Scott Cleland

Executive Director, Restore Us Institute

Scott Cleland is Executive Director of the Restore Us Institute, an internet policy think tank and nonpartisan, faith-based nonprofit with a mission to restore internet accountability to protect people from online harm. Cleland was Deputy U.S. Coordinator for International Communication and Information Policy in the H.W. Bush Administration. To learn more, visit www.RestoreUsInstitute.org.

In 2011, he authored the first critical book on Google: “Search & Destroy, Why You Can’t Trust Google Inc., which was translated into Korean and Portuguese. Cleland has testified before the Senate and House antitrust subcommittees seven times; and Institutional Investor twice ranked him the #1 independent analyst in communications when he was an investment analyst.

Cleland has been a policy advisor for The Heartland Institute since 2010.

For more please see: www.scottcleland.com.

Scott Cleland Contributions

April 25, 2023
  • Government & Liberty
  • Technology
March 22, 2023
  • Government & Liberty
  • Technology

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