Trump made a mess of tech policy. Here's what Biden is inheriting.

It's hard to focus on the nitty gritty of tech policy when the world is on fire. That doesn’t make Trump’s effect on tech policy and infrastructure any less alarming.

Take, for example, his fight against Big Tech in the name of “anti-conservative bias” (no, it doesn’t exist), which resulted in an assault on Section 230.

Experts say the true aim of those efforts was to undermine content moderation, and normalize the white supremacist attitudes that helped put people like Trump in power. 

Unfortunately, those allegations will have life for years to come as a form of “zombie Trumpism,” as Berin Szoka, a senior fellow at the technology policy organization TechFreedom, put it. Trump may be gone from office and Twitter. But Trump allies remain in power at federal agencies and conservative media. Read more...