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Does Our Spectrum System Need to Be Revamped? 
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AEIdeas

Does Our Spectrum System Need to Be Revamped? 

Shane is joined by Thomas Hazlett to discuss how we can use spectrum more efficiently if we update the regulatory boundaries around their uses and the regulations that bind them.

Why the Feel-Good K.G.M. Social Media Verdict is Troubling
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AEIdeas

Why the Feel-Good K.G.M. Social Media Verdict is Troubling

As media hoopla over the $6 million March verdict in the K.G.M. social media addiction trial fades, it’s important to reflect on numerous problems with both the outcome and the…

Responding to the Erosion of Independent Regulation
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AEIdeas

Responding to the Erosion of Independent Regulation

If effective independence declines, policymakers should focus less on labels and more on building credibility and predictability. They are what ultimately encourage investment, innovation, and growth.

The EU’s Marking of Its Own Digital Markets Act Homework Found Wanting
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AEIdeas

The EU’s Marking of Its Own Digital Markets Act Homework Found Wanting

The EU’s finding of the “success” of its DMA lacks credibility, as it falls far short of the kind of comprehensive cost-benefit analysis normally considered necessary to assess the efficacy…

Online Speech and Jawboning Hypocrisy: Does an Inglorious First Amendment Legacy Await Bondi and Noem?
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AEIdeas

Online Speech and Jawboning Hypocrisy: Does an Inglorious First Amendment Legacy Await Bondi and Noem?

If a recent ruling by a federal judge holds up down the line, then words and actions taken by two former, high-ranking Trump officials—Pamela Bondi and Kristi Noem—will have exposed…

Internet Resilience and Workers’ Plights
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AEIdeas

Internet Resilience and Workers’ Plights

Changes in the workplace and the way communications networks are managed have increased the scale and scope of vulnerabilities to network outages. The social costs are vast and increasing. Addressing…

A New AI Model Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game. Washington Wasn’t Ready.
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AEIdeas

A New AI Model Just Changed the Cybersecurity Game. Washington Wasn’t Ready.

This week exposed a real underlying gap: The government still lacks the systems, relationships, and technical capacity to see frontier capabilities coming. Until that changes, every Mythos moment will be…

White House AI Vetting Proposal Is Bad Policy
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AEIdeas

White House AI Vetting Proposal Is Bad Policy

The administration has been right to criticize the European Union’s heavy-handed approach to tech regulation, which has delayed product launches, chilled investment, and left European consumers behind. It would be…

Social Media Threats: Comey’s Indictment Trivializes Serious Online Attacks Against Politicians
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AEIdeas

Social Media Threats: Comey’s Indictment Trivializes Serious Online Attacks Against Politicians

Last week’s indictment of James Comey is likely not only meritless and politically driven, but it trivializes the much more serious online attacks being made today against government officials.

With Spirit’s Mugging, Antitrust Imagined An Economy That Didn’t Exist
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RealClearMarkets

With Spirit’s Mugging, Antitrust Imagined An Economy That Didn’t Exist

Before filing their cases against companies, antitrust enforcers should make sure they understand the economy we actually have—not the one they imagine.

America’s AI Rules Are Being Written in Courtrooms
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AEIdeas

America’s AI Rules Are Being Written in Courtrooms

New analysis from the University of Florida identifies a force quietly shaping the future of AI in America: the courts.

Who Benefits From AI? New Studies Offer an Answer
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AEIdeas

Who Benefits From AI? New Studies Offer an Answer

Which future we get with AI is not predetermined. It depends on the choices we make now about training, workflow redesign, and on-ramps that turn access into actual leverage.

The Five P’s: What Congress Gets Right on Data Protection but Needs Structure to Successfully Enable Privacy
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AEIdeas

The Five P’s: What Congress Gets Right on Data Protection but Needs Structure to Successfully Enable Privacy

The House Energy & Commerce Committee’s Privacy Working Group has introduced something rare in Washington: a privacy bill with real teeth. The Secure Data Act, unveiled on April 22, proposes…

Public Schools and Social Media Addiction: Billions at Stake as Groundbreaking Trial Starts in June  
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Public Schools and Social Media Addiction: Billions at Stake as Groundbreaking Trial Starts in June  

The outcome this June in a bellwether trial involving a public school district against leading social media companies for allegedly addicting the district’s students and forcing the district to handle…

Building a Global Standard for Trust and Safety
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AEIdeas

Building a Global Standard for Trust and Safety

Shane Tews, David Sullivan, and Farzaneh Badiei discuss The Safe Framework, trust and safety, and the digital services ecosystem.