Big tech was a major target at CPAC, but conservative startups face challenges

Big tech was in the crosshairs once again at one of the biggest annual gatherings of conservative politicians and personalities.

Big tech was in the crosshairs once again at one of the biggest annual gatherings of conservative politicians and personalities.

In speeches at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, elected officials, including Republican Sens. Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, targeted big tech and the legal immunity companies enjoy under Section 230, which is being considered by the Supreme Court.

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., said in her speech Saturday: “I have called for 230 protections to be removed from these big tech companies who are hiding behind Section 230, and they are acting like editors rather than publishers.”

But unlike at last year’s conference, speakers shied away from boosting a grand utopian vision of a conservative “parallel economy” shielded from the power of progressive values.

Instead, business leaders and elected officials shared a more weathered perspective, criticizing the failed promises of technologies like cryptocurrency, which many conservatives embraced last year. They also acknowledged the uneven odds of competing with tech behemoths and the difficulties of turning startups into companies that can eventually scale and thrive independent of politically motivated investors.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/big-tech-was-still-target-cpac-ambitions-parallel-economy-faded-rcna73446


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