The pandemic and vaccine rollout have highlighted where the West has lost its way; we need new defaults about information, change, and speed.
United States v. Google
The Justice Department’s lawsuit against Google is appropriately narrow, and if it fails it gives a template for Congressional action.
Anti-Monopoly vs. Antitrust
What matters about the Congressional report on tech and antitrust is that it exists, not the specific details.
The WeChat and TikTok Executive Orders, The Apple Angle, WeChat Abroad
New Executive Orders may block TikTok and WeChat from App Stores: how will Apple respond, and what is the human cost?
India, Jio, and the Four Internets
There are four Internets: China versus the U.S., and the E.U. and India. India’s potential new model rests on Jio.
The TikTok War
How TikTok exposed Facebook’s blindspot, thanks to its Chinese roots, and why those Chinese roots make TikTok a genuine concern.
Trump’s Executive Order, Section 230 In Court, Public Forums
President Trump is poised to sign an executive order that applies to social networks; its reasoning about Section 230 and public forums is not in line with judicial precedent.
Twitter and Trump, YouTube and China, Facebook and Polarization
Twitter fact-checks Trump, YouTube censors Chinese words, and Facebook reportedly declines to police polarization.
Chips and Geopolitics
TSMC showed the power of modularization, and now they are core to the U.S. national security strategy.
Unmasking Twitter
Twitter has a new policy to listen to experts about what content to limit; what happens, though, when experts are wrong?