Tag: big tech
President Joe Biden wants to have your online cake and eat it too. His 2023 State of the Union address included numerous announcements of controls on industries and types of citizens. Each deserves to be critiqued, because a government-run economy becomes a failed economy. But I will limit my comments here to his plans for [...]
Social media content moderation has stirred controversies for a number of years. “Fake news” on social media has been decried as a threat to democracy. Politicians pressured social media companies in the run-up to the 2020 election, and cries of misinformation have been frequent in the policy debate over COVID-19. Concerns with political bias by [...]
It’s hard to see who benefits from the European Commission’s (EC) latest attack on Meta. Certainly not consumers. In mid-December 2022, the EC informed Meta of the commission’s “preliminary view that the company breached EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in the markets for online classified ads.” If the EC finds Meta guilty, Meta can [...]
Like you, I use multiple means for receiving and sharing information. In the past week, I’ve used my computers, smartphone, other screens, and old-fashioned in-person human interaction to communicate with tech and energy consultants, business executives, farmers, elected officials, scholars, and even artificial intelligence robots. I live in these multiple channels to have rich relationships, [...]
Rumor has it that sponsors of the Open App Markets Act (OAMA) are rushing the legislation through Congress before the end of the current session. I won’t speculate on why the sponsors are in a hurry. But I will challenge their claims that the smartphone and app industries need a regulatory rescue, even if the [...]