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Biden Tech Policy Preview

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Biden Tech Policy Preview

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 11/09/2020

Joe Biden has been declared the president-elect (I’m pretty sure). Here’s what a Biden administration and a (presumably) divided Congress might mean for tech issues.

Tech and Telecom

SAFE DATA Act a Risk for Consumers

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SAFE DATA Act a Risk for Consumers

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 09/22/2020

Republican members of the Senate Commerce Committee recently introduced the SAFE DATA Act. While the bill includes much needed federal preemption of state privacy laws,…

Tech and Telecom

Don’t Panic Over Ad Tech

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Don’t Panic Over Ad Tech

  • By: Jessica Melugin, Mario Loyola
  • 09/14/2020

The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold an antitrust hearing on September 15 to examine Google’s 90 percent market share in online advertising. Senators who would…

Tech and Telecom

No Market Failure, No New Regulations

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No Market Failure, No New Regulations

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 09/09/2020

The U.S. Senate is about to consider federally regulating transportation network companies (TNCs) for the first time. But proof of market failure should always be…

Tech and Telecom

INFORM Me When It’s Over

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INFORM Me When It’s Over

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 09/03/2020

Among other depressing developments, 2020 saw the introduction of the Integrity, Notification, and Fairness in Online Retail Marketplaces for Consumers Act (INFORM) in both houses…

Tech and Telecom

Tech Antitrust Hearing as Political Theater

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Tech Antitrust Hearing as Political Theater

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 07/29/2020

Large, innovative tech companies have been invaluable during the COVID-19 crisis, helping to ease the burden of millions of Americans and businesses under quarantine. But…

Antitrust

Antitrust Tech Hearing Unlikely to Prove Useful

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Antitrust Tech Hearing Unlikely to Prove Useful

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 07/23/2020

Monday’s upcoming House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing featuring CEOs from Facebook, Amazon, Google, and Apple may turn out to have very little to do with antitrust.

Antitrust

Is Apple a Bad Antitrust Apple?

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Is Apple a Bad Antitrust Apple?

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/22/2020

The European Union announced last week that it is pursuing two antitrust probes against the tech giant. EU authorities are investigating whether Apple violated European…

Antitrust

Calls to “Reform” Section 230 of Communications Decency Act Are Misguided—and Thankfully Unlikely to Succeed

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Calls to “Reform” Section 230 of Communications Decency Act Are Misguided—and Thankfully Unlikely to Succeed

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/11/2020

This week, four U.S. Senators asked the FCC to “take a fresh look at Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act .” Real changes…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Executive Order on Social Media Threatens Property Rights and Free Speech

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Executive Order on Social Media Threatens Property Rights and Free Speech

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/28/2020

Today’s Executive Order on Section 230 liability protections for online platforms violates the First Amendment and property rights of social media companies, contradicts the most…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Presidential Panel on Social Media Bias Misfires

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Presidential Panel on Social Media Bias Misfires

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/26/2020

Last week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration is considering forming a panel to investigate charges of discrimination against right-leaning users and…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Antitrust Investigation of Amazon Won’t Benefit Consumers

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Antitrust Investigation of Amazon Won’t Benefit Consumers

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/29/2020

Launching another antitrust investigation into Amazon won’t benefit consumers. The U.S. antitrust law standard is consumer harm. To stretch antitrust investigations to include data, privacy,…

Antitrust

Market Dynamics Will Force Zoom to Reform Faster and More effectively than Government Regulation

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Market Dynamics Will Force Zoom to Reform Faster and More effectively than Government Regulation

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/21/2020

The videoconferencing service Zoom recently ran into some privacy concerns with leaked videos and hacked online meetings. Reaction has been swift and flawed from many…

Antitrust

On Balance, We’re All Better Off With Big Tech and Big Telecom During a Crisis

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On Balance, We’re All Better Off With Big Tech and Big Telecom During a Crisis

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/15/2020

Thanks to the novel Coronavirus, the U.S. economy has come to an unprecedented halt and the country’s death toll stands at more than 20,000. Amid…

Tech and Telecom

Antitrust Policy #NeverNeeded and Dangerous in a Crisis

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Antitrust Policy #NeverNeeded and Dangerous in a Crisis

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 04/01/2020

The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission will now allow some collaboration between companies to address the corona virus health threat. They also warned a…

Antitrust

Regulatory Restraint, Full Throttle

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Regulatory Restraint, Full Throttle

