President Joe Biden on Friday appointed Tim Wu, a Columbia University law professor and leading critic of Big Tech, to the National Economic Council as a special assistant for technology and competition policy. The move could signal that the Biden administration is prepared to challenge the size and power of tech companies like Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook.
Wu, who coined the term “net neutrality,” has been influential in shaping ideas around an open internet and has been critical of the growing power of tech platforms. In 2019, he joined…
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