Issue brief

Technology and Market Power

How should America restrain gatekeeping without crushing innovation?

Our position

Enforce privacy and data minimization; support portability and interoperability where justified; protect right to repair; require transparent platform appeals; prosecute deception; and limit government coercion of private speech moderation.

Why it matters

Size alone is not a crime. Durable market power plus harm is. Entrepreneurship deserves defense; exclusionary conduct does not.

Evidence

Public support for stronger tech regulation is measurable but modest. Remedies must be proportionate, evidence-based, and appealable.

Strongest objection

Breakups are not automatic. Structural remedies require due process and proof of harm, not populist theater.

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