
Digital Progress Institute
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A think tank that seeks to bridge the policy divide between #telecom and #tech through bipartisan consensus.
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https://digitalprogress.tech/ 27-07-2021 20:12:07
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For my last hurrah as Digital Progress Institute prez, I published my written testimony in favor of TX's App Store Accountability Act (w/ citations). Angela Paxton & Caroline Fairly for Texas have developed an impeccable bill that will protect kids & hold #BigTech accountable! medium.com/p/written-test…


Today, the Digital Progress Institute formally asked Speaker Mike Johnson Hakeem Jeffries Rep. Brett Guthrie & Rep. Frank Pallone to include a bill that creates a spectrum pipeline & restores the FCC’s auction authority to the budget proposal. This ensures the bipartisan goal of promoting our wireless networks


I look forward to speaking on Concurrences’s panel regarding "Operating System Interoperability" at the Digital Regulation Roundtable in Tokyo next week. There, I will provide the US’s view of competition regulation in the digital age. concurrences.com/en/evenement/d…


Proud to lead a bipartisan coalition to support U.S. Department of Justice Antitrust Division, led by Abigail Slater, having full access to merger filing fees. With major ongoing cases against deep-pocketed Google, Apple, and others, the agency can't have its hands tied by Congress.


In our second Washington Reporter edition of the week, we kicked things off with a big interview with Paolo Ardoino 🤖, the CEO of Tether, and had... - a look inside the latest Oklahoma town hall led by Rep. Stephanie Bice and Markwayne Mullin - a #VAGOV ad debuting - an exclusive on the latest

An overwhelming bipartisan Texas House of Representatives just passed the App Store Accountability Act 120-9! Congrats to Caroline Fairly for Texas for her tireless dedication to protecting kids online. Now onto Greg Abbott to sign this baby into law!!!

EXCELLENT work Digital Childhood Alliance Digital Progress Institute and of course Rep Kim Carver, the great sponsor of this bill! #Louisiana is a child protection leader! National Center on Sexual Exploitation

We thank Ted Cruz, Rep. María Elvira Salazar, and MELANIA TRUMP for making the Take It Down Act a reality. This is an essential safeguard against digital bullying and exploitation.


This The Washington Post report of the effort to enact App Store Age Verification legislation making waves in Texas, Utah, and on Capitol Hill fails to mention @melissa_M818 and Joel Thayer who are leading this bipartisan grassroots movement. s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?track…

In this episode of "Internet Safety with Donna Rice Hughes"-- Joel Thayer, President of the Digital Progress Institute joins Donna to discuss recent legislative efforts to protect children online, enforcement of anti-pornography laws and the role of tech companies in safeguarding minors.


So great speaking with my good friend Donna Rice Hughes Enough Is Enough on how states and Congress are developing bipartisan tools to protect kids online. Thank you, Donna, for having me on!

With 13 years inside the FCC and now Chief Strategist at the Digital Progress Institute, Nicholas Degani will address "What Happens to #USF when SCOTUS rules?" Today - sign up now: broadbandbreakfast.com/broadband-brea…


.Digital Progress Institute signed a bipartisan letter asking Congress to sufficiently fund Antitrust Division & FTC via HSR fees to ensure consumers are protected from harmful monopolization by the world’s largest companies, including #BigTech. Their work is essential to keep our markets serving



Big win at the Supreme Court for parents, child safety, & our freedom of expression! Thank you Attorney General Ken Paxton for taking on the fight and taking #BigPorn down! #FSCvPaxton
