Protecting Children Online Is a Worthwhile Endeavor
In the digital realm as outside of it, the public has a right to insist on regulations where the safety of our kids is at stake.
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Big Tech Is Exploiting Kids Online. Congress Has To Step In
Chris Griswold makes the case for protecting children online through the Kids Online Safety Act
Talkinā (Policy) Shop: Making Social Media Safe for Kids
On this episode of Talkinā (Policy) Shop, Oren and Chris discuss how to protect kids online.
Policy Brief: Making Social Media Safe for Kids
Attack social mediaās dangerous design features
How Industrial Policy Made the Desert Bloom
A case study on the public investments behind the Israeli economic miracle
Inside The Battle To Protect Kids From Big Tech
On this episode of “The Federalist Radio Hour,” Chris Griswold, policy director at American Compass, joins Federalist Culture Editor Emily Jashinsky to discuss how history can inform today’s technology debates Read more…
Myth-Busting Silicon Valley
American Compass’s Wells King argues that Silicon Valleyās founder myth has things backward, misunderstanding the source of the regimeās power and flattering its worst instincts.
An Early Conservative Victory in the War on Big Tech
American Compass research director Wells King discusses a promising conservative bill to rein in Big Techās monopoly power.
Talkinā (Policy) Shop: Online Age Verification
On this episode of Policy in Brief, Oren Cass is joined by Chris Griswold to discuss a proposal to create an online age-verification system to keep kids safe online.
Policy Brief: An Online Age-Verification System
Congress should create a publicly provided online age verification system that would allow any person to privately and securely demonstrate their age online.
Itās Time to Protect Children from Big Tech
Big Techās social media platforms are similarly exploiting children today. And just as policymakers needed to act to protect children then, they must do the same now.
Pass the CHIPS, Please
Restrictions on investment in China are a good idea, to be sure. The taller and stronger the guardrails, the better. But holding incentives for domestic investment hostage to tougher restrictions on foreign investment may not be wise or necessary, for two reasons.
Saving Kids from Big Tech with Chris Griswold
American Compass policy director Chris Griswold discusses the historical parallels between child labor in the 19thĀ century and kidsā use of social media today, and suggests steps that policymakers can take to protect them from its harms.
Brave New Regulation
Silicon Valleyās techno-optimists insist loudly on two contradictory points. On one hand, they celebrate the Internet and its associated innovations with phrases like āparadigm shiftā and ācreative destruction,ā and celebrate themselves as the visionaries leading humanity into (unironically) a Brave New World. On the other, they reject the need for new public regulation, insisting that the legal frameworks of past eras are perfectly adequate to the task. Both cannot be true.
We Peasants of the Metaverse
As we are belatedly coming to realize, online territory must be regulatedāby people, not merely by economic laws or algorithmsābut we have no idea how or by whom.
Protecting Children from Social Media
American Compass policy director explores policy optionsĀ to protect children online with the same vigor that we protect them in the real world.
A Collective Cure to Privacy Threats
Privacy is another major casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. Governments instituted expansive surveillance programs to enable contact tracing and corral the disease. Many of these programs are here to stay, as citizens get used to them or welcome them to avoid future quarantine and lockdowns.
Donāt Leave Social Media Regulation to the Platforms, Bring in the FCC
Coming to terms with the importance of free speech means coming to terms with the reality that free speech will sometimes be used for abhorrent purposes. We protect bad speech on the grounds that the alternativeācensorshipāis even worse.
The Problem of Tech Is Bigger Than Big Tech
The early years of a technological revolution are not, generally speaking, happy ones.
Five Principles of Tech Governance
The time has come to take stock of the Information Era and to govern it.
