Putting the Pieces Together: Clarifying EU Merger Guidelines
Plus Section 230, FTC, and more...
EU Antitrust: Bilal filed comments on the European Commission’s review of its Merger Guidelines, suggesting clarifying principles should be added to minimize enforcement errors.
Google Antitrust Case: Bilal moderated a Federalist Society panel debating the Google search antitrust ruling, including the denial of the government’s request for structural relief, and the broader implications for Google, monopolization law, and the government’s antitrust agenda.
Podcast: On the latest episode of Rethinking Antitrust, Bilal sat down with Gwendolyn Lindsay Cooley, founder of Taimet and former Wisconsin Assistant AG, on the future of antitrust enforcement and policy.
Section 230: In WORLD, Corbin is quoted (albeit a little awkwardly) on how the least-bad outcome, in the Section 230 debate, may be for legislators to leave Section 230 in place, but for social-media platforms to remain under informal pressure to carefully moderate content.
FTC: Techdirt quoted Berin’s thread explaining why the FTC’s investigation into Google’s political email filtering is legally flawed. In May, our amicus brief urged the Ninth Circuit to protect email spam filtering from frivolous lawsuits.
CyberScoop quoted Berin’s essay in TechPolicyPress predicting the fired FTC Commissioners may win early lawsuits but likely lose at the Supreme Court, which may no longer apply Humphrey’s Executor to today’s more powerful FTC.
