angdraug, 1 month ago

@caseynewton If you have read it, why would you take anything Cantwell says about what she's going to do at face value? There's a pattern of her sabotaging tech regulation bills after endorsing them. This one, she didn't even cosponsor. Just look at the list of her top campaign contributors from OpenSecrets, that alone is enough to tell you whether or not she wants to open the Pandora's box of evaluating the national security threats posed by the big tech.

But many aides said the episode was part of a pattern: Cantwell would publicly criticize other members’ tech initiatives, take umbrage at lawmakers leading them in her stead, and then either let the push fizzle or quash it behind closed doors. “Legislation would be worked on for months, hours and hours and hours of staff time would be invested, member conversations would be had, and then all of the sudden things would go in a completely different direction,” said a former Senate aide.
Top contributors: AIPAC, T-Mobile, Microsoft, Amazon, AT&T, United Airlines.