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.
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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.
Don’t 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 alternative—censorship—is 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.
The Costs of Tech Policy Inaction
Regulatory skeptics make a fundamental mistake in assuming that the United States can freely choose between greater state intervention in digital markets and a continued laissez-faire approach.
How Technology Has Changed Our Jobs, Our Privacy, and Our Brains
American Compass research director Wells King discusses the wide-ranging effects of the digital revolution in an adaptation of Lost in the Super Market: Navigating the Digital Age.
Want More Humane Technology? Look to the Supermarket
Are we the passive victims of rapacious technology? Or fully knowledgeable about how technology works and in control of its role in our lives?
Reflections on the Digital Revolution
The problems and challenges posed by what is often referred to as “Big Tech” should primarily be understood as novel instantiations of age-old issues.
Privacy, Tech Policy, And Two Sorts Of Libertarian
Micah Meadowcroft discusses the questions raised about privacy and freedom by our collection, Lost in the Super Market: Navigating the Digital Age.
Conservatives Must Tackle the Problems of the Digital Revolution
Rachel Bovard highlights American Compass’s Lost in the Super Market collection in a discussion of how public policy must be rethought in light of the digital revolution.
Oren Cass: Big Tech’s Life Changing Transformation
American Compass executive director Oren Cass joins Rising to discuss the digital era’s effects on the market and our collection Lost in the Super Market: Navigating the Digital Age
The ‘Uber Economy’ Needs Guardrails
If you are a freelancer like a lawyer or a doctor with a private practice, your experience is very different from a freelancer or contractor accessing work through online labor platforms like Upwork, Clickworker, Uber, or Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
All-Knowing Algorithms: Author Discussion
Alec Stapp (Progressive Policy Institute) and Wells King (American Compass) discuss the implications of “All-Knowing Algorithms” with Oren Cass.
Attention Economy: Author Discussion
Matthew Crawford (UVA’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture) and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss the ramifications of the “Attention Economy” with Wells King (American Compass).
Curtailing Big Tech Requires Much More Than Breaking It Up
American Compass executive director Oren Cass makes the case for disaggregating the Big Tech debate and giving greater focus to the digital age’s novel challenges.
Frictionless Exchange: Author Discussion
Wingham Rowan (Modern Markets for All) and Neil Chilson (Charles Koch Institute) discuss the advent of frictionless exchange with Wells King (American Compass).
Lost in the Super Market
Navigating the Digital Age
New Collection Calls on Policymakers to Rethink Governing in the Digital Age
PRESS RELEASE—Modern technology has reshaped markets fundamentally, requiring new policy responses to protect our values, institutions, and relationships.
Digital Is No Different
Digital media’s critics echo the same arguments and attitudes of paternalists past.
