Tim Wu
Coined 'net neutrality'; Big Tech antitrust (Columbia, ex-White House).
Tim Wu is the Julius Silver Professor of Law, Science and Technology at Columbia Law School, who coined 'net neutrality' in 2002 and became a leading voice in the revival of American antitrust. He served as special assistant to the president for technology and competition policy in the Biden White House from 2021 to 2023. His books include The Master Switch, The Attention Merchants, The Curse of Bigness, and, in 2025, The Age of Extraction.
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My children have taken the replacement of our family rice cooker (with an exact replica) more seriously than I had anticipated https://t.co/1JZd1KvHRK
3y ago · 7,417 likes
The fact that this rice cooker worked for 25+ years of constant usage without fail makes me want to praise its engineers -- and the fact that the new model is identical to the old suggests they knew they got it right. https://t.co/C13sxEveQC
3y ago · 16,108 likes
The strongest case
A century of antitrust that ignored bigness itself allowed a few tech platforms to capture the economy and the public sphere; restoring the anti-monopoly tradition—and net neutrality—is about protecting competition, innovation, and democratic power, not merely lowering prices.
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Critics in the consumer-welfare tradition argue Wu's 'curse of bigness' revives a standardless approach that would chill efficiency and consumer benefits, and note that the aggressive Biden-era antitrust agenda he helped shape produced mixed results in court.
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