Tag: Policy
VCs to antitrust officials: We’d rather take our chances than see tech regulated
Last week at Stanford, antitrust officials from the U.S. Department of Justice organized a day-long conference that engaged numerous venture capitalists in conversations about big tech. The DOJ wanted to hear from VCs about whether they believe there’s still an opportunity for startups to flourish alongside the likes of Facebook…
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Facebook asks for a moat of regulations it already meets
It’s suspiciously convenient that Facebook already fulfills most of the regulatory requirements it’s asking governments to lay on the rest of the tech industry. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Brussels lobbying the European Union’s regulators as they form new laws to govern artificial intelligence, content moderation, and more. But…
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Facebook pushes EU for dilute and fuzzy Internet content rules
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is in Europe this week — attending a security conference in Germany over the weekend where he spoke about the kind of regulation he’d like applied to his platform ahead of a slate of planned meetings with digital heavyweights at the European Commission. “I do think…
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation challenges donors to address local problems
‘I like to think about community as an ecosystem,’ says CEO Nicole Taylor Scott Bade 8 hours Scott Bade Contributor Scott Bade is a former speechwriter for Mike Bloomberg and co-author of “More Human: Designing a World Where People Come First.” More posts by this contributor The tech of giving…
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‘Capitalism generates a lot of wealth depending on the situation’
In an extended interview, writer Ben Tarnoff weighs the ethics of technology Greg Epstein 8 hours Greg Epstein Contributor Greg M. Epstein is the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT, and the author of The New York Times bestselling book “Good Without God.” Described as a “godfather to the [humanist]…
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Getting tech right in Iowa and elsewhere requires insight into data, human behavior
Hollie Russon Gilman Contributor More posts by this contributor What can cities learn from Amazon HQ? Millennials could be the answer to government malaise Tara Dawson McGuinness Contributor Tara Dawson McGuinness, a former senior advisor to President Obama, is a Senior Fellow at New America and teaches public policy in…
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