Tim Wu – a law professor at Columbia University – is the man who coined the term “net neutrality". Tim Wu has therefore joined the Biden administration, where he will work on technology and competition at the National Economic Council.
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"I am pleased to announce that I will be joining the Biden White House to address Technology and Competition Policy at the National Economic Council."
Wu is a prominent voice on the internet, and one of the best-known advocates of free and open Internet.
For years he advocated the concept of internet neutrality - the idea that the internet should be free of restrictions or control by the government or the companies that provide it.
It is also a voice that stands out in recent years for the theme of antitrust laws against big tech companies like Google, Facebook and Amazon, arguing that these companies have become huge and no longer have competition.
In his 2018 book, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age, he advocates a return to 20th-century Teddy Roosevelt-style antitrust divisions.
"I think they hit technology innovation"
Η choice Wu's decision is significant, and likely signals efforts by the new Biden administration to more aggressively curb the ever-growing power of big tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook.
