Is Facebook too powerful in its influence over the American electoral process? Is Google too powerful in filtering our search algorithms? Does Twitter employ a political double standard? For our latest Newsweek “Debate,” we have two prolific commentators on tech-related issues to duke it all out.
Josh Hammer, Newsweek opinion editor, is also a syndicated columnist, of counsel at First Liberty Institute, a contributor to BlazeTV and a popular campus speaker.
This framing, however, ignores the wide-ranging and distorting impacts Big Tech has, not just on the market economy—particularly on small business—but on speech, behavior, elections and individual privacy. These are all things conservatives care about.
Maybe we were just bad electricians. But every time I hear calls for government to “fix” American tech, I remember the danger of tearing apart working but complicated systems. As my dad repeatedly said: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
