ICYMI The Best of Tech Policy for June 2022
ICYMI: The Best in Tech Policy for June 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
· The Federal Digital Platform Commission Would Be a Big Mistake By Thomas M Lenard
· Incoherence in the War on Big Tech by Mark Jamison
· Don’t Do It by Douglas Holtz-Eakin
· Current Antitrust Proposals No “Laffing” Matter by Jessica Melugin
· Misguided Antitrust Proposal Handcuffs U.S. Tech Companies and Gives China the Edge | Opinion by Dr. Robert McClure
· Expanding antitrust laws to regulate Big Tech is a bad idea by Josh Withrow
· The Federal Digital Platform Commission Would Be a Big Mistake by Thomas M. Lenard
· JENNIFER FAUVER ON ANTITRUST ENFORCEMENT BY STATE AGS by Jennifer Fauver, Thomas M. Lenard, Scott Wallsten and Sarah Oh Lam
· DOJ’s Threatened Reign of Error: Proposed Criminal-Monopolization Prosecutions by Alden Abbott
· Antitrust From the Gilded Age to the Technology Age by Alden Abbott and Andrew L. Mercado
· Competition Policy and the Infant Formula Market by Alden Abbott
· The Competition and Transparency in Digital Advertising Act Is Fatally Flawed by Andrew Mercado
· Total blackout What happened to people’s attention when Meta went offline? By William Rinehart
· Why In-App Payments Make Sense, And the Open App Markets Act Does Not by Julie Carlson
· Withdrawal of Antitrust Guidance on SEP Enforcement Is Nothing to Cheer About by Julie Carlson
· The Revised (But Uncorrected) Version of the Klobuchar Bill by Aurelien Portuese
· The Meteoric Rise (and Fall) of Lina Khan by Julie Carlson
· The American Innovation and Choice Online Act is an “Economics-Free Zone” by Dr. George Ford
· The Third Time is Not the Charm: Significant Problems Remain With Senator Klobuchar’s Antitrust Reform Bill by Lawrence Spiwak
Artificial Intelligence
· Harnessing the Best of Automation While Minimizing the Downside Risks by John Bailey
· Artificial Intelligence Is an “Anti-Concept” by Jim Harper
· The Trans Complication in Facial Recognition Technology by Matthew Feeney and Caleb Brown
· If AI Ever Becomes Sentient, It Will Let Us Know by Tyler Cowen
· Clean and Just: Electric Vehicle Innovation to Accelerate More Equitable Early Adoption by Madeline Yozwiak, Sanya Carley and David M. Konisky
Commercial Privacy
· Could Congress Finally Move on Privacy? By Jeffrey Westling
· The American Data Privacy and Protection Act Fails to Streamline Privacy Laws Nationwide and Promote Technological Innovation by Ryan Nabil
· Federal Policymakers Should Continue to Build on Recent Steps to Help K-12 Schools Secure Their Networks and Protect Student Privacy by Cody Venzke
· THERE’S A NEW BIPARTISAN DRAFT FEDERAL PRIVACY LAW. WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR STARTUPS? By Sean Davis
· Three Bills Show Remaining Divisions in Attempt to Reach a Compromise on Federal Data Privacy Legislation by Ashley Johnson
Culture
· 988: A New Chapter in America’s Fight Against Suicide by Ajit Pai
· 3 Questions about Progress: The Profectus Progress Roundtable by Adam Thierer
· How Arizona Is Getting Innovation Culture Right by Adam Thierer
Government Surveillance and Privacy
· The Subtle Power of Abstraction in Public Policy by Jim Harper
Online Expression
· Supreme Court Action Yields Surprising Clues About Social Media Regulation by Daniel Lyons
· The Use of Mis- and Disinformation in Online Harassment Campaigns by Caroline Sinders
· SOCIAL MEDIA IS LIKELY HEADED TO THE SUPREME COURT by Eric Peterson
· Community and Content Moderation in the Digital Public Hypersquare by Chris Riley
· Bills meant to check Big Tech’s power could lead to more disinformation by Jane Bambauer and Anupam Chander
· Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users by Daphne Keller
· ‘Wildly inappropriate’ attack on net neutrality or ‘exciting’ new tool to fight piracy? Experts divided on new dynamic website blocking court order by Christopher Nardi
Tech Regulation
· Don’t Follow Europe on Tech Regulation by Jessica Melugin
· Chips are not “the future” by Milton Mueller
· The Biden Administration’s IT Operating Plan Is a Missed Opportunity to Implement a Defined, Overarching Federal IT Strategy by Eric Egan
Telecom
· Letter on Oversight of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration by Jeffrey Westling
· CEI Comments to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Regarding Report on Competition in the Mobile App Ecosystem by Alex Reinauer
· How Congress and the Federal Communications Commission Can Help Improve Affordable Internet Access to Underserved Populations by Ryan Nabil
· CEI Report: Reforms to Universal Service Fund Will Allow the FCC to Cut Taxpayer Costs and Improve Broadband Affordability for Underserved Americans by Ryan Nabil
· GOVERNMENT REPORT SHOWS WHY BILLIONS IN SPENDING HAVEN’T CLOSED DIGITAL DIVIDE by Eric Peterson
· Broadband Buildout Stymied by Bureaucracy by Jonathan Cannon
· MAXIMIZING BEAD’S BROADBAND REACH by Gregory L. Rosston and Scott wallsten
Web3 and Crypto
· The Crypto Crash Is Good for Crypto by Mark Jamison
· Not Securities? Not So Fast: Important Nuances in the Lummis‐Gillibrand Crypto Bill by Jack Solowey
· Coin Center has filed a court challenge against the Treasury Dept. over unconstitutional financial surveillance by Jerry Brito and Peter Van Valkenburgh
· New York Puts Bitcoin Mining in the Crosshairs by Andrea O’Sullivan
· The Coming War Over Crypto Regulation by James Broughel
· New York’s crypto regulations could backfire by Matthew Mittelsteadt
