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The U.S. Supreme Court building. (Mark Thomas, https://tinyurl.com/16z3n4rq; Pixabay, https://pixabay.com/service/license/)
Silicon Valley—led by giant technology companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Microsoft, which increasingly control our on- and off-line lives—used to be the poster child for the theory that the internet was an exception to the general need for government regulation. From John Perry Barlow’s libertarian declaration of the internet’s independence from “Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel,” to more measured but still emphatic Technology Giants and the Deregulatory First Amendment