Congress is again moving to shape online competition and platform behavior, with the latest push framed as a bid to micromanage how the internet works.
Lawmakers’ effort is shadowed by doubts about their technical fluency, with critics portraying a gap between the complexity of digital markets and Congress’s grasp of basic online tools.
That mismatch sharpens the broader question behind the debate: whether Washington can regulate powerful tech platforms effectively without imposing rules that misunderstand how the internet actually functions.