“It started with tuna,” explains Congressman Ken Buck, when asked why he doesn’t use Google
. Shortly after lunch he has a meeting with a fellow Republican member in the neighboring Longworth Building. Making his way down the marble hallways, he pulls out his phone, clad in an American flag case. It’s how, he says, he knows where he needs to be and what he needs to be doing.iPhone. Buck gets it. The House’s IT unit gives offices the option of two types of officially sanctioned phones: iPhones and Samsung phones running the Android operating system.
“If he swore off Microsoft, he’d be screwed,” says Bradford Fitch, president of the non-partisan Congressional Management Foundation. That’s because Microsoft is baked into the House’s operations — it’s the default for everything from email to calendaring to web conferencing.Buck says his choices require some sacrifices,For web searches, he avoids Google in favor of DuckDuckGo, the self-described privacy-respecting Google alternative that has about.
Here Buck assumes what I’m quickly learning is his go-to tone: kidding, and also serious. With 69,000 followers, the @RepKenBuck Twitter account is active and spirited, regularly used to poke at President Biden, China and big tech. “I’ve got to use Twitter, in order to communicate,” he says. But: “I don’t tweet. Someone tweets.”“When I turn on my computer, how do I do that?,” Buck asks her.
He arrives at his meeting. It’s with Wisconsin Republican Mike Gallagher. Now that his subcommittee’s package of antitrust bills made it out of committee, Buck’s gone into sales mode. He’s been trying to convince his fellow Republicans — upset over what many of them say they see as Silicon Valley’s bias against the right, but wary of giving government more power over the private sector — to support a push to bring the proposals to the House floor.
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