Olivier Sylvain — RECLAIMING THE INTERNET: How Big Tech Took Control- And How We Can Take It Back - with Nancy Scola

How the Internet lost its way--and how to fix itRecovering 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. Recovering 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.Olivier Sylvain is a professor of law at Fordham University, a former senior advisor at the Federal Trade Commission, and a Senior Policy Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute. An expert in communications, administrative, and internet law, his work focuses on platform accountability, consumer protection, and the intersection of technology, speech, and democracy.Sylvain is in conversation with Nancy Scola, a veteran Washington D.C.-based reporter and journalist whose work often focuses on the intersections of technology, economics, politics, and policy for publications like New York, Wired, The Information, and The Atlantic. She is a contributing writer at both POLITICO Magazine and Washingtonian Magazine. Nancy also teaches about the history, theory, and practice of journalism, including as a lecturer at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. Earlier in her career, Nancy was a senior technology reporter at POLITICO and a staff writer at the Washington Post. Before going into journalism, Nancy worked in politics and government, including as a professional staffer member on the House Committee on Government Reform.PURCHASE: https://politics-prose.com/book/9781967190126?ic_referral=aMdPEGq7lGenNEG0Q9msTt-fjF8_UXqLEqnQTyn7F6UwM4fphlerf4WHrK7E-iBk_W9YEEc5m5vT-l-SI7DOGJUPxZeUJFpaox80wVnB1pFH0JsDWf6y7xEHmwrB4jOBwnvTt8M