Category: Director’s Take
The federal government is on a path to waste over $30 billion of the $65 billion it plans to spend over the next few years to expand broadband services throughout the nation. Florida can take steps to keep that waste from happening by assuming a leadership role among states determined that their citizens should receive [...]
Rumor has it that the Senate Judiciary Committee is ready to mark up Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s (D-MN) Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA). The News/Media Alliance expects the law to force tech companies to give local news publishers billions of dollars. Klobuchar and her cosponsors say the legislation would save these publishers from an existential [...]
AEI’s technology policy scholars have been hard at work this summer. Antitrust cases at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), continued debate around Big Tech regulatory proposals in Congress, a massive bipartisan investment in semiconductor chip manufacturing, and the rollout of a national broadband infrastructure funding program are just a few examples of recent policy developments [...]
Two bills currently being considered by the U.S. Senate—the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (AICOA) and the Open App Markets Act (OAMA)—would, if passed and signed into law, result in significant redesigns of technology platforms of the U.S. companies Apple, Meta (owner of Facebook), Alphabet (owner of Google), and Amazon. Microsoft might also be [...]
This headline from Pew Research Center should be enough to give the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) pause and maybe even lead the agency to reverse course in its proceedings against Facebook’s parent Meta: "TikTok has established itself as one of the top online platforms for U.S. teens, while the share of teens who use Facebook [...]