Book Launch: Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back
Wednesday, April 1, 4 – 5:30 p.m.
Book launch and author talk: Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back by Olivier Sylvain
Speakers:
Olivier Sylvain, Fordham Law School
Tim Wu, Columbia Law School
About the Book:
Reclaiming the Internet is an indictment of how Big Tech cloaks ruthless commercial exploitation in the language of free speech. Olivier Sylvain, a leading legal scholar and former senior advisor at the Federal Trade Commission, exposes the incentives behind social media design, revealing how they trap users in cycles of addiction, misinformation, and harm—from fatal TikTok challenges to AI chatbot codependency.
With clarity and urgency, Sylvain dismantles the libertarian mythology that shaped internet law and calls for a new legal regime that protects users over platforms. Reclaiming the Internet is a powerful, original intervention into the most urgent policy debate of our time—what it will take to reclaim the digital public sphere.
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