, to Wired, the Biden administration left blogs from the Trump era for fear that their deletion could violate the law – more special the Federal Law on Records and the Law on Government Data.

None of this should be news about Trump or someone in his circle, considering that he has taken quite a lot of heat Delete tweets that had to be archivedS In the end, there was no real punishment from all this affair, which probably only strengthened him to continue to erase what he no longer sees as appropriate.

Before taking office, Vice President JD Vance Voice support for FTC chairman Lina Khan and her approach to passing after Big Tech. On Tuesday on the same day, the FTC Blogs Diary of Khan’s office was sent to the shade change, Vance appeared at a conference Host from the risk capital company Andresen Horowitz to signal that the Trump administration wants to remain related to the technology industry and its interests, along with questions that are liked by the party’s populist wing. Consider deleting past criticism of FTC to Big Tech as a possible olive branch.