Despite the Federal Communication Commission’s decision in December 2017 to eliminate the common carrier regulations for Internet services — the so-called net neutrality rules the FCC created in 2015 — the net neutrality debate rages on. Gus Hurwitz, Brent Skorup, and Geoffrey Manne discuss this new front in regulation, federalism, and grassroots activism.
A U.S. Supreme Court case over the legitimacy of a credit card issuer’s terms of business with its merchant establishments is reverberating far and wide. . . .
Geoffrey A. Manne •
August 29, 2017
David Chavern (News Media Alliance, whose members include NYT, WSJ, Tronc (Chicago Tribune, LA Times)), in a July 9, 2017 Wall Street Journal op-ed and . . .
Kristian Stout •
July 25, 2017
ICLE Associate Director for Innovation recently debated Sasha Moss of the R Street Institution on the nature of copyright law, its constitutional foundations, and the . . .
Geoffrey Manne joins Chris Segers and Anthony Bianco on CNBC for a discussion of Amazon's size and how it is expected to grow. WATCH: Video
Summary As the internet economy matures, antitrust regulators around the world have increasingly turned their sights on internet companies. However, the dynamic nature of online . . .
Geoffrey A. Manne •
November 29, 2016
The difference between privacy protection and antitrust law
-Privacy is fundamentally a consumer protection or tort issue.
- In theory, antitrust law can deal with privacy as a non-price factor of hard to measure against/combine
competition, but this is an uneasy fit — with other effects...