What’s at Stake with the App Store Freedom Act

What’s at Stake with the App Store Freedom Act

Americans benefit every day from the world’s most dynamic, secure, and innovative mobile platforms—Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. These ecosystems launched mobile e-commerce and continue to fuel its unprecedented growth, empowering countless entrepreneurs and enabling powerful parental controls to protect children online. But some lawmakers now want to put others in charge—namely, Washington bureaucrats and companies who have never built such…

Op-Ed: Zach Lilly: The App Store Freedom Act was written by Lina Khan. That’s bad news for kids' safety.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee is hard at work putting together a comprehensive package of legislation with the goal of improving the safety and well being of America’s children online. The final product is yet to be released, and while I don’t expect to agree with every individual piece of it, I share their goal and celebrate their commitment to good policy. As with any omnibus legislation, everyone is looking to get their legislation …