MEET BIG TECH’S NEW FOE - A CONGRESSMAN WHO FOUGHT CITY HALL
Can the congressman who took on an entrenched machine politician in Rhode Island also stand up to Big Tech?
David Cicilline, the Rhode Island Democrat now leading a House antitrust investigation into the market dominance of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple, is about to find out. But he has experience going up against “enormously powerful, very well-financed, very well-connected” special interests, which is how he now terms the technology industry.
That description also fit an earlier Cicilline opponent, former Providence Mayor Vincent “Buddy” Cianci , a charismatic and seemingly indestructible politician who ran the city for more than two decades. Cicilline braved
