The day after one regulator announces an investigation into Big Tech, another gives Facebook a wet kiss. It’s all part of a pattern.
Science, Tech, Environment
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Fifty Years After the Moon Landing, Recalling One Small Misstep
Why did the first humans to set foot off Planet Earth plant the flag of only part of Planet Earth?
Posted inLaw and Justice
A Week of Reckoning for Big Tech
The platform monopolies face three hearings on Capitol Hill that could define future actions against them.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Trump Uses Supporters as Props on the Environment
Trump’s latest campaign ploy recruits ordinary people to sing his environmental praises.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Try SurveillApp!
These busy days, it’s hard to keep track of all that you’ve been doing. You may not remember what websites you’ve visited, who you’ve talked to and texted on your phone, every angle of every room in your house, and your precise location at every waking moment. Well, we’re the big web platform companies. And […]
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Inside the Congressional Staff Meeting About Libra
Staffers challenge Facebook’s happy talk about its digital currency in a briefing.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Coerced Tech Transfer: The Heart of the China Problem
Trump moved into a bipartisan policy vacuum on China. The political mainstream needs a better strategy, or Trump and China will both be the winners.
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Big Tech Investigations That Should Have Started in 2012
Two missed opportunities from the Federal Trade Commission, on Google and Facebook, led us to the monopoly crisis we face today.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Make Passengers Safer? Boeing Just Made Shareholders Richer.
And none more so than their own executives
Posted inEconomic Policy
Controversial Change to Consumer Rights Postponed
After hours of debate, the American Law Institute gives up on a radical reinterpretation of consumer contract law.
