Author: Norm Singleton

By Norm Singleton Norm Singleton is a senior fellow at the Market Institute. This article originally appeared at Real Clear Markets. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently held a summit on “The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families.” The summit’s purpose was to “examine how big tech companies impose addictive design features, erode parental authority, and fail to protect children from exposure to harmful content,” and “explore how the FTC, Congress, state governments, and other organizations can help support parents and protect children online.” This sounds like a worthy endeavor. After all, what reasonable person…