In early 2020, as a California privacy law came into effect and other states toyed with similar legislation, I talked with a heavy hitter at one of the big tech companies about…
By Will Rinehart | April 23, 2024
As laid out in my last blog, Huawei continues to demonstrate that it has maneuvered, at least partially, around US-imposed restrictions on advanced chips. Last week, it introduced a more advanced version of…
By Claude Barfield | April 23, 2024
It is Earth Day 2024, an annual exercise in self-applause that always is too much fun because of the inanities, hypocrisies, mendacities, and sheer stupidity of the Earth Day slogans, arguments, propaganda, and exhortations. And also because of the embarrassing spectacle…
By Benjamin Zycher | April 22, 2024
Those who look forward to Apple (yet again) redefining the technological horizon, like it did with the iPhone, may need to temper their expectations. The US Department of Justice (DOJ)…
By Mark Jamison | April 19, 2024
As the country races into its digital transformation, the expansion of broadband across the United States has become a pivotal undertaking. There are numerous state and federal efforts, fueled largely by over $70…
By Mark Jamison | April 19, 2024
During the tumultuous cancel-culture summer of 2020, police officer George Forbush publicly vented his anger about the beating a person suffered at a Black Lives Matter (BLM) march. After watching video of the…
By Clay Calvert | April 16, 2024
Toward the end of this month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hold a vote to reinstate a set of rules for internet providers. Consisting of 434 pages and resembling a 2015…
By Will Rinehart | April 16, 2024
Little more than two years from the last significant attempt to modernize our national privacy law in the failed American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA), US House Committee on Energy and…
By John Bailey | April 15, 2024
On April 25, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will vote to reinstate net neutrality rules and reclassify broadband providers as Title II common carriers. Since the agency signaled its intentions…
By Daniel Lyons | April 12, 2024
Center for Technology, Science, and Energy AEI, Auditorium1789 Massachusetts Avenue NWWashington, DC 20036 Contact Information Event: Owen O’Brien-Powers | Owen.O’Brien-Powers@aei.org | 503.449.4641Media: MediaServices@aei.org | 202.862.5829 Event Summary On April 11, AEI’s Jim Harper was joined by…
By Jim Harper | April 11, 2024
As all good policy practitioners know, all regulatory activities are constrained by the agency problem: Those who are being regulated know far more of what is going on than those…
By Bronwyn Howell | April 11, 2024
The dreary weather this week in Chicago has been dispiriting, making me feel listless and in need of a mood lift. Nothing does the trick like two of my favorite…
By L. Lynne Kiesling | April 9, 2024
Fashioning constitutional rules isn’t easy; Justice Barrett and the Court deserve kudos for their efforts to establish a rule to determine if public officials' activities constitute state action.
By Clay Calvert | April 9, 2024
TikTok is a perfect villain. The app seems to be connected with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It’s where Osama Bin Laden’s manifesto picked up traction and where antisemitic tropes run amok. TikTok’s impact…
By Will Rinehart | April 9, 2024
The concept of “net neutrality”— that internet service providers (ISPs) should treat all data on the internet equally — fails to acknowledge the realities of network management and the benefits…
By Shane Tews | April 9, 2024