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/31/2020

Members of Congress pursuing compromise or bipartisan net neutrality legislation should think twice about regulating away certain practices as a priori harmful. Among the greatest…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Need for More Wireless Spectrum Will Persist beyond COVID-19 Crisis with Introduction of 5G Technology

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Need for More Wireless Spectrum Will Persist beyond COVID-19 Crisis with Introduction of 5G Technology

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 03/23/2020

Last week, T-Mobile, Verizon, AT&T and US Cellular all asked the FCC for temporary access to additional spectrum to accommodate the recent increased demand for…

Tech and Telecom

Federal Court Rightly Affirms Online Platforms’ First Amendment Rights

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Federal Court Rightly Affirms Online Platforms’ First Amendment Rights

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/28/2020

This week the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that, “despite YouTube’s ubiquity and its role as a publicfacing platform, it remains a private forum,…

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Amazon Documentary Shows How Consumers Benefit

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Amazon Documentary Shows How Consumers Benefit

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 02/19/2020

PBS’s Frontline aired its documentary, “Amazon Empire: The Rise and Reign of Jeff Bezos,” last night. While the tone of the piece was markedly suspicious,…

Antitrust

Proposed iHeart Media Acquisition Threatened by Antitrust Regulation

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Proposed iHeart Media Acquisition Threatened by Antitrust Regulation

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 01/03/2020

The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Liberty Media Corp, which already owns Sirius XM satellite radio, including its Pandora streaming service, and 33% of…

Antitrust

California’s New Privacy Law Will Harm Consumers and Innovation

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California’s New Privacy Law Will Harm Consumers and Innovation

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 12/30/2019

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect January 1, 2020. The law requires companies of a certain size that collect information on customers…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Department of Justice Wrong to Block Sabre Acquisition of Farelogix

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Department of Justice Wrong to Block Sabre Acquisition of Farelogix

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 12/18/2019

On January 27th, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) will attempt to block travel technology company Sabre Corporation from purchasing communications protocol innovator Farelogix, Inc. This will be the…

Antitrust

Government of Singapore Demonstrates Real Online Censorship

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Government of Singapore Demonstrates Real Online Censorship

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 12/02/2019

Singapore’s recent policing of online content provides an instructive example of the difference between private curating of material by platform owners and dangerous curtailing of…

Free Speech

Twitter’s Ban on Political Ads Has No First Amendment Implications

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Twitter’s Ban on Political Ads Has No First Amendment Implications

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 10/31/2019

Twitter Chief Executive Jack Dorsey announced that the social media platform will ban all political advertising. This comes on the heels of Facebook’s recent announcement…

Free Speech

States Making Predictable Grab for Revenue via Online Sales Taxes

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States Making Predictable Grab for Revenue via Online Sales Taxes

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 08/14/2019

Fallout from the 2018 South Dakota v.​​​​​​​ Wayfair Supreme Court decision, which allowed remote sales tax collection from online purchases, has begun and The Wall Street Journal editorialized…

Law and Litigation

Department of Justice Creates Frankenstein Imitation of Market Competition

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Department of Justice Creates Frankenstein Imitation of Market Competition

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 07/30/2019

The Department of Justice’s long-awaited merger approval for T-Mobile and Sprint is good news for consumers on balance, but the conditions required for the agency’s blessing are…

Tech and Telecom

State Officials, Department of Justice Should Green-Light Sprint-T-Mobile Merger

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State Officials, Department of Justice Should Green-Light Sprint-T-Mobile Merger

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 06/12/2019

Yesterday’s filing by ten state attorneys general to block the proposed merger of wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint is the latest threat to the innovations…

Antitrust

Liberate Local TV Programming from Price Controls

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Liberate Local TV Programming from Price Controls

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/28/2019

The Senate Commerce Committee plans to hold a hearing on the state of the media marketplace on June 5 and the debate around reauthorizing The…

Tech and Telecom

Federal Communications Commission Wisely Steps out of Way of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger

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Federal Communications Commission Wisely Steps out of Way of Sprint/T-Mobile Merger

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/20/2019

Today the Federal Communications Commission signaled it will likely vote to approve the merger of Sprint and T-Mobile.

Antitrust

Don’t Let Facebook Team up with Big Government to Censor the Web

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Don’t Let Facebook Team up with Big Government to Censor the Web

  • By: Jessica Melugin
  • 05/07/2019

Facebook’s expulsion of several controversial figures from its platform last week is an example of a company managing its own private property to what it…

Free Speech

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