CRS Reports – Week of 3-11-23 – Big Tech Regulation

With the continuing interest in Congress on potential
regulation of ‘Big Technology’ industry, the Congressional Research Service (CRS)
published a summary
document looking at the recent reports that the CRS has prepared on related
topics. Those topics include:

• Antitrust issues,

• Content moderation and §230,

• Content moderation and free speech,

• Data protection and international
data flow,

• Cross-border investment and
commercial transactions,

• Net neutrality and common carrier
classification,

There is very little actual discussion in this report, it is
more of a CRS bibliography. The drawback to the document is that while it lists
CRS report numbers, it does not provide direct links to the documents. A reader
wishing to access one of the listed documents would have to copy the report
number and conduct a search on the CRS Reports search
page. The reason for this is that CRS frequently updates reports while
keeping the same report number. Searching for the report number would take you
to the most current information.