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 Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund funding model is “unsustainable.” So argues economist Jim Prieger in a white paper for DPI examining eight different models for funding the Fund. Relying on the optimal taxation literature, he explains: The status quo is horrendously inefficient, with consumers bearing an excess burden of $2.1 billion, or about […]| 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
