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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From The Hill:
Congress could learn a lot from the DSA, as several experts have pointed out.
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…
From The Upload:
“EU Advances Groundbreaking Law for Online Platforms — U.S. Lawmakers Should Pay Attention” by 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…