Welcome to the tech policy podcast. I'm Ashken Kazarian.

On today's show, we're going to talk about tech lash and the reaction of the American public to it.

Joining us, we have Steve Del Bianco, president of NetChoice.

Steve, thank you for joining the show.

Thank you, Ash. Always a pleasure.

So Steve, you guys, your organization commissioned a poll looking into multiple questions.

Tell us a little bit about the reason you even decided to get this data and what was the idea behind it.

The airwaves are alive with rhetoric from politicians who believe it's time to push back on the tech industry,

which we have all been calling tech backlash or tech clash.

We thought it was probably time to ask ordinary American voters and consumers what they thought about some of the ideas that tech critics have in mind to change the internet that everyone enjoys today.

That makes sense.

So let's start with tech clash.

You said you call it tech lash.

It's, I'm guessing, a negative approach to the technology development, but not even specifically

development itself, but the companies that are going forward with innovation.

What is your understanding of tech clash?

Yeah, tech clash is a phrase used for tech backlash.

And I saw it come to life in the last two years as a as a backlash led by

political actors against the tech industry of Silicon Valley and the coasts and

I saw it as having three elements one of which emerged in the election of 2016

this notion that social media was used by third parties

to meddle in the U.S. elections.

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