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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For platform regulation Congress should use a European cheat sheet
Chris Riley
From The Hill:
Congress could learn a lot from the DSA, as several experts have pointed out.
Podcast: Round Table – What Section 230 Actually Does
Shoshana Weissmann
From Daily Tech News Show:
Are Facebook and Twitter protected by a shield that stops them from being responsible for any of their content? We bring on Mike Masnick from TechDirt and Shoshana…
ICYMI: The Best in Tech Policy for December 2020
Chris Riley
From The Upload:
“EU Advances Groundbreaking Law for Online Platforms — U.S. Lawmakers Should Pay Attention” by Chris Riley
How taking Parler down could actually help save the internet
Chris Riley
More than a few people noticed when, at midnight Pacific time Monday, Amazon Web Services suspended its hosting for the social network Parler. Just days before, Google and Apple removed the Parler…
Podcast: What Do We Do About Tech Censorship? with Canyon Brimhall
Canyon Brimhall
From Hold These Truths with Dan Crenshaw:
How do we get big tech companies like Twitter to abide by the spirit of the 1st Amendment, or at least moderate their users’ content by a set of clear…
The Future of Section 230: How Trump and Biden’s Fight Could Fundamentally Change the Way the Internet Works
Daisy Soderberg-Rivkin
From Independent:
Legislation that banned unlawful sex on internet platforms simply drove sex workers into more dangerous environments, both offline with a rise in prostitution-related arrests…
Podcast: Would repealing Section 230 stop Big Tech censorship? Would it make the internet better?
Jeffrey Westling
From The Pete Kaliner Show:
When Twitter and Facebook censored the New York Post social media accounts and blocked the newspaper’s story about Hunter Biden before the election, calls to repeal…
Marco Rubio facing furious backlash after calling Dr. Anthony Fauci a liar and an elitist
Caleb Watney
From Raw Story:
“If we could rapidly increase production of medical masks, public health officials wouldn’t be forced to make this tradeoff between effectiveness and availability,” Politico…
What Is Section 230 and Why Do Trump and His Allies Want to Repeal It?
Shoshana Weissmann
From Foundation for Economic Education:
Shoshana Weissmann, the head of Digital Media and Fellow at the R Street Institute, recently wrote a punchy (and hilarious) article illustrating this…
Averting Climate Change: Lessons from the New Deal
Caleb Watney
From Sunrise Movement:
If you’ve been following the news about COVID, you’ll know that – after ongoing pressure – Trump leveraged the Defense Production Act (albeit not very well) to…