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Olivier Sylvain Wants to Reclaim the Internet from Big Tech
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- Mar 29, 2026
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Summary
This was a landmark week for tech accountability in US courts. Juries in New Mexico and California delivered verdicts finding tech giants Meta and Google liable for harms to young users on their platforms, decisions that are projected to open the door to more lawsuits alleging that social media creates addiction or endangers kids. Today’s guest sees these developments as positive and in line with the types of thinking he believes will help improve the internet. Olivier Sylvain is a professor at Fordham Law School and the author of a new book titled Reclaiming the Internet: How Big Tech Took Control—and How We Can Take It Back , published by Columbia Global Reports. Justin Hendrix interviewed him at Book Culture , a bookstore on 112th Street in New York City.