Few antitrust investigations find their theory of harm laid out in the target’s sales brochure. Brazil’s investigation of Aprix, a startup that sells pricing software to gas stations, nearly managed the feat. One of the company’s promotional brochures introduced prospective
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Fiber Freeze: How Maple Grove Made a Cable Franchise the Price of Broadband
The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) Build America Agenda rests on a simple premise: Stop making it so hard to build. Federal and state policymakers have spent years reducing permitting delays, resolving pole-attachment disputes, and easing access to public rights-of-way—the public…
Cartels With Benefits: The Trouble With Extending Labor’s Antitrust Exemption
By Alden Abbott
Antitrust law’s usual instruction to competitors who agree on price is admirably brief: Don’t. Labor law makes a deliberate exception for employees who bargain collectively. Advocates now want that exception to cover at least some independent contractors, including rideshare drivers,…
Google, the Unruh Act, and the Legal Risk of Knowing Your Audience
By Ben Sperry
Advertising’s oldest rule is simple: Know your audience. In California, following it may get an online platform sued. Show retirement-home ads to seniors and student discounts to college students, and sensible targeting can suddenly look like unlawful discrimination.
That question…
The Data Center Chessboard Has No Pause Button
The whole country ostensibly wants America to win the artificial intelligence (AI) race. A striking number, however, would prefer someone else’s town to host the data centers, power plants, transmission lines, and cooling systems required to run it.
Adam Smith…
Copy, Paste, Compensate: Nigeria’s Misguided Bid to Make Big Tech Pay for News
By Onyeka Aralu
Nigeria has looked south and seen a $40 million payday for the press. The trouble is that it misread both the price tag and the fine print—and its attempt to collect may leave Nigerian publishers with fewer readers and no…
Open Weights, Closed Ranks: The AI Manifesto War
By Mario Zúñiga
The AI industry has entered its manifesto era. Executives, researchers, and employees are issuing rival plans to keep advanced models safe. The fine print contains a less advertised question: Would those plans protect the public—or protect today’s leaders from the…
Much Ado About No News: Australia’s Latest Plan to Make Platforms Pay
Australia’s latest plan to make digital platforms pay for journalism has an unusual feature. A platform can owe money even if it carries no journalism at all. The government calls this an “incentive.”
On Aug. 3, the Australian government finalized…
The FCC Is Right To Keep Every Band on the Table for Direct-to-Device
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At its August 6 open meeting, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is scheduled to vote on…
From Google Fines to French Wine: The Trade Case Against the DMA
By Dirk Auer
Brussels has spent two years testing how much regulatory pain Washington will tolerate before reaching for the tariff book. President Donald Trump may have supplied the answer. His threatened Section 301 investigation—a process that allows the United States to retaliate…