ICYMI: The Best in Tech Policy for April 2022
Every month the Stand Together Community provides its monthly roundup of noteworthy articles and publications in tech.
This month, we are highlighting work related to antitrust, commercial privacy, government surveillance, online expression, metaverse policy, and telecom regulation among other issues. The ideas in the selected pieces do not necessarily represent the views of the Stand Together Community and were chosen because of their unique perspectives and opinions.
Antitrust and Competition
Is the Tech Sector Too Concentrated? My Long-Read Q&A with Mark Muro by James Pethokoukis
The Biden administration’s antitrust crusade risks U.S. competitiveness and security by Josh Withrow
Artificial Intelligence
AI Bias Is Correctable. Human Bias? Not So Much by David Moschella
Fact of the Week: Investing in AI Significantly Reduced Business Risk During the COVID-19 Pandemic by Luke Dascoli
Commercial Privacy
Your Data Isn’t Gold; It’s Not Even Yours by David Moschella
How Congress Can Build the Right Data Privacy Framework by Ryan Nabil
Culture
Samuel Florman & the Continuing Battle over Technological Progress by Adam Thierer
Stop freaking out about Elon Musk buying Twitter. We have no clue what will happen by Christopher Koopman and Taylor Barkley
Government Surveillance and Privacy
Taking a Closer Look at the Impact on Encryption, Metadata, Children’s Safety + More in Meta’s Human Rights Impact Assessment by Mallory Knodel
Defending Digital Privacy in a Pandemic by Cato Institute
Online Expression
Obama Is Wrong About Regulating Disinformation by Mark Jamison
Shedding Light on Shadowbanning by Gabriel Nicholas
Texas’ Social Media Law Recycles Left‐Wing Media Theory by Thomas Berry and Nicole Saad Bembridge
Conservatives Take Aim at Free Markets and Free Speech by Cato Institute
What Happened to Truth Social? Free Speech Online Sounded So Easy by Daniel Lyons
Social media companies are free to make bad decisions by Spence Purnell and Adrian Moore
Tech Regulation
If Common Carriage Doesn’t Work for Broadband, Why Should It Work for Social Media? by TechFreedom
“Right to Repair” Bill Is a Move in the Wrong Direction by Alex Reinauer
U.S. Risks from European Regulation by Douglas Holtz-Eakin
Europe’s Digital Markets Act Has Global Implications by Jeffrey Westling
Elon vs. the Regulators by Jessica Melugin
Telecom
Probabilistic Interference Assessments in Spectrum Policy by Jeffrey Westling
Banding Together on Spectrum Policy by Jonathan Cannon
Broadband Policy Guidebook: 2022 Edition by Sarah Oh Lam and Scott Wallsten
Web3 and Crypto
Governing the Metaverse: Can We Learn from Telecommunications? by Bronwyn Howell
The Dark Side of the Metaverse, Part II: Potential Solutions by Mark Jamison
Lessons from Social Media for Creating a Safe Metaverse by Juan Londoño
