By Aden Siebel (PO ’21) With an increasingly complex field of technological privacy and ethics concerns, government regulation of tech giants has made surprising progress. International lawmakers have implemented significant policy and punished these companies, and while the U.S. federal system has been slower, Congress has increasingly threatened executives and called for industry reform...
By Aden Siebel (PO ’21) It’s no secret that Congress is woefully out of touch with modern technology. With mounting scandals bringing an increasing number of tech executives in front of Congress, lawmakers have proven time and again to be uninformed and ill-equipped. From Facebook to Google, executives have faced interrogation that is unprepared at best, perhaps most famously represented by...
By Aden Siebel (PO ’21) The gun control debate in America has pivoted to a focus on mental health. Prominent politicians, especially Republicans, have framed the increasingly common mass shootings as an issue of mental health, not gun control.[1] President Donald Trump in particular has used such rhetoric after school shootings, issuing statements after the Florida attack that “[w]e are committed...
