Amid Russia’s war in Ukraine, the world has witnessed the unparalleled role that U.S. technology plays in advancing the democratic values of freedom, transparency and openness across the globe. […]
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We Can’t Let China Win Global Tech Battle
As U.S. policymakers consider legislation to rein in Big Tech, they need to seriously consider how these anti-innovation efforts could both undo America’s global competitive edge in technology and in the process, hand China a permanent advantage that we will be unable to overtake. […]
Don’t Let American Technology Suffer The Same Fate As Manufacturing
As a Midwest native, my passion to protect America’s technology edge is rooted in my front row seat to the lasting damage caused to our country’s manufacturing sector by short-sighted policy decisions. […]
Working With Innovators Will Help Bolster America’s Tech Edge
As they review the harrowing headlines concerning the rise in cyber aggressions, lawmakers must also heed the important findings of the Atlantic Council’s new report […]
Concerning Report Spotlights Need to Protect an Open Internet
Following Free Speech Week, it is as important as ever to protect the first right enshrined in the Bill of Rights — our country’s defining difference across the globe — given the findings of a sobering new internet freedom report. […]
Preserve America’s Cyber Infrastructure
The United States, EU, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and other influential nations and organizations came together this week to confront the Chinese government for its alleged involvement in a multitude of hostile cyber activities. The attacks included a cynical and far-reaching ransomware attack on a major American technology company – an action that has serious and lasting ramifications on the global cybersecurity landscape. […]
Cuba’s Internet Cutoff Highlights Fragility of Free Expression Online
Though a mere 90 miles of sea separate our country from Cuba, the gulf between our approaches to freedom of expression and the digital tools that facilitate it couldn’t be wider – or more consequential.
As thousands of Cubans take to the streets in a courageous fight against six decades of repression, anti-government protests continue to lay bare the fragility of this fundamental freedom in the 21st century. […]
Congress can’t allow China to ‘own America’ by the year 2035
Last month, lawmakers in the House unveiled a series of sweeping antitrust proposals aimed at building “A Stronger Online Economy.” We’re deeply concerned the legislative package would succeed in doing just that – albeit for foreign adversaries rather than for the United States. Beijing, in particular, stands to become the biggest beneficiary of anti-competition bills that could erase the technological edge our country currently enjoys and impose deleterious downstream effects on the American economy and entrepreneurial ecosystem. […]
Talk Must Turn Into Action To Combat China’s Growing Tech Influence
President Biden’s first foreign trip rightly focused on the areas in which the United States and Europe can cooperate and address the challenges facing democratic nations. It also rightly focused on the growing threat China poses to our global economy and security, particularly as it relates to technology and the internet. […]
Big Tech Innovators Buoyed Small Business During Lockdowns
From lockdowns to layoffs, the COVID-19 pandemic has levied an enormous economic toll for more than a year. As scores of harrowing statistics reveal, COVID’s acute impact on American businesses and the workers they employ has been both material and manifest. […]