Legislation passed this month by New York’s Senate and Assembly raises serious First Amendment and due process concerns about the government’s ability to compel news organizations to tell the public…
By Clay Calvert | June 23, 2026
Our paper thus reckons age-gating proposals as disproportionate restrictions on the rights of children and society at large. Or as Amnesty International has observed, “right diagnosis, wrong prescription.”
By Bronwyn Howell | June 18, 2026
Bipartisan legislation proposed last week in the US Senate by Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) provides sound ways to push back against and expose the underhanded, informal brand…
By Clay Calvert | June 16, 2026
So while the CMA’s decision prioritizes the rights and transparency needs of firms relying on a “strategic,” regulated company, it does so at the expense of end-consumer confidence in the…
By Bronwyn Howell | June 12, 2026
The FCC's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking asks whether the E-Rate program should be changed to reflect today's digital environment. The honest answer is that we don't know, because we've never…
By Daniel Lyons | June 11, 2026
A recent poll conducted for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression indicates that a large portion the public is concerned about the federal government pressuring private businesses to influence…
By Clay Calvert | June 9, 2026
Congress and the White House are moving to micromanage railroads — putting a main artery of the U.S. economy at risk
By Mark Jamison | June 9, 2026
A federal privacy law with meaningful preemption would not eliminate every cost of privacy regulation, but it would make those costs more predictable and more uniform.
By Will Rinehart | June 8, 2026
The domain name registration market has a serious but solvable problem: An estimated one in five sales currently benefit criminal actors. New research puts that reality in sharp focus, and…
By Shane Tews | June 8, 2026
Shane is joined by Aubrey Wilson to discuss how Congress can provide members and staff with the training, guardrails, and practical support they need to use AI responsibly and effectively.
By Shane Tews | June 5, 2026
Lawmakers can break free from their Groundhog Day-like repetitive cycle of statutory futility in regulating social media platforms by adopting their own public-information campaigns and digital literacy programs to help…
By Clay Calvert | June 4, 2026
As we proceed deeper into an AI economy where scarce but expensive human resources are required to buttress against the excesses of (near-costlessly generated) AI spam, such taxes offer an…
By Bronwyn Howell | June 3, 2026
The SECURE Data Act would improperly sweep away state laws and legal approaches that help protect privacy and data security.
By Jim Harper | June 2, 2026
The smartphone is a meticulously engineered security architecture, and the European Commission's Draft Measures under the Digital Markets Act now threaten its integrity.
By Shane Tews | June 1, 2026
A week ago, I had the chance to attend Google I/O, which made one thing clear: the next phase of AI isn't about the extraordinary. It's about the everyday.
By John Bailey | May 29, 2026