R Street’s Technology and Innovation policy program conducts research and advocacy around the public policy frameworks that govern both established and emerging technologies. Our goal is to push back against laws and regulations that impede economic progress or individual liberty, and to advance policy solutions that allow technology to move at the speed of innovation.
Technology & Innovation
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How Slate Ranked the World’s Most Evil Tech Companies
Charles Duan
From Washingtonian:
In the end, about forty people, including Charles Duan of the R Street Institute, Brian Krebs of the publication Krebs on Security, and Georgetown Law professor Julie…
Analysts skeptical as state challenge to Sprint/T-Mobile nears conclusion
Tom Struble
From S&P Global:
However, Tom Struble, technology policy manager at the R Street Institute, a free-market policy think tank, still believes the deal is likely to go through. He noted that…
, CircleID
Here’s How We Can Truly #SaveDotOrg
Mike Godwin
Many of my friends in the civil-liberties and Internet-law communities have been criticizing the Internet Society’s agreement to sell the Public Interest Registry, which administers the .ORG…
, Slate
The Evil List: Which tech companies are doing the most harm?
Charles Duan
From Slate:
Our respondents say: “The one surprise in my list may be Disney—though it obviously is like many other tech firms in aggressively pursuing copyrights. Two answers to this: First,…
Public Knowledge Joins Amicus Brief Urging Supreme Court to Overturn Federal Circuit in Google v Oracle
Charles Duan
From Public Knowledge:
Today, Public Knowledge joined the R Street Institute and the Niskanen Center in filing an amicus brief at the Supreme Court in the case of Google v Oracle. The case asks…
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT
The Java SE declarations of this case are simply a language of commands. As an application programming interface, or API, they exhibit features common to any language: a…
Introduction
On behalf of the R Street Institute (R Street), we respectfully submit these comments in response to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Request for Comments on…
Immigrants Built Silicon Valley
Caleb Watney
From Libertarianism:
Without immigrants, Silicon Valley would be a shell of what it is today. Yet bad restrictionist policies threaten to undermine American dominance in tech and stymie…
, ZD Net
The Supreme Court will decide software development’s future in Google v. Oracle
Charles Duan
From ZD Net:
Ironically enough, Charles Duan, Director of Technology and Innovation Policy at the R Street Institute, a Washington, DC non-profit think tank and Google ally, recently argued…
January 8, 2020
Hon. Janice Schakowsky, Chairwoman
Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce
House Energy & Commerce Committee
U.S. House of Representatives
2125 Rayburn House…