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Late last year, Tim Wu of Columbia Law School (and now the White House Office of Management and Budget), Michael Luca of Harvard Business School (and a consultant for Yelp), and a group of Yelp data scientists released a study claiming that Google has been purposefully degrading search results...
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As part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), signed by President Joe Biden in November 2021, Congress provided $42.5 billion for broadband deployment, mapping, and adoption projects through the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, with the stated goal of...
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This article assesses the FCC’s current policies and rules regarding transaction reviews, concluding that the Commission’s current spectrum transfer review process harms consumer welfare. In particular, the FCC’s spectrum screen as currently structured, its standard of review for spectrum...
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Increasingly, people use the internet to connect with one another, access information, and purchase products and services. Along with the growth in the online marketplace have come concerns, as well, particularly regarding both the privacy of personal information as well as competition issues...
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Net neutrality is now the law of the land. The FCC argued in the 2015 Open Internet Order that the rules were necessary to preserve the free and open Internet. But do the FCC’s justifications for its rules comport with economic and marketplace realities? This paper proposes to examine the...
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The salient objection to Section 230 reform that would saddle online platforms with any form of indirect liability for user-generated content is not one of principle, but of practicality: are there effective reforms that would meaningfully reduce the incidence of unlawful or tortious online...
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