Public Knowledge recognizes the need for a digital regulator to resolve issues occurring in Big Tech. Review the following resources to learn more about how a sector-specific regulator could best protect consumers.
Blog Posts
November 16, 2022: Should Algorithms Be Regulated? Part 3: Evaluating Alternative Frameworks for Regulating Algorithms
May 29, 2022: Independent, But Together: How Antitrust and Regulation Can Work Synergistically To Benefit Consumers
May 27, 2022: Big Tech Competition Bills Don’t Address Content Moderation, and That’s A Good Thing
December 21, 2021: We Can Save Local News Without Upending Copyright Law
December 16, 2021: How To Give Consumers Competition and Protect Them Too
October 29, 2021: Is This Really Big Tech’s ‘Big Tobacco’ Moment? Only Congress Can Make It So.
October 6, 2021: Frances Haugen Wants A Digital Regulator — And So Does Facebook
August 11, 2021: Observe and Report: Facebook Versus NYU Ad Observatory Proves the Need for Policy Interventions
July 21, 2021: The Privacy Debate Reveals How Big Tech’s “Transparency and User Control” Arguments Fall Flat
June 17, 2021: Can the Journalism Competition & Preservation Act Really Preserve Local Journalism? Public Knowledge Says “Probably Not.”
April 29, 2021: Are You Wielding a Discriminatory Algorithm Against Consumers? The FTC Is Coming For You — But It Can’t Act Alone
February 11, 2021: Principles to Protect Free Expression on the Internet
January 12, 2021: Facebook and Twitter Made the Right Decision. Big Tech Is Still Too Powerful.
August 13, 2020: Let the Chips Fall Where They May: The 9th Circuit Gives Free Rein to Qualcomm’s Monopoly
August 12, 2020: Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Section 230 and Civil Rights
July 7, 2020: An Ounce of Preventive Regulation is Worth a Pound of Antitrust Enforcement: The Case for Platform CPNI
February 13, 2020: Key Elements and Functions of a New Digital Regulatory Agency
September 19, 2019: The Right Way to Regulate Digital Platforms
August 28, 2019: Keeping Thumbs Off the Scale: Nondiscrimination on Digital Platforms
April 4, 2019: A Regulator to Fit the Growing Regulatory Consensus
March 13, 2019: UK Digital Competition Report Builds the Case for Platform Regulation
February 22, 2019: To Make the Tech Sector Competitive, Antitrust Is Only Half the Answer
September 6, 2018: Groups Launch Broadband Connects America Coalition to End Rural Digital Divide
July 19, 2018: Part III: Cost of Exclusion as a Proxy for Dominance in Digital Platform Regulation
July 18, 2018: Platform Regulation Part II: Defining “Digital Platform”
May 24, 2018: Due Process, and Our Approach to Dominant Online Platforms
Press Releases
May 16, 2023: Letter to Senate Judiciary Committee for AI Oversight Hearing
March 7, 2023: Public Knowledge President and CEO Chris Lewis To Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee on Restoring Competition to Digital Markets
May 19, 2022: New Public Knowledge Paper Outlines How Regulation and Antitrust Law Can Work Synergistically To Rein In Big Tech
May 19, 2022: Public Knowledge Applauds Welch Digital Regulator Bill, Urges Commerce Committee Hearings
May 12, 2022: Public Knowledge Applauds Bill Creating Digital Regulator To Rein In Big Tech
November 30, 2020: Public Knowledge Applauds New UK Digital Regulator Coming Next Year
July 7, 2020: New Public Knowledge Paper Urges Congress to Adopt Law Protecting Vendor Data from Digital Platforms
July 1, 2020: U.K. Competition Authority Shows the Need for a Digital Regulator in the U.S.
March 9, 2020: Gene Kimmelman to Testify Before Senate Judiciary Committee on Digital Platform Competition
September 19, 2019: The Right Way to Regulate Digital Platforms
May 8, 2019: Public Knowledge and Roosevelt Institute Launch Guidebook to Regulating Digital Platforms
April 4, 2019: A Regulator to Fit the Growing Regulatory Consensus
May 24, 2018: Public Knowledge Releases Paper on Online Platforms and Due Process
July 18, 2017: Washington Center for Equitable Growth Launches Antitrust Paper on Digital Communications
Other Public Knowledge Content
Tell Congress to Create a Regulatory Agency for Digital Platforms (Action)
March 13, 2024: Digital Regulator: How To Rein in Big Tech (Factsheet)
March 7, 2023: Chris Lewis Senate Judiciary Subcommittee Testimony on Restoring Competition to Digital Markets
May 19, 2022: A Lesson From the Landmark AT&T Breakup: Both a Sector-specific Regulator and Antitrust Enforcers Were Needed
July 7, 2020: Mind Your Own Business: Protecting Proprietary Third-Party Information from Digital Platforms
May 8, 2019: The Case for the Digital Platform Act
May 8, 2019: The Case for the Digital Platform Act: Executive Summary
May 24, 2018: Even Under Kind Masters: A Proposal to Require that Dominant Platforms Accord Their Users Due Process
Key Media and Opinions
April 28, 2023: Artificial intelligence is another reason for a new digital agency (Brookings Institute)
May 12, 2022: Senator introduces bill giving Big Tech its own federal watchdog (Washington Post)
May 12, 2022: Big Tech would get its own regulator under new Senate bill (Washington Post)
May 8, 2019: To regulate digital platforms in the future, we should look to the past (World Economic Forum)
External Resources
January 24, 2024: Bipartisan Senate group letter pushing for a digital regulator
February, 2023: UNESCO’s Guidance for regulating digital platforms: a multistakeholder approach
April 15, 2022: Time For a New Digital Regulatory Authority
August 20, 2020: New Digital Realities; New Oversight Solutions
May 8, 2019: The Case for the Digital Platform Act: Foreword by Tom Wheeler
May 8, 2019: How To Take Big Tech (Forbes)