Opinion
To Regulate Social Media, Forget Net Neutrality
Under the Biden administration, we risk reruns of past telco battles when what we need is new focus on internet-specific issues and a government agency to oversee them.
Roddy Lindsay (@RoddyLindsay) is the founder and CEO of Zabit, an AI-enabled health services startup.
The conservative Federalist Society’s virtual national convention recently hosted a panel on “Regulating Social Media” featuring a prominent cast of government officials and outside experts. I tuned in, expecting a robust discussion on privacy, data portability, algorithmic bias and content moderation.
It was a disappointment. They spent most of the time relitigating the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile and the net neutrality debate around broadband internet service providers.