USA TODAY Network — Joe Biden should stay above the populist anti-tech fray. This is why

With his anti-innovation comments in the State of the Union, President Joe Biden officially joined the shortsighted, anti-tech fray, calling on lawmakers to pass the deceptively named American Innovation and Choice Online Act. That is the last thing America needs right now.

Conservatives and progressives that support this kind of legislation remain ready to take the populist hammer to America’s biggest tech companies, with little regard for the long-term consequences. Each has their own seemingly separate reasons, but many of these can be traced back to political vendettas. And for what? Do we really want to risk America’s national and economic security to settle a grudge?