April 9, 2020
To give you a flavor of just how tone deaf the tech lobby is, consider the recent plea from Google-funded AEI entitled “COVID-19 has demonstrated the folly of some tech policies.” Among other items, AEI calls for antitrust agencies to drop investigations into platforms like Google because “left to their devices” the agencies “could destroy the very systems that provide critical functions during the crisis.” For AEI, it is as if Google is the Internet; as if Google is single-handedly saving the world from COVID-19, a billion dollars at a time. As if, yet again, Google should be above the law. You can read more here.
Unlike the Big Tech monopolies, the Internet Accountability Project pledges to never sell or share your personal information, which is your property.