Ashley Johnson

The US emerged as a global leader in digital policy in the 1990s thanks to its pro-innovation approach, supplemented by multi-stakeholder and international cooperation on key issues.

The Biden Administration’s newly launched Declaration for the Future of the Internet is too ambitious. There is no need to focus on what are mostly domestic Internet policy issues, where nations are likely to have differing approaches. This includes data privacy—an issue that is best dealt with the national government level, lest the stronger regulator (the European Union) succeed in imposing its innovation-limiting privacy regime on the rest of the free world.