June Threads 2024

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

As if Loper Bright weren't enough, today also brings another interesting discussion on the proper role of the administrative state in the form of Commissioner @MHolyoakFTC's full statement dissenting from the FTC majority's Non-Compete Clause Rule. pic.twitter.com/BUY8syWzbz

— Geoffrey Manne (@geoffmanne) June 28, 2024

Statement from @LawEconCenter's @geoffmanne on the Supreme Court's Loper Bright opinion:https://t.co/kzYNKx1m5m

— Int'l Ctr Law & Econ (@LawEconCenter) June 28, 2024

1/11 We sometimes hear that consumers always want more privacy. But, in a world of trade-offs, how much would users be willing to pay for it? Google's Timeline changes suggest that not very much. Some would even be willing to pay to avoid privacy-enhancing product changes. ?

— Lazar Radic (@laz_radic) June 28, 2024

I'll have a lot more on Murthy v. Missouri soon (a long blog post coming soon) but the basic points I want to get across are these:

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— Ben Sperry (@RBenSperry) June 26, 2024

Today, the @EU_Commission has issued a statement of objections against Microsoft over concerns that the company tied Teams to its productivity applications included with Office 365 & Microsoft 365. Some preliminary thoughts. ?https://t.co/dapODN4p5i

— Lazar Radic (@laz_radic) June 25, 2024

1/13 Treasury's proposed rules on outbound investment to China raise significant concerns for AI development (among other industries).

— kristian stout (@kristianstout) June 24, 2024

There are growing concerns about veto points in building and development in the US.

Not every skyline protection or newt conservation group should be able to veto things. That doesn't encourage dynamism.

Are we going down a similar path in antitrust? ?

— Brian Albrecht (@BrianCAlbrecht) June 14, 2024

1/ My latest op-ed about in @ET_Edge about why India should question, rather than reflexively import, Europe's digital competition regulation strategy. Tl;dr in ? https://t.co/1Fr0kC5wOE

— Lazar Radic (@laz_radic) June 14, 2024

.@GusHurwitz (@pennlaw, @PCL_CTIC, @LawEconCenter) replies to @jonathanmasur and Eric Posner’s article defending the @FTC's Congressional mandate to enforce a rule banning #noncompetes:

"Legality of the Ban Is Less Certain Than Masur and Posner Suggest"https://t.co/yFXqUUeMIw

— ProMarket (@ProMarket_org) June 13, 2024

Tomorrow in Paris, talking about the privacy/antitrust curse: from the privacy offence to the privacy defense, ie an opportunity for regulatory gaming to undermine the antitrust enforcement https://t.co/T1CFKE3NuB

— Giuseppe Colangelo (@GiuColangelo) June 12, 2024

Almost every household in the U.S. now has access to broadband internet. https://t.co/itWZSfyFw1 pic.twitter.com/nssELt9yxM

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

It is an integral part of due process and sound regulation to allow companies the opportunity to show their actions are not harmful – unless you want to completely untether enforcement from outcomes and ban/mandate conduct purely on principle. 1/3 https://t.co/M2Lg7Hw7Yc pic.twitter.com/OKXATQnuPE

— Lazar Radic (@laz_radic) June 5, 2024

Odd Lots + price discrimination = I had to listen right away.

As the episode makes clear, a lot of this is experimental. We are in a new era of pricing. Absolutely.

Let me give some reasons for a little less doom and gloom out of that experimentation. https://t.co/E8CrolXoDI

— Brian Albrecht (@BrianCAlbrecht) June 3, 2024