5 questions for the Heritage Foundation’s Kara Frederick

Politico September 6, 2024
By Derek Robertson

SAN FRANCISCO — Hello, and welcome to this week’s edition of the Future in Five Questions from the sunny Bay Area. After our panel appearance at yesterday’s Reboot conference, I spoke with Kara Frederick, the Heritage Foundation’s director of tech policy, about her sweeping vision for re-imagining how conservatives relate to tech. We talked about the connection between Starlink access and the conservative notion of homesteading, how antitrust law might be expanded to rein in Big Tech and how Robert Heinlein’s “Starship Troopers” gave her intellectual and political permission to be a techie. An edited and condensed version of the conversation follows:

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