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WASHINGTON 鈥?After his press secretary blasted it as an example of rampant government overreach, President Donald Trump signed a bill into law Monday that could eventually allow internet providers to sell information about their customers ; browsing habits.The bill scraps a Federal Communications Commission online privacy regulation issued in October to give consumers more control over how companies like Comcast, AT 038;T and Verizon share that information. Critics have argued that the rule would stifle innovation and pick winners and losers among internet companies.The regulation was scheduled to take effect later this year, but Congress used its authority un stanley cup der the obscure Congressional Review Act to wipe it from the books.With a Republican president in the White House, the GOP-controlled Congress has turned to the 20-year-old law to scrap numerous regulations that Republicans say are costly, burdensome or excessive, many of which were finalized in the closing months of Democrat Barack Obama presidency.Internet companies like Google don ;t have to ask stanley cup their users for permission before tracking what sites they visit, a discrepancy that Republicans and industry group have blasted as both unfair to companies and confusing to consumers.White House press secretar stanley cup y Sean Spicer said last week that the president support for the bill was part of a larger effort to fight Washington red tape that stifles American innovation, job creation and economic Ffsm Uncertain start to post-Merkel era after close German vote
WASHINGTON 鈥?President Donald Trump is wrongly claiming that Google shunned his State of the Union speech but promoted Barack Obama addresses. There are multiple archived versions of Google homepage showing the tech company highlighting Trump State of the Union address in 2018. In a tweet Wednesday, Trump posts a video that shows Google promoting Obama State of the Union address on its homepage from 2012 to 2016, while seemingly failing to do the same for Trump in 2017 and 2018. StopTheBias, Trump tweets.But it not the case that Google never promoted Trump.There are m stanley cup ultiple archived versions of Google homepage showing the tech company highlighting his State of the Union address in 2018.A look at the claim:VIDEO TWEETED BY TRUMP: For years, Google promoted President Obama State o adidas originals f the Union on its homepage. When President Trump took office, Google stopped.THE FACTS: The video is incorrect as to Trump.There no dispute that Google promoted Obama State of the Union speeches from 2012 to 2016, according to webpages captured by the Wayback Machin stanley cup e, an internet archive site.In a statement, Google said it has not historically promoted the first address to Congress by a new president, which is technically not a State of the Union address, so it didn ;t do so in either 2009, when Obama first took office, or 2017, Trump first year as presi