Opinion | A Bipartisan Plan to Limit Big Tech

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To the Editor:

Re “We Have a Approach for Congress to Rein In Large Tech,” by Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren (Opinion visitor essay, July 27):

Essentially the most heartening factor concerning the proposal for a Digital Client Safety Fee is its authorship.

After years of zero-sum legislative gridlock, to see Senators Warren and Graham collaborating is a ray of hope that governing could sometime return to the time when opposing events weren’t enemies, when every occasion introduced legitimate views to the desk and Home-Senate convention committees solid laws encompassing the very best of each views.

David Sadkin
Bradenton, Fla.

To the Editor:

Senators Lindsey Graham and Elizabeth Warren suggest a brand new federal mega-regulator for the digital economic system that threatens to undermine America’s international know-how standing.

A brand new “licensing and policing” authority would stall the continued progress of superior applied sciences like synthetic intelligence in America, leaving China and others to claw again essential geopolitical strategic floor.

America’s digital know-how sector loved exceptional success over the previous quarter-century — and offered huge funding and job progress — as a result of the U.S. rejected the heavy-handed regulatory mannequin of the analog period, which stifled innovation and competitors.

The tech corporations that Senators Graham and Warren cite (together with numerous others) happened over the previous quarter-century as a result of we opened markets and rejected the monopoly-preserving regulatory regimes that had been captured by previous gamers.

The U.S. has loads of federal bureaucracies, and lots of already oversee the problems that the senators need addressed. Their new technocratic digital regulator would do nothing however hobble America as we put together for the following nice international technological revolution.

Adam Thierer
Washington
The author is a senior fellow in know-how coverage on the free-market R Road Institute.

To the Editor:

The regulation of social media, quickly rising A.I. and the web typically is lengthy overdue. Like the phone greater than a century earlier, as any new know-how evolves from novelty to comfort to ubiquitous necessity utilized by billions of individuals, so should its regulation for the widespread good.

Jay P. Maille
Pleasanton, Calif.

To the Editor:

Re “DeSantis Acknowledges Trump’s Defeat: ‘Of Course He Misplaced’” (information article, Aug. 8):

It’s unhappy to see a politician flip towards the arduous reality solely in desperation, however that’s what the failing and flailing Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis has performed.

Mr. DeSantis shouldn’t be silly. He has identified all alongside that Joe Biden was the authentic winner of the 2020 presidential election, however till now, he hedged when requested about it, hoping to not alienate supporters of Donald Trump.

Now Mr. DeSantis says: “After all he misplaced. Joe Biden is the president.”

In at this time’s Republican Celebration, telling the inconvenient reality will diminish a candidate’s help from the die-hard people who make up the occasion’s base.

We’ve got reached a tragic level within the historical past of our nation when we’ve come to really feel {that a} politician who tells the reality is doing one thing extraordinary and laudable.

Oren Spiegler
Peters Township, Pa.

To the Editor:

Re “Layered Case in Indictment Reduces Threat” (information evaluation, entrance web page, Aug. 6):

It might be that the particular prosecutor, Jack Smith, has original an indictment ideally suited to reaching a conviction of Donald Trump. Nevertheless, even within the occasion that the trial comes earlier than the election, there may be little motive to imagine that it’ll relieve us of the scourge of Mr. Trump’s affect on American life.

First, there may be the potential of a hung jury, even in Washington, D.C. Such an final result can be handled by Trump supporters as an outright exoneration.

A conviction wouldn’t undermine his help any greater than his myriad earlier stunning transgressions. Whereas the inevitable appeals would final properly previous the election, his martyrdom would possibly enhance his electoral possibilities.

And have been he to lose the election, he would certainly declare that he misplaced solely due to these indictments. Right here he would have a robust argument as a result of so many people hope that the indictments can have exactly that impact.

The choice, that he wins the election, both earlier than or after the trial, is just too dreadful to ponder.

If there may be something that may terminate the plague of Trumpism, it’s for just a few distinguished Republicans whose seniority makes their voices vital — Mitch McConnell, Mitt Romney and George W. Bush — to talk out and unequivocally state that Donald Trump is unfit for workplace. That all of them imagine that is typically acknowledged.

In the event that they fail to defend American democracy presently, they are going to be complicit in what Trumpism does to the Republican Celebration and to the Republic.

Robert N. Cahn
Walnut Creek, Calif.

To the Editor:

Re “Taking part in Indicted Martyr, Trump Attracts In His Base” (information article, Aug. 9):

Thanks, Mr. Trump, for sacrificing your self for the higher good. And once you spend years and years and years in jail, we’ll always remember what you probably did to (oops, I imply for) us.

To the Editor:

Re “A Image Evoking Each Pleasure and Worry,” by Nicolas Rapold (Critic’s Pocket book, Arts, Aug. 1):

Richland Excessive Faculty in Washington State is in an space, extremely restricted throughout World Struggle II, the place plutonium important to constructing the primary atomic bombs was produced. As in areas of New Mexico, there have been quite a few “downwind” most cancers circumstances, in addition to leakage of contaminated water into the Columbia River basin.

Bizarrely, Richland Excessive’s athletic groups are known as the Bombers; a mushroom cloud is their image on uniforms and the health club flooring. This have to be the worst “mascot” on earth.

Nancy Anderson
Seattle

To the Editor:

Re “We’re within the Period of the ‘Prime Gun’ C.E.O.” (Sunday Enterprise, July 30):

The propensity of the present class of enterprise leaders to seize at team-building gimmicks is aware of no bounds. Simulating the function of fighter pilots at $100,000 a pop would possibly give a C.E.O. a fleeting feeling of exhilaration, however it’s a poor substitute for precise team-building.

That occurs when organizations and compensation ranges are flattened to extra down-to-earth ranges. With some C.E.O.s pulling in pay rewards which can be a whole lot, if not hundreds, of occasions greater than their median worker, team-affirming dedication within the boardroom is way from real.

Workers are usually not fooled by C.E.O.s attempting to play Prime Gun for a day, and making extra in that quick time than most staff will earn in a 12 months.

J. Richard Finlay
Toronto
The author is the founding father of the Finlay Heart for Company and Public Governance.