ICYMI: The Best in Tech Policy for September 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, 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
- Senators May Eradicate Local Journalism by Mark Jamison
- Journalism Competition and Preservation Act: The Price of Digital Ink by Joshua Levine
- JCPA would Break Content Moderation and Violate the First Amendment by TechFreedom
- Judge Rules Illumina-Grail Merger is Legal Despite FTC Antitrust Accusations by Jessica Melugin
- Congress aims at big tech companies but would hurt startups and innovation by Grayce Burns
- TPI Releases Video of Keynote Speech on Startups in an Era of Great Power Competition by Ashley Benjamin
- ITC Policy Project Series: Understanding the U.S. International Trade Commission, Intellectual Property and Patents by William Jenks
- The American Innovation and Choice Online Act (R47228) and Advocates, Industry Urge Senate Judiciary to Halt Journalism Bill by Josh Withrow
- Patent challenges can help lower drug prices and create new generic options by Ann Phelan
Artificial Intelligence
- US Court of Appeals Short-Circuits Artificial Intelligence Inventions by Michael Rosen
- National AI Strategy Needs Key Updates to Strengthen U.S. Position as Global Leader and Strategies to Improve the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan by Ryan Nabil
- Artificial Intelligence Could Be a Great Equalizer and Magnus Carlsen’s Strongest Chess Opponent Is AI by Tyler Cowen
- Using AI to Avoid Hiring Biases and Find Overlooked Talent: Mike Rosenbaum on TPI’s Two Think Minimum by Scott Wallsten and Michael Rosenbaum
- HireVue “AI Explainability Statement” Mostly Fails to Explain What it Does by Matt Sherer
- Press Release: CDT Welcomes White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights by Alexandra Reeve Givens
- Agile Regulation for Auto Safety and Innovation by Heidi King
- Oops: The Predicted 47 Percent of Job Loss From AI Didn’t Happen By Robert D. Atkinson
Commercial Privacy
- The Death and Life of the Great American Internet by Jim Harper
- 79% Say It’s “Unreasonable” for Banks to Share What You Buy with the Government by Emily Ekins
- TechFreedom Delivers Remarks at FTC’s Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Public Forum by TechFreedom
- Biting Off More Than It Can Chew? Some Thoughts On The FTC’s Advance Notice Of Proposed Rulemaking On “Commercial Surveillance And Data Security” by Larry Spiwak
- Learning to Share: Lessons on Data-Sharing from Beyond Social Media by Gabriel Nicholas and Dhanaraj Thakur
- Social Media Companies Should Give Researchers Access to More Data. Other Industries Can Show Them How by Gabriel Nicholas
- CDT Experts Provide Testimony Before FTC’s Commercial Surveillance and Data Security Public Forum by Lydia X. Z. Brown, Andrew Crawford, Ridhi Shetty
- The most important actions Congress can take on tech by Chris Riley
- Communities of faith need to up their data security baseline by Sofia Lesmes
- AFPF comment on FTC’s ANPR by AFPF
Culture
- How to Think Like an Entrepreneur: Highlights from My Conversation with Jason Feifer by Shane Tews and Jason Feifer
- Kids Online Safety Act Could Do More Harm Than Good by Jeffrey Westling
- Frontier Institute: Big Government in Not the Answer to ‘Big Tech’ by Frontier Institute
- Don’t fear biotech progress. Fear medical stagnation by Eli Dourado
- Will Rinehart appeared on TechFreedom’s Tech Policy Podcast to talk about regulation of life- and health-enhancing medicines, competition in online platforms, and state broadband maps.
- Now Can We Stop Saying It’s Social Media That’s Polarizing America? By David Moschella
- US Senators Want the US to Imitate Europe’s Tech Policies by Mark Jamison
Government Surveillance and Encryption
- Administering “Search” After “Reasonable Expectations” Privacy Doctrine by Jim Harper
- Modernizing the Federal Identity System: Highlights from a Conversation with Jordan Burris by Shane Tews and Jim Harper
- Is the UK’s Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament a US Government Surveillance Target? By Patrick Eddington
- Cracking Down on Federal Aid for Reproductive Health Surveillance: Regional Computer Forensic Labs by Jake Laperruque
- Global Encryption Coalition Steering Committee Statement on the OHCHR Report on the Right to Privacy in the Digital Age by Greg Nojeim, Mallory Knodel
Online Expression
- On Texas Social Media Law, It’s the Fifth Circuit Versus the First Amendment by Daniel Lyons
- W(h)ither the Christchurch Call? By Bronwyn Howell
- Jawboning against Speech and How Politicians Bully Social Media Outlets into Censoring Users by Will Duffield
- Meet the strangest alliance in tech policy by Josh Withrow
- Why Everyone Loses If Westminster Passes Poor Online Regulation by Kir Nuthi
- Circuit Court’s Ruling on Texas Social Media Law Carries Disastrous Consequences for Platforms and Users By Ashley Johnson
Telecom
- The National Telecommunications and Information Administration Steps Beyond Congress’s Purview in Broadband Deployment Plans by Shane Tews
- Here’s Why Florida Should Provide Broadband Leadership by Mark Jamison
- Starlink Can Help Close the Digital Divide–If the FCC Reverses the Bureau and Reinstates RDOF Support and Outsourcing USF Governance to Private Entity Violates Constitution: New TechFreedom Amicus Brief by TechFreedom
- Digital Discrimination: Fiber Availability and Speeds by Race and Income by T. Randolph Beard, PhD and George S. Ford, PhD
- ICANN’s Accountability and Transparency: A Retrospective on the IANA Transition by Milton Mueller
- Five Principles for Spectrum Policy: A Primer for Policymakers, Why We Should Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Spectrum Windfalls, and Biden Blueprint Misses the Mark on Broadband Prices by Joe Kane
Web3 and Crypto
- Does the Merge change how Ethereum is regulated? (No.) by Peter Van Velkenburgh
- TPI Releases Video of Panel Discussion on Web3 and the Metaverse by Ashley Benjamin
Metaverse
- Virtual Reality and the Relevant Market Fallacy by Ryan Young
- Metaverse 101 with Joel Scharlat, Calli Schroeder, and Chris Riley [Episode 16] — The Foundry by Chris Riley
- IP and the Metaverse: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Will Face Serious Challenges in the Metaverse By Juan Londoño, Jaci McDole and Daniel Castro