Predicting Digital Competition Law Under a New DOJ & FTC
Plus vaping, content moderation, and more…
Tech in the Courts: The fifth installment of our webinar series featured Bilal's panel, which examined how new leadership at the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will influence key tech-related antitrust cases.
Harm Reduction: On a new Tech Policy Podcast, Jonathan Adler (Case Western Law) and Ari Cohn (FIRE) discussed the FDA’s war on vaping and the Supreme Court case FDA v. Wages and White Lion Investments.
Antitrust: On the latest Rethinking Antitrust, Diana Moss of the Progressive Policy Institute (PPI) spoke with Bilal about several papers she has authored on an antitrust agenda that focuses on enforcement issues impacting consumers’ pocketbooks.
Good Governance: We joined a letter urging the Senate Finance Committee to expeditiously process a bipartisan slate of qualified nominees to fill critical vacancies in the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC).
FCC: In Cablefax, Berin previewed potential FCC actions for the coming year, warning of fines, license losses, and merger delays. He also cautioned against expected efforts to reinterpret Section 230 to require political ‘neutrality’ and to bar all ‘editorializing.’
Online Platforms: Corbin spoke on two panels—one on tech and market power; one on tech in the Trump II administration—at a Practising Law Institute (PLI) conference on legal and regulatory responses to technology.
Content Moderation: In Mashable, Berin was quoted about the ongoing battle between free speech and content moderation: “Censorship is just content moderation that someone doesn't like.”
Book Reviews: On his Substack, Corbin takes us through all nine of his book reviews for the year—covering things like flawed AI predictions, the “censorship industrial complex” industrial complex, why the Internet isn’t killing culture, and much more.
What does the future hold?