What role must governments play in sustaining the future of media

My address to the UN called for Big Tech break-up, a global tax regimen, and for the legal playing field to be flattened to enable truth to flourish...

This week I addressed the United Nations in Geneva on the future of media, AI, and the threat Big Tech presents to truth and democracy.

I could have spoken for hours about Google’s dismal new AI search, Meta’s mission to hand the future to AGI, but instead, my focus was on the failure of government.

Specifically, how Section 230 broke the market for media and made baloney at scale into a billion-dollar business model.

How failures to make tech pay tax gave them the keys to the future and sent the arbiters of premium content into a spiral of debt and desperation.

And how their errors of the past can now be fixed, and democracy saved, but only if they act quickly.

I’m publishing my address in full below. Time was tight so I didn’t get the chance to go as deep as I would have liked, but it’s a start. Let me know what I missed.

Before we get to it though, I’m building a bro-mance with the US Justice Department’s chief antitrust enforcer Jonathan Kanter.

It’s a bit awks as my wife’s already co…