Businesses and startups alike have long served to drive American ingenuity and growth. Within the United States alone, over 75,000 successful startups have broken into the marketplace, leading the US…
By Shane Tews | November 18, 2024
“To expect the unexpected,” Oscar Wilde wrote in his 1895 play An Ideal Husband, “shows a thoroughly modern intellect.” If so, then when it comes to predicting developments in the second Trump…
By Michael M. Rosen | November 15, 2024
Can a law violate the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech because it does too little or regulates too few actors to substantially mitigate the harms and advance the interests it’s designed to address? The…
By Clay Calvert | November 13, 2024
The suicide of 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III this February is tragic, but should the individuals and business entities behind the generative artificial intelligence product known as Character.AI that allegedly caused…
By Clay Calvert | November 12, 2024
The European Union presents businesses with a complex challenge: They must comply with three major regulatory frameworks that sometimes have conflicting requirements. These frameworks are the General Data Protection Regulation…
By Shane Tews | November 11, 2024
The game of reading political outcomes is more art than science, especially at the national level. Election results turn on hundreds or thousands of policy and campaign margins. There is…
By Jim Harper | November 11, 2024
While the eyes of much of the country were on Pennsylvania and Georgia last week, the tech community was focused on Cincinnati, where the US Court of Appeals for the…
| November 8, 2024
It’s an all-too-predictable, rinse-and-repeat pattern: (1) A state adopts a statute to protect minors from the social media’s supposedly deleterious effects; (2) the law is challenged on First Amendment grounds; (3) a…
By Clay Calvert | November 7, 2024
The Program on the Economics of Privacy at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School has been looking at empirical evidence around people’s privacy interests. Among their recent presentations was a paper in progress…
By Jim Harper | November 5, 2024
Much digital ink has been spilled over The Washington Post’s decision to forgo endorsing a presidential candidate this year. The Post frames this as a return to its roots, with owner Jeff Bezos reportedly viewing it…
By Mark Jamison | November 4, 2024
In the early days of the internet, a commonly-heard mantra was “information wants to be free.” To many, this meant no charges should be imposed for either the use of…
By Bronwyn Howell | November 1, 2024
Arriving at the polls on November 5, some voters will be tempted to capture and post a selfie with their completed ballot, perhaps to let followers know who they voted…
By Clay Calvert | October 29, 2024
Quick Response (QR) codes, those black and white squares whose popularity surged with the rise of contactless interactions during the COVID-19 pandemic, from restaurant menus to parking meters, have become…
By Shane Tews | October 25, 2024
The US Supreme Court’s 2024 rulings involving social media platforms and First Amendment issues provided fodder for earlier posts drilling into matters such as the right to listenand Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s prominent…
By Clay Calvert | October 23, 2024
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) has directly challenged US Trade Representative (USTR) Katherine Tai’s adamant opposition to stronger digital trade rules in US trade agreements. She charged that USTR has “stopped standing up…
By Claude Barfield | October 18, 2024