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Some tough questions about why governments encourage addictive, destructive behavior
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iThink Therefore iAm
Technologyâs transformation of human existence is rendering conservatism irrelevant
Unleash the Techno-Industrial State
How the United States government can advance scientific and technological progress.
Anti-Competitive Amazon with Dana Mattioli
WSJ’s Dana Mattioli joins Oren to discuss her new book, The Everything War, about Amazon’s anti-competitive practices.
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.
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
Talkinâ (Policy) Shop: Making Social Media Safe for Kids
On this episode of Talkinâ (Policy) Shop, Oren and Chris discuss how to protect kids online.
Policy Brief: Making Social Media Safe for Kids
Attack social mediaâs 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 Valleyâs founder myth has things backward, misunderstanding the source of the regimeâs 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 Techâs monopoly power.
Talkinâ (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.
Itâs Time to Protect Children from Big Tech
Big Techâs 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 19th century and kidsâ use of social media today, and suggests steps that policymakers can take to protect them from its harms.
Brave New Regulation
Silicon Valleyâs techno-optimists insist loudly on two contradictory points. On one hand, they celebrate the Internet and its associated innovations with phrases like âparadigm shiftâ and âcreative destruction,â 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 regulatedâby people, not merely by economic laws or algorithmsâbut we have no idea how or by whom.
Protecting Children from Social Media
American Compass policy director explores policy options to protect children online with the same vigor that we protect them in the real world.
