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March 26, 2021

The FTC Did Not ‘Fumble the Future’ in Its Google Search Investigation

In the final analysis, what the revelations do not show is that the FTC’s market for ideas failed consumers a decade ago when it declined to bring an antitrust suit against Google.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

March 24, 2021

Re: The Federal Communications Commission’s Bipartisan 5.9 GHz Order

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Dear Secretary Buttigieg, Secretary Raimondo, and Director Deese: The International Center for Law & Economics, New America’s Open Technology Institute, Public Knowledge and the R Street Institute represent organizations that…

Telecommunications

March 24, 2021

Committee Prepares to Grill Tech CEOS, but It Is the First Amendment That Could Get Torched

Ben Sperry

In what has become regularly scheduled programming on Capitol Hill, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be subject to yet another round…

Innovation & The New Economy

March 23, 2021

The Problem of Data Property Rights

Dirk Auer

Policy discussions about the use of personal data often have “less is more” as a background assumption; that data is overconsumed relative to some hypothetical optimal baseline. This overriding skepticism…

Data Security & Privacy

March 4, 2021

Platform Self-Preferencing Can Be Good for Consumers and Even Competitors

Geoffrey A. Manne & Samuel Bowman

Critics of big tech companies like Google and Amazon are increasingly focused on the supposed evils of “self-preferencing.” This refers to when digital platforms like Amazon Marketplace or Google Search,…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 18, 2021

tl;dr - The Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act

Samuel Bowman & Geoffrey A. Manne & Dirk Auer

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) has introduced the Competition and Antitrust Law Enforcement Reform Act (CALERA), sweeping legislation that, if enacted, would change the antitrust rules not just for Big Tech, but for the whole economy.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 18, 2021

tl;dr - Lawmaking and Legislative Procedure in the European Union

Anastasiia Rusanova

The process of writing and passing laws in the European Union primarily involves three institutions: the European Commission, the European Parliament, and the Council of the EU. The Commission proposes legislation, and the Parliament and the Council approve, amend, or reject it.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 9, 2021

tl;dr - Consumer Welfare Standard

Samuel Bowman

Returning to a pre-Consumer Welfare Standard state of the law would lead antitrust enforcement to become confused, contradictory, and ineffective at promoting competition. The CWS makes antitrust economically coherent and democratically accountable.

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

February 3, 2021

Chairman Pai Symposium: Wrap-Up and Thoughts for the Future FCC

Kristian Stout

The next chair has an awfully big pair of shoes (or one oversized coffee mug) to fill. Chairman Pai established an important legacy of transparency and process improvement, as well as commitment to careful, economic analysis in the business of the agency.

Telecommunications