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January 13, 2026
Kids’ Online Safety Requires Precision, Not Centralization
Parents have valid concerns about how online environments shape their children’s behavior. However, as the House Energy and Commerce Committee advances a comprehensive package of children’s online safety bills, the crucial question isn’t whether lawmakers should act, but how responsibility should be shared. How Congress assigns that responsibility will determine whether these reforms truly protect…
January 13, 2026
Restricting Minors’ Access to Social Media: Divided Ruling Over Florida Law Reveals First Amendment Rifts
An appellate court ruled in late November that a Florida law severely limiting minors’ ability to hold social media accounts and imposing age-verification and parental-confirmation requirements on platforms “likely” passes First Amendment muster and can take effect. The two-to-one decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Computer & Communications Industry…
January 12, 2026
Protecting Youth Online: 2025 Update
In 2025, the landscape of digital safety for youth shifted from monitoring to integrated protection. Major platforms have moved beyond simple screen-time counters to introduce granular content filtering, mandatory age-appropriate defaults, and tools that bridge the gap between operating systems and individual apps. The following report detail the specific toolsets announced by Apple, Google, Meta,…
January 12, 2026
A Monument to Private Enterprise: The Lessons Zohran Mamdani Missed at His Swearing-In
There were ghosts in the old City Hall subway station when New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani took the oath of office January 1. They were not the sentimental kind—not sepia-toned reminders of civic ambition—but the stubborn kind that insist on telling the truth about who really builds great things. They were whispering that New…
January 9, 2026
2026 Tech Policy Predictions
With the second Trump administration settling into its second year, 2026 promises to bring continued evolution in technology policy. Our scholars are examining the developments likely to shape the year ahead across antitrust, AI infrastructure, broadband deployment, and emerging challenges in digital platforms. The Trump administration will continue reorienting antitrust enforcement away from its use…
January 8, 2026
Leaving the IPCC and UNFCCC is Bad for the United States
Yesterday, the Trump administration announced via executive order that the United States was withdrawing from 66 international organizations, of which 31 fall under the United Nations (UN). [1] Among these organizations are the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). [2] Today, I explain a bit about these organizations and…
January 8, 2026
First Amendment Lessons from the Shutdown About Government-Compelled Political Expression
Automatic-reply, out-of-office (OOO) emails are generally informative, innocuous and noncontroversial. They’re frequently formulaic—templates abound—and Microsoft offers instructions for their creation. However, the OOO emails at the heart of a First Amendment-based complaint filed by the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) against the US Department of Education and Linda McMahon during last fall’s 43-day government…
January 7, 2026
The Data Displaying AI’s Impact on the Telecom World
Artificial intelligence is currently the shiny toy in tech, and when discussing it, most focus on the “AI stack,” data centers, or chips as the most vital aspect of furthering this innovative tool. Yet there is an invisible network that helps power this emerging technology and is just as vital to sustaining it; digital networks…
January 6, 2026
Cell Phones Are Not Like Other Possessions
Keep an eye on a recent case filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF). It may broaden recognition of something the Supreme Court has found: Cell phones are no ordinary possession. When you are carrying a cell phone around, you are carrying private and personal information comparable to what is contained in your house. When…
December 23, 2025
Public School Students’ Online, Off-Campus Speech Rights: Lessons from a First Amendment Victory, Part 2
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in October delivered a significant triumph for the online speech rights of public high school students over educators’ authority to discipline them for uploading—while off campus, on their own time—offensive messages not targeting a school, its employees, or students. Leroy v. Livingston Manor Central School District…