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To Stop Tech Oligarchs, Regulate What Powers AI
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To Stop Tech Oligarchs, Regulate What Powers AI

There is a reasonable cause for concern about the rapid and largely unregulated development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) over the past few years. The introduction of…

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April 7, 2026
Blue States, Ignore Trump. Double Down on AI Regulation.
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Blue States, Ignore Trump. Double Down on AI Regulation.

  73 percent of voters want both their federal and state governments to regulate AI, but last week, Trump decided to listen to Big Tech instead.…

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December 16, 2025
The Trump Administration Is Still Bad News for Big Tech
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The Trump Administration Is Still Bad News for Big Tech

Donald Trump will return to Washington in less than two months. For Big Tech, the upcoming transition holds enormous stakes for their hopes to escape recent…

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December 10, 2024
The Saga of Hunter Biden’s Infamous Laptop, and Why Big Tech Censorship Fuels the Right
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The Saga of Hunter Biden’s Infamous Laptop, and Why Big Tech Censorship Fuels the Right

  On October 14, 2020, just weeks before the November 2020 presidential election, the New York Post published an article exposing damaging content from Hunter Biden’s…

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April 11, 2022
Platform or Publisher: Big Tech Wants to Have its Cake and Eat it Too
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Platform or Publisher: Big Tech Wants to Have its Cake and Eat it Too

The tide of public opinion has finally turned against Big Tech. After years of amassing a globalized oligopoly and unfettered dominance over cyberspace, the behemoth technology companies seem poised to be subjected to the strictest regulatory scrutiny since the dot-com bubble burst in 2000-2001.

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November 12, 2019
Interoperability: How Breaking Up Big Tech Could Actually Work
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Interoperability: How Breaking Up Big Tech Could Actually Work

There has been a lot of discussion recently regarding the market power of Big Tech companies and what can be done about it

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October 8, 2019

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