Tim Wu’s The Age of Extraction chronicles the way Big Tech platforms have turned against their users.
Tim Wu
Posted inLaw and Justice
Q&A: Tim Wu on the U.S. v. Google Trial
Google claims its product is just superior. Says the former White House competition czar: ‘We now can see that a lot of those arguments are horseshit.’
Posted inLaw and Justice
The Case for Judge Tim Wu
Biden’s administration, like his Democratic predecessors, isn’t prioritizing diversity in worldview when selecting federal judges.
Posted inEconomic Policy
A Pitched Battle on Corporate Power
Biden’s expansive executive order seeks to restore competition in the economy. It’s been a long, slow road to get the whole government on board—but there are some formidable gains.
Posted inTAP
Progressives Run the Table on Regulatory Posts
Today on TAP: Khan and Kanter and Wu—plus Steele and Omarova
Posted inCabinet Watch
Biden’s Team of Rivals
His top economic appointments are two steps forward, one step backward.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The New Economic Concentration
The competition that justifies capitalism is being destroyed—by capitalists.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
The Manichean World of Tim Wu
For the past dozen years, several distinguished thinkers about law and technology have warned that a golden age of Internet freedom may be about to close. The most influential alarm-ringer has been Lawrence Lessig, who argued in his 1999 book, Code, that under corporate and governmental pressures, the Net could be flipped to serve top-down […]