Articles
How to Force 8Chan, Reddit and Others to Clean Up
8/7/2019 - We can change Safe Harbor Laws to hold social media platforms accountable.
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION’S INCOHERENT STANCE ON COMPETITION
11/28/2017 - It’s planning to end Net Neutrality while opposing the AT&T-Time Warner merger. This doesn’t make sense.
Google’s Disturbing Influence Over Think Tanks
8/30/2017 - Reports about the tech giant’s bullying of the New America Foundation raise concerns about how it shapes policy debates.
Google Doesn’t Want What’s Best for Us
8/12/2017 - America has held a largely romantic view of the Tech industry that is at odds with reality.
Is It Time to Break Up Google?
4/22/2017 - My very early call to bring antitrust action against Google.
Do You Love Music? Silicon Valley Doesn’t
5/20/2016 - Years after Napster, musicians are still victims of digital piracy, but now it is companies like Google and SiriusXM that make the theft possible.
FORGET AT&T. THE REAL MONOPOLIES ARE GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK
12/13/2016 - While Washington frets over and AT&T-Time Warner merger, Silicon Valley giants have taken over the media business.
Why Europe got tough on Google but the U.S. couldn’t
6/28/2017 - All of the leadership on Antitrust over the tech monopolies is coming from Europe.
How the Internet financially kills musicians and other artists
5/12/2017 - The Internet has a human cost. Case in point:Levon Helm.
Can the Tech Giants Be Stopped?
7/14/2017 - Google, Facebook, Amazon and other tech behemoths are transforming the U.S. Economy and labor market, with scant public debate or scrutiny. Changing course won’t be easy.
A Letter to Millennials: Don’t Sleep Through the Revolution
4/05/2015 - It is time to wake up and begin to think about a digital renaissance.
Anonymity Brings Out the Worst In Humans
11/05/2015 - It fosters hate and racism.
Rebirth of a Nation: Can states’ rights save us from a second civil war?
11/6/2018 - Republican minority rule in the Senate will only lead to civil strife
The great digital-age swindle… and the man fighting back
03/21/2017 - He was tour manager for the Band, producer of Mean Streets… so why, at nearly 70, is Jonathan Taplin taking on Facebook and co?
Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin review – the damage done by Silicon Valley
04/27/2017 - Taplin’s starting point is the music of Levon Helm and the Band, but the fight against the spoiled brats of Google, Amazon and Facebook is much bigger
Why the 1 Percent Needs Google and Facebook
10/3/2017 - Oligarchy is hard to pull off, but manipulative social media makes the job a whole lot easier.
California is hardly ‘over.’ But it does need to make two big changes
12/1/2019 - California is showing how to stand up to the Trump administration by asserting a progressive federalism.
The tech industry is eroding copyright law. Here’s how to stop it
5/10/2017 - The Tech Monopolies are misusing Fair Use and abusing creative artists
