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Joel L. Thayer

Joel L. Thayer

Joel Thayer, President of the Digital Progress Institute and a tech and telecom attorney based in Washington, D.C.

The Antitrust Cases That MatterIf Trump doesn’t stand firm, the American people are the sacrifice Big Tech is more than willing to accept.Why Apple’s Privacy Track Record Hurts Google’s CaseThe company’s data privacy claims clash with their Big Tech allianceTikTok’s First Amendment RuseHow the Court can restore sanity back to the First Amendment