Europe would like digital sovereignty to be a jurisdictional problem. It would be much easier for EU bureaucrats if the path to frontier AI ran through Brussels, could be secured by certification, and depended mainly on where a given cloud
The government does not need to burn books when it can threaten licenses. Why bother with an inquisitor’s bonfire when a regulator’s raised eyebrow can do the trick?
That is the modern First Amendment problem. Censorship no longer arrives only
Consumer protection often begins with a simple question: Can the consumer walk away? If the answer is no—because switching is hard, data are locked up, markets are fragmented, or new competitors cannot enter—then the problem is not just weak consumer
Meta’s Incognito Chat is interesting not because it promises privacy, but because it makes privacy expensive. It limits what Meta can know, what Meta can monetize, and what Meta can hand over later. That is what makes the announcement worth
If you have been near anyone under the age of 15 in the past year, you may have heard the phrase “six seven” shouted with great conviction and no discernible content. It usually comes with a hand gesture. It means,
The traditional domain of law & economics is the courtroom, the legislature, and the administrative agency. But in their 1994 article, “Raid or Trade? An Economic Model of Indian-White Relations,” Terry Anderson and Fred McChesney took the theoretical
There’s a popular argument that AI will do to human workers what tractors did to horses. Tractors could do what horses did. Horses became obsolete. AI can do what humans do. Therefore…
Plenty of major AI figures seem to agree.
Catherine Sharkey’s “Punitive Damages as Societal Damages” addresses a tension that has been obvious for decades, but usually treated as an annoyance: punitive damages are justified in public-regarding terms—punishment, deterrence, and condemnation—yet delivered through private litigation and typically
A lawsuit over infinite scroll sounds, at first blush, like a fight over product design. Make the app less sticky. Stop nudging teens to keep scrolling. Turn down the algorithmic dopamine machine.
But the harder constitutional question is whether courts
Spirit Airlines built its brand on the promise that flying could be miserable, but cheap. Its reported shutdown and liquidation now poses a less cheerful question for antitrust: What if the competitor regulators fought to preserve was already running out
