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Democrats are repeatedly turning to a strategy that enables them to secure Republican support for competition legislation, but with steep long-term costs for content moderation.
In October, the RNC filed suit against Google, claiming that Gmail was discriminating against the committee through its spam detection provisions; these claims are alarming and legally dubious.
Key structural weaknesses will likely make this industry-led initiative ineffective in promoting true transparency and accountability among social media platforms.
Do the FTC’s longstanding conflict-of-interest rules unnecessarily impede the agency’s ability to attract, retain and deploy technical expertise that it badly needs?
The nation’s current antitrust laws have historical regulatory and enforcement precedents. Recent congressional hearings featuring Big Tech companies have begun to question whether existing laws are adaptable to current corporate behaviors and provide sufficient policing of deceptive or anti-competitive practices. In this episode of TechTank, host Nicol Turner Lee discusses the Biden administration’s potential approach to antitrust and competition policies, particularly those affecting Big Tech, with Brookings Fellows Bill Baer and Tom Wheeler and MIT Professor Nancy Rose.
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis has promised that Florida will soon enact “the most ambitious reforms yet proposed” for “holding ‘Big Tech’ accountable.” There’s just one problem: It’s unconstitutional.