Identifying whether hyperbolic advertising claims influence consumers is important for consumer protection, but differentiating mere "puffery" from misleading advertising is not straightforward. We conducted a pre-registered experiment to determine whether pseudo-technical advertising claims...

The text addresses some of the definitions and origins of the term "Internet Balkanization." Drawing upon U.S. constitutional law and interstate commerce regulations, it argues that the term also carries strong connotations on the realms of jurisdiction and commerce. The text adds examples of...

U.S. deregulatory policies have been eroding consumer protection remedies for telecommunications and broadband access services. However, most policymakers and telecommunications policy researchers are familiar with the erosion that has resulted from industry-specific actions by federal or state...