Today’s digital age requires parents to fend off a tech-induced health crisis, contending against the allure of products engineered by the most powerful corporations in history to be maximally addictive to kids. The concerns with respect to online harms are very well documented. Indeed, there are seemingly countless studies, congressional hearings, and lawsuits all pointing […]| Digital Progress Institute
The Google Search results are in. No, not that kind of search result—the ruling in the D.C. District Court case United States v. Google, which asks what to do with Google’s illegal monopoly on internet search traffic. This case had all the makings of a summer blockbuster. Indeed, the previews were spectacular, with Judge Amit Mehta holding quite concretely last year […]| Digital Progress Institute
Strong antitrust enforcement is key to any true conservative platform, owing to our natural skepticism toward concentrated authority, public or private. President Theodore Roosevelt broke up Standard Oil. The Reagan administration broke up AT&T. Republican Senator John Sherman gave this country its first antitrust law, the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890, which we still use today. As Sherman famously said, […]| Digital Progress Institute
DPI President Joel Thayer joins Zephyr Teachout to explain how the Supreme Court is chipping away at Big Tech’s overreading of the First Amendment: “While we write from opposite ends of the political…| Digital Progress Institute
