About the Event

Is It Too Late to Curtail the Power of Big Tech?

Twitter purges more than 70,000 users. Google and Amazon banish the Parler app. Facebook blocks ads promoting . . . a novel about Abraham Lincoln?

Welcome to the power of Big Tech. The tech giants—who have amassed unimaginable data on all of us—can shut down our ability to speak in an instant.

The problem has grown so acute that America’s FCC commissioner recently proclaimed that Big Tech “now has more control over more speech than any institution in history.” Even prominent liberals are sounding the alarm.

The question is: Can anything be done?

This event with Conservative Partnership Institute’s Rachel Bovard and the Cato Institute’s Will Duffield explored just how much of a threat Big Tech poses to American democracy—and about the competing ideas to curtail the tech giants’ power.

Does the federal government need to intervene to break up Big Tech? Or is decentralization the answer?

The Hudson Institute’s Marshall Kosloff moderated.

This debate was a part of the Diana Davis Spencer Debate Series and was presented by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute and the Center for the Study of Government and the Individual.

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