Ken Buck of Colorado and Matt Gaetz of Florida.Īmazon has also not escaped the Biden administration‘s crosshairs. Two Republican lawmakers joined a letter requesting an Amazon investigation in March 2022: Reps. In 2020, the House’s top antitrust panel completed an investigation into Amazon and three other Big Tech companies.īefore Republicans took control of the House in 2023, Democratic lawmakers urged President Biden’s Justice Department to investigate alleged misleading conduct by Amazon before the committee. The House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust subcommittee had Amazon in its crosshairs under previous Democratic leadership. While Amazon is making inroads with powerful Ohio Republicans, Democrats are scrutinizing the Big Tech titan and the Biden administration has slapped it with fines and new roadblocks. “This enormous capital investment further solidifies Ohio as the tech center of the Midwest and positions us for a bright future as cloud computing and artificial intelligence are more integrated into the economy and our everyday lives.”
“This positions Ohio as a critical location for the most discussed technology in the world, artificial intelligence,” Lt.
Republican state officials’ embrace of Amazon in 2023 showcases the strength of Ohio’s desire to be the tech hub in the heartland over Americans’ animosity for Big Tech. Trump’s fans migrated to the social-media platform Parler over Big-Tech censorship, only to see Amazon Web Services pull the plug on hosting the platform while Apple and Google removed Parler from their app stores.
Amazon has not always been beloved by the Ohioans who twice voted for former President Donald Trump.
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