Items tagged "Nondiscrimination"
How the House Antitrust Bills Preserve Platforms’ Editorial Discretion and Spur Consumer Choice
August 11, 2021 Big Tech , Big Tech Bills , Content Moderation , interoperability , Legislation , NondiscriminationIn late June, the House Judiciary Committee voted to approve, on a bipartisan basis, a six-part package of legislation designed to restrict dominant digital platforms from leveraging their power to disadvantage competitors or promote their own lines of business unfairly. We hope the bills will eventually have counterparts or companions from the Senate. Our purpose […]
Read MoreHouse Antitrust Subcommittee Proposes Strong Bipartisan Legislation to Rein In Big Tech
June 11, 2021 Antitrust , Big Tech , interoperability , Legislation , misinformation , Nondiscrimination , Platform Competition , Platform Regulation , PrivacyToday, the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law introduced a bipartisan package of bills to invigorate competition against dominant digital platforms.
Read MoreWorking with the 117th Congress to Deliver on a Consumer-Focused Tech Agenda
February 9, 2021 Broadband Access , Broadband Affordability , Broadband Deployment , Congress , controlled digital lending , Data Protection , digital equity , DMCA , DMCA Reform , Federal Privacy Legislation , interoperability , Legislation , Lifeline , misinformation , Nondiscrimination , Notice and Takedown , Platform Competition , Platform Regulation , Privacy , Right to Repair , Section 512The 117th Congress has convened at an inflection point in our nation’s history, unprecedented in more than a century. These are serious times, with the country going into its eleventh month of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment running high, and families facing so many challenges in their work and personal lives. Such times demand […]
Read MoreFacebook and Twitter Made the Right Decision. Big Tech Is Still Too Powerful.
January 12, 2021 Big Tech , Competition Policy , Content Moderation , interoperability , Nondiscrimination , Platform Competition , Platform Regulation , Section 230What a week. On Tuesday, if you stayed up late enough (or woke at 3 a.m. Wednesday morning to a screaming baby, as I did) we saw Democrats win control of the Senate via a special election in Georgia. On Wednesday, we witnessed an armed insurrection on the Capitol Building, directed by President Trump in […]
Read MoreAMP It Up: As Its Antitrust Critics Grow Louder, Google Dials Back One of Its Most Controversial Policies
November 24, 2020 Google , journalism , Nondiscrimination , Platform Competition , Self-PreferencingFull disclosure: this blog post was not written with just the best prose and policy prescriptions in mind. There was something else I considered, something shared by everyone from the smallest of bloggers to the New York Times: how to optimize ranking in Google’s search algorithm. As Google is the dominant search engine that people […]
Read MoreKey Elements and Functions of a New Digital Regulatory Agency
February 13, 2020 Antitrust , Digital Agency , digital platforms , interoperability , Nondiscrimination , Platform Competition , Platform RegulationThis piece was originally published by the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, where Gene Kimmelman is a Senior Fellow. It’s an evolution on the ideas first laid out in Gene’s 2019 piece, “The Right Way to Regulate Digital Platforms.” Both are part of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project’s efforts to explain and disseminate […]
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