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The Liberty Times Editorial: Taiwanese take pride in Tim Wu On March 5, the White House announced that Columbia University professor Tim Wu (吳修銘), a second-generation Taiwanese American, was to become US President Joe Biden’s special assistant for technology and competition policy, and would be working for the White House’s National Economic Council. The appointment has attracted a lot of attention. Wu specializes in antitrust, intellectual property and telecommunications law. White House press secretary Jennifer Psaki said that Biden has made it clear that he intends to stand up to...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Tim Wu, the bard of big tech, has written multiple books about the rise and coming fall of technology monopolies, oligopolies and empires. In The Master Switch, Wu tells the story of how, in the 19 th Century, the existing telegraph empire tried to smother telephone technology in its cradle. He continues with how the ascendant, then established, telephone monopoly destroyed rising competition for decades, with tacit support of the government. Wu’s latest book, The Curse of Bigness argues that, since the emergence of the digital ec...