February Threads 2024

Threads from ICLE scholars on trending issues for the month of February 2024.

Last June, the FCC chair urged her fellow commissioners to take up an investigation of broadband data caps. That investigation never launched. To find out what may have happened check out the latest Telecom Hootenanny. https://t.co/NoCLqo0eFi A ?…

— Eric Fruits, Ph.D. (@ericfruits) February 5, 2024

1 pm this Wed. at Capitol Hill Club (reception 5 pm): Administrative Agencies & Antitrust in 2024. Hosts @CmteForJustice & @AlliedAntitrust. 1st panel: Congressmen @RepNateMoran & @KevinKileyCA. 2nd & 3rd panels: @PaulSteidler (@LexNextDC), Sean Heather (@USChamber),…

— Committee for Justice (@CmteForJustice) February 5, 2024

1/11 The Bayh-Dole Act has fostered innovation, but proposed changes to expand march-in rights could undermine incentives for commercialization and reduce access to new technologies. pic.twitter.com/gqiUfkapr4

— kristian stout (@kristianstout) February 6, 2024

We @LawEconCenter have been really busy in the last few months (and continue to be!) weighing in on cases with major implications for online speech. Today @TOTMblog, I write about those efforts
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— Ben Sperry (@RBenSperry) February 12, 2024

Death, taxes, and data regulation –
Episode 491 of the Cyberlaw Podcasthttps://t.co/QJjh5DEfsK
With @JaneYakowitz,@GusHurwitz,@n8jones81 but without me

— stewartbaker (@stewartbaker) February 13, 2024

"[Neoliberalism] brought back fairies and all these pre-Enlightenment beliefs in the form of "magical markets" and "market forces." These are not things that exist in the real world."- Barry Lynn

As someone who writes Economic Forces, let me clarify ?https://t.co/UsrbpIXBiv

— Brian Albrecht (@BrianCAlbrecht) February 13, 2024

Great to see a piece on productivity. In the long run, it is all that matters.

I was just giving a talk on this last week, so I have a few thoughts: https://t.co/SIxVI7AEEP

— Brian Albrecht (@BrianCAlbrecht) February 14, 2024

Another week, another amicus brief here @LawEconCenter. Our latest is in the case Bonta v. @NetChoice, in front of the Ninth Circuit, involving a First Amendment challenge to California's Age-Appropriate Design Code (AADC). A ?https://t.co/dxHopDqX7u

— Ben Sperry (@RBenSperry) February 15, 2024

In the least shocking antitrust news in years, the FTC will sue to stop the Kroger/Albertsons merger.

The @LawEconCenter team has been writing about the coming challenge for too long.

Here are a few things you should know: pic.twitter.com/P1X1ibYQdc

— Brian Albrecht (@BrianCAlbrecht) February 21, 2024

The more you dig into the FTC's digital discrimination rules, the more (as the kids would say) "problematic" it becomes. A ? … https://t.co/ELOfNqdPa5 pic.twitter.com/K8TbCHUIqP

— Eric Fruits, Ph.D. (@ericfruits) February 23, 2024

1/ Re: Kroger/Albertsons merger, the FTC's employees-under-collective-bargaining labor market definition is an interesting flex.

But, let's look at the consumer side. A ? … https://t.co/RpqadSaUiH

— Eric Fruits, Ph.D. (@ericfruits) February 27, 2024