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.
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Legislators in California and throughout the country say they are trying to make the internet a safer place – and limit the harassment, harm, misogyny and misinformation that have become too common…
“Too often, it is simply assumed that consumers benefit from more openness, and that shared/open platforms are the natural order of things.” — Dirk Auer
Incredibly, 2022 marks 15 years since…
We, the undersigned, write this letter to express our support for H.R. 7624, the Extending America’s Spectrum Auction Leadership Act of 2022, which would extend the Federal Communications…
From TWiT:
On This Week in Google, Leo Laporte, Shoshana Weissmann, Dan Patterson, and Jason Snell discuss how the FTC’s Lina Khan pushed to sue Meta over its attempt to buy VR company Within….
From Protocol:
What’s the biggest effect a recession could have on tech policy?
Wayne Brough:
The tech sector, like others, is retrenching in the face of an economic downturn. Recent hiring…
From Senator Steve Scalise (R-La.):
We applaud the leadership of Representative Scalise in introducing the EAVESDROP Act. This bill would empower users of voice-activated technologies such as…
We, the undersigned economic, legal, and public policy experts, write to express concern over legislative and executive branch proposals aimed at dramatically expanding government antitrust and…
Beyond the overproduced marketing videos and janky product prototypes closely associated today with “the metaverse” lies a bright and boundless future. In a pandemic-stricken world that imposes…
From Washington Examiner:
Free market advocates see this Republican dalliance with antitrust as misguided. “Many are angry with tech companies over content moderation issues such as bias,…
Over the last decade or more, there has been an increasingly bipartisan concern about the decline of local journalism, with a frequent refrain being that small newspapers are the victims of ad…
