Tag: big tech
On Monday, the House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing featuring the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Alphabet. Here are five questions the committee might ask the CEOs and my thoughts on how they might respond. Read Dr. Mark Jamison's full blog post online at AEI.
The House Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing featuring the CEOs of Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Alphabet on July 27. One purpose of the hearing appears to be to set the stage for the release of a committee staff report that, according to rumors, will recommend changing laws so that antitrust officials can pursue these [...]
Big tech is biased. It has to be. Big Tech is in the information industry, where value is created by processing data in meaningful ways. This isn’t to say that all of the accusations are accurate, nor that all biases are valuable. Rather, bias naturally emerges from human biology. The only question is what types [...]
“During the COVID-19 pandemic, digital tools have become indispensable to millions of home-bound Americans. Information technology businesses have quickly created or refined systems for distance learning, teleworking, telemedicine, news dissemination, and e-commerce. Yet, despite these successes, there are new demands to regulate companies such as Amazon, Zoom, and Facebook,” write PURC Director and Gunter Professor [...]
Could one of the casualties of COVID-19 be the myth that market share means market power? Probably not. But the economic lessons from the pandemic should at least cause myth adherents to question their faith. Read the full blog post online at AEI.