September Threads 2025
Threads from ICLE scholars on trending issues for the month of September 2025.
1/ The White House’s proposal to impose a 100% tariff on foreign-made films raises serious economic concerns. This is not just about movies—it functions as a digital services tax (DST).
— kristian stout (@kristianstout) September 29, 2025
1/ The White House’s proposal to impose a 100% tariff on foreign-made films raises serious economic concerns. This is not just about movies—it functions as a digital services tax (DST).
— kristian stout (@kristianstout) September 29, 2025
Looking forward to speaking at VU Amsterdam on Oct. 10, for its Law & Technology & Economics lecture series. Please come if you're in the area! Organized by @ProfSchrepel & @alti_VU pic.twitter.com/aDAzJL3A9P
— Geoffrey Manne (@geoffmanne) September 25, 2025
Happy to share that the updated version of my @LawEconCenter paper on “The EU essential facilities doctrine after Android Auto: a wild card without limiting principles?” has been just published in @CMLRev https://t.co/9UJZFIb1jJ pic.twitter.com/aYeSExMnDC
— Giuseppe Colangelo (@GiuColangelo) September 23, 2025
Lots of thoughts on the situation with Jimmy Kimmel and the FCC over @TOTMblog. tl;dr: maybe we need to rethink whether broadcasters should be treated differently under the First Amendment
— Ben Sperry (@RBenSperry) September 19, 2025
Right after the Google Search case was filed in 2020, I wrote a snarky post about how these payments were a subsidy.
The logic was simple. Google's payment to Apple gets partially passed through to consumers.
This argument is somewhat vindicated now that we have the remedies. pic.twitter.com/dYzmuaZNtv
— Brian Albrecht (@BrianCAlbrecht) September 4, 2025
The Google Search remedies decision just dropped. The court rejected breakups, payment bans, and choice screens.
But it still ordered data sharing and syndication duties.
This reasoning will shape antitrust for years. My thoughts ? https://t.co/ScFNzZ7GxA
— Brian Albrecht (@BrianCAlbrecht) September 3, 2025
NEW. Over the summer, I read all of the EU’s latest digital acts (640 pages…) so you don’t have to.
I ran an empirical study to measure how adaptive these regulations are. Here are the results: https://t.co/QBpb6mqiC0.
(And yes, I’m experimenting with very short abstracts!) pic.twitter.com/HStga30mH5— Thibault Schrepel (@ProfSchrepel) September 3, 2025