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For the sake of user privacy, keep Google search remedies narrow and germane

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For the sake of user privacy, keep Google search remedies narrow and germane

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/29/2025

The movement in the Biden and Trump administrations of antitrust officials away from consumer welfare and towards a federal judiciary of active regulation is on…

Tech and Telecom

A light in the darkness: Federal preemption for AI regulation

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A light in the darkness: Federal preemption for AI regulation

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/13/2025

The joy of federal preemption may soon be upon us. The House Energy and Commerce Committee included a ten-year moratorium on state AI regulation…

Innovation

Otherwise Objectionable episode 6: ‘The Rest of the World’

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Otherwise Objectionable episode 6: ‘The Rest of the World’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/23/2025

The sixth episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, focuses on…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Otherwise Objectionable episode 5: ‘Blowback, and the Dust Settles’

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Otherwise Objectionable episode 5: ‘Blowback, and the Dust Settles’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/15/2025

The fifth episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, recounts how the…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Otherwise Objectionable episode 4: ‘The Solution’

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Otherwise Objectionable episode 4: ‘The Solution’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/08/2025

The fourth episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, picks up…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Otherwise Objectionable episode 3: ‘Law and Disorder’

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Otherwise Objectionable episode 3: ‘Law and Disorder’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/01/2025

The third episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, moves beyond…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Otherwise Objectionable episode 2: ‘The Dawn of the Internet’

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Otherwise Objectionable episode 2: ‘The Dawn of the Internet’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/25/2025

The second episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, focuses on…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Otherwise Objectionable Podcast episode 1: ‘The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet’

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Otherwise Objectionable Podcast episode 1: ‘The Most Misunderstood Law on the Internet’

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/18/2025

Otherwise Objectionable is the brand-new limited series podcast that tells the true story of how a previously-obscure defamation law, Section 230 of the 1996…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

A blueprint for digital censorship in the US?

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A blueprint for digital censorship in the US?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 11/14/2024

Internal documents from the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), as revealed by digital censorship journalist Matt Taibbi, showed that the group’s primary…

Free Speech

Searching for a remedy that makes sense

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Searching for a remedy that makes sense

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 10/15/2024

The Department of Justice recently sent its proposed remedies to the federal judge who found Google guilty of illegally monopolizing web search. Specifically,…

Antitrust

Missing the economists in FTC’s latest PBM study

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Missing the economists in FTC’s latest PBM study

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 07/10/2024

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) released its not-so-objectively titled interim report on Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs): Pharmacy Benefit Managers: The Powerful Middlemen Inflating Drug…

Eye on FTC

Everyone agrees we need more spectrum, so why is Congress making it complicated?

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Everyone agrees we need more spectrum, so why is Congress making it complicated?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/17/2024

Politics prioritized over policy is de rigueur these days, but it shouldn’t be for spectrum auction reauthorization. The importance to the US economy and to…

Tech and Telecom

How a carefully planned strategy can persuade a skeptical judiciary

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How a carefully planned strategy can persuade a skeptical judiciary

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/07/2024

Former FTC Bureau of Consumer Protection Director Howard Beales and former FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris co-authored a new CEI paper contrasting the radical…

Eye on FTC

US move to ban TikTok a troubling signal for our great experiment in self-determination

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US move to ban TikTok a troubling signal for our great experiment in self-determination

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/24/2024

As a part of a foreign aid funding package, the Senate passed a bill mandating TikTok’s divestiture from Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance. Biden…

Tech and Telecom

Off-the-rails FTC wrong answer for keeping kids safe online

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Off-the-rails FTC wrong answer for keeping kids safe online

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/16/2024

This week the Washington Post reported that the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) is poised to pass the Senate, but faces hurdles in…

Eye on FTC

Silver lining? New federal merger guidelines: 11 bad ideas instead of 13!

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Silver lining? New federal merger guidelines: 11 bad ideas instead of 13!

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 12/18/2023

Today the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) jointly issued their final version of the 2023 Merger Guidelines.

