u. s. senate judiciary approved a bill preventing a tech jain from giving preference to their own businesses on their own web sites. the innovation and choice online acted as known, still have to pass a full senate vote to become law. we spoke with a ben swan host of ortiz business show, boom bust. remember, there are about 5 different laws that have been suggested in terms of being able to rein in these tech companies. in this particular case, this, this freedom of choice app, essentially what it's saying is if you're amazon, you can't create your own product on your own marketplace and then compete directly with the other sellers who are on there. especially since amazon is constantly deriving information and data from those sellers. so they're essentially utilizing someone else's research, someone else's market position, someone else's understanding of price points to basically copy all of that and then compete directly for a lot of years. companies like facebook and amazon and twitter and google didn't have to spend a lot of money to lobby lawmakers because they were essentially left alo

u. s. senate judiciary approved the bill preventing tech giants from giving preference to their own businesses on their website. although the innovation choice online act has to pass a full senate vote now to become law, it's actually unclear whether that is going to happen. well, i'm glad to welcome on to the program benz one benz and investigative reporter and host of been bust on our see ben tech giants. they're trying to resist congressional efforts to crit til at their power. i think that's perhaps the best description. do you think these lobbying efforts will achieve that goal? i think they very well could remember there are about 5 different laws that have been suggested in terms of being able to rein in these tech companies. because obviously when we say tech company, we're talking about a whole host of companies with different services, different products, and they're designed in different ways. in this particular case, this, this freedom of choice act essentially what it's saying is if you're amazon, you can create your own product on your own marketplace and then compete directly wi

announcement came in testimony before the senate judiciary committee, that was matthew olson, the deputy us attorney of the national security division of the u. s. department of justice and this cons. less than a week after there were investigations into january 6, the year ago was the one year anniversary recently of the january 6 capital riot which is being investigated in the testimony. we heard from olsen as well as other figures from the department of justice and they discussed about the fact that they argue that white supremacists, anti government extremists, and others are the primary danger to the united states in terms of terrorism. now from there we heard of further calls comparing them essentially to islamic radicals . here's what we heard from my perspective. spinning a lot of time focused on the radicalization of international terrorists and islamic extremists and extremists of all stripes. this group shares many of the same characteristics. people who feel like their way of life is under attack. many of those people i would, i would guess last year had carried those exact beliefs and thoughts as they marched their way to break int

u. s. department of justice announcing the formation of this new entity that will deal with the issue of domestic terrorism. now this comes as part of the senate judiciary committees hearings about january 6th, that was the capital riot. and after that happened january 6, 2021. in the aftermath of that, we saw a number of republican representatives saying that the responsibility came squarely from trump, that trump quote, there's responsibility for when wednesdays attack on congress. and in the aftermath of that we see an investigation. now, in the testimony we heard today, we heard department of justice officials talking about how white supremacist anti government activists and others are the primary domestic terrorism threat. and in some of their language, they even compare them to his lama stream. and here's what we heard from my perspective is spending a lot of time focused on the radicalization of international terrorists and islamic extremists and extremes of all stripes. this group shares many of the same characteristics. people who feel like their way of life is under attack. many of those people i would, i would guess last year had carried thos