So 3 television networks, a couple of national news magazines, and a handful of newspapers per big city? amirite?<\/p>\n
A Biden Appointee\u2019s Troubling Views On The First Amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n When Columbia law professor Timothy Wu was appointed by Joe Biden to the National Economic Council a few weeks back, the press hailed it as great news for progressives. The author of\u00a0The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>is known as a staunch advocate of antitrust enforcement, and Biden\u2019s choice of him, along with the appointment of Lina Khan to the Federal Trade Commission, was widely seen as a signal that the new administration was assembling what\u00a0Wired\u00a0<\/em>called an \u201cantitrust all-star team<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBig Tech critic Tim Wu joins Biden administration to work on competition policy<\/a>,\u201d boomed CNBC, while\u00a0Marketwatch\u00a0<\/em>added, \u201cAnti-Big Tech crusader reportedly poised to join Biden White House<\/a>.\u201d Chicago law professor Eric Posner\u2019s piece for\u00a0Project Syndicate\u00a0<\/em>was titled \u201cAntitrust is Back in America<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/em>Posner noted Wu\u2019s appointment comes as Senator Amy Klobuchar has introduced regulatory\u00a0legislation<\/a>\u00a0that ostensibly targets companies like Facebook and Google, which a House committee last year concluded have\u00a0accrued \u201cmonopoly power<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n Wu\u2019s appointment may presage tougher enforcement of tech firms. However, he has other passions that got less ink. Specifically, Wu \u2014 who introduced the concept of \u201cnet neutrality\u201d and once\u00a0explained it to Stephen Colbert on a roller coaster<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 is among the intellectual leaders of a growing movement in Democratic circles to scale back the First Amendment. He wrote an influential September, 2017 article called \u201cIs the First Amendment Obsolete<\/a>?\u201d that argues traditional speech freedoms need to be rethought in the Internet\/Trump era. He outlined the same ideas in a 2018 Aspen Ideas Festival speech:<\/p>\n