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To unleash progress, excessive vetoes need to be restrained
Too many actors have veto rights over what gets built, slowing development and progress. We need to get serious about solving it.
Will Rinehart
Apr 7
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As if we needed more evidence there's a privacy-competition tradeoff
Meta's bad quarter underscores the disproportionality in digital markets, small changes on privacy can have outsized impacts on competition
Will Rinehart
Mar 3
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A progress report on the Emergency Broadband Benefit program
As part of a larger analysis of this program, I just released new county-level data alongside two maps that break down what's happening.
Will Rinehart
Nov 5, 2021
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This one simple regulation will solve every teen's problems online
The Senate hauled in Facebook to explains its research on teens. At some point, we will need to admit that our problems are partly caused by…
Will Rinehart
Oct 8, 2021
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The just say no campaign was a good idea. It just should have been applied to social media and called tethics.
exformation 8 | Space capitalism + a dive into the infrastructure bill + more
Will Rinehart
Aug 27, 2021
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There might be too much advertising, but not for the reasons you think
exformation #7 | An infrastructure deal is struck, President Biden pulls back comments that social media sites are killing people, Sen Klobuchar files a…
Will Rinehart
Jul 30, 2021
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There might be too much advertising, but not for the reasons you think
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The 15 hour workweek is a dream in search of economic roots
The FTC is changing, big tech isn't a monolith, iOS 14.5 shifts the ad ecosystem + much more
Will Rinehart
Jul 19, 2021
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This house believes in science and so it believes in human challenge trials
exformation #5 | Trump sues Twitter and Facebook, President Biden drops a new EO on competition, Dourado tackles geothermal, and much more.
Will Rinehart
Jul 13, 2021
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Every way of seeing (like a platform) is also a way of not seeing
Courts put the hold on Florida's social media bill and cut down the FTC case against Facebook.
Will Rinehart
Jul 7, 2021
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Should the FDA make aging a disease?
The House moves on antitrust and an infrastructure deal seems to have been reached. Plus much, much, more in tech policy news.
Will Rinehart
Jun 28, 2021
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Instead of being eradicated, should mosquitoes be vaccinated?
So many bills in Congress + INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK!
Will Rinehart
Jun 21, 2021
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Inequality in the attention economy has its benefits
Congress puts antitrust, broadband, and common carrier regulations on the table last week. My deep dive explores inequality in the attention economy.
Will Rinehart
Jun 14, 2021
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