Eye on FTC

Justice Department ignores consumers, boosts Bing in Google antitrust trial

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Justice Department ignores consumers, boosts Bing in Google antitrust trial

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 11/06/2023

The Department of Justice’s (DOJ) case accusing Google of having and unlawfully maintaining a monopoly in search is in full swing in US District…

Antitrust

Lina Khan’s whole new level of economic bloodletting

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Lina Khan’s whole new level of economic bloodletting

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/06/2023

The Biden administration in its Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy and, more pointedly, the Federal Trade Commission in many of…

Antitrust

When the Policy is This Bad, Politics Might Be the Only Explanation

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When the Policy is This Bad, Politics Might Be the Only Explanation

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/17/2023

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis recently proposed a tech agenda as his “Digital Bill of Rights” for the state’ blessedly short 60-day legislative session. While there…

Tech and Telecom

Trust, but Verify via Congressional Oversight

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Trust, but Verify via Congressional Oversight

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/08/2023

Is the Federal Trade Commission’s request that Twitter hand over the names of “all journalists and other members of the media to whom” the social…

Eye on FTC

<strong>Some Things are Just Business, Not Politics – and That’s a Good Thing</strong>

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Some Things are Just Business, Not Politics – and That’s a Good Thing

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/08/2023

The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) was the predictable venue for Newsmax CEO Chris Ruddy to portrait DirecTV’s recent decision to stop carrying the channel…

Innovation

Trust, but Verify via Congressional Oversight

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Trust, but Verify via Congressional Oversight

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/08/2023

Is the Federal Trade Commission’s request that Twitter hand over the names of “all journalists and other members of the media to whom” the social…

Antitrust

<strong>Collusion Is Harmful and Illegal—Except When a Federal Agency Does It?</strong>

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Collusion Is Harmful and Illegal—Except When a Federal Agency Does It?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/24/2023

The Wall Street Journal reports today, thanks to FOIA requests by the Chamber of Commerce, that it appears the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) conspired…

Antitrust

State of the Union: Heavy-Handed Tech Regulation Fails to Appeal to Many Democratic Voters

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State of the Union: Heavy-Handed Tech Regulation Fails to Appeal to Many Democratic Voters

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/06/2023

President Biden should take advantage of breaking spy balloon news to talk about that—or anything else—instead of re-upping calls for regulation aimed at big tech…

Tech and Telecom

FTC Should Not Trade Consumer Welfare for an Antitrust Crystal Ball

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FTC Should Not Trade Consumer Welfare for an Antitrust Crystal Ball

  • By: Jessica Melugin, Ryan Young
  • 02/01/2023

A Federal District Court in California today denied the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request for a preliminary injunction to stop Meta’s purchase of virtual…

The Federal Trade Commission Is in Dire Need of an Intervention

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The Federal Trade Commission Is in Dire Need of an Intervention

  • By: Alex Reinauer, Jessica Melugin
  • 12/13/2022

In recent years, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has become increasingly aggressive in its antitrust actions and policies. This expansion will be harmful to American…

Antitrust

Gonzales v. Google: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Algorithms

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Gonzales v. Google: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Algorithms

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 10/03/2022

Today the Supreme Court agreed to hear Gonzales v. Google, LLC, a case that evaluates how broadly the liability protection is for platforms in…

Tech and Telecom

Current Antitrust Proposals No “Laffing” Matter

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Current Antitrust Proposals No “Laffing” Matter

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/24/2022

A new report by Laffer Associates released today, Read ‘Em and Weep: How the American Innovation and Choice Online Act (S. 2992) and Other…

Tech and Telecom

Elon vs. the Regulators

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Elon vs. the Regulators

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/25/2022

A $43 billion sale of Twitter to Elon Musk looks more and more like a done deal. Depending on who you ask, Musk will…

Tech and Telecom

“Letter” Rip: The Justice Department Would Like More Power, Please

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“Letter” Rip: The Justice Department Would Like More Power, Please

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/30/2022

In its first backing of specific antirust legislation, the Justice Department (DOJ) sent a letter in support of the American Innovation and Choice…

Tech and Telecom

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