Wrestling with Hulk Hogan’s Litigation Legacy for Online Journalism
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Wrestling with Hulk Hogan’s Litigation Legacy for Online Journalism

It’s the season when celebrities-who-died-this-year lists proliferate. Terry Gene Bollea—the wrestler Hulk Hogan—will make most 2025 rolls, but his legacy may be his influence over online journalism. Bollea, who died…

Digital Currency as a Network (with Milton Mueller, Karim Farhat, Vagisha Srivastava, and Nicoletta Kolpakov)
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Digital Currency as a Network (with Milton Mueller, Karim Farhat, Vagisha Srivastava, and Nicoletta Kolpakov)

How should we address the governance gap between central banks controlling money and the oversight of cryptocurrency? How can decentralized crypto networks and centralized monetary authorities collaborate? And what’s next…

What’s at Stake with the App Store Freedom Act
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What’s at Stake with the App Store Freedom Act

Americans benefit every day from the world’s most dynamic, secure, and innovative mobile platforms—Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. These ecosystems launched mobile e-commerce and continue to fuel its unprecedented growth,…

The FTC Failed Against Meta Because It Misunderstands Dynamism
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The FTC Failed Against Meta Because It Misunderstands Dynamism

Meta’s big win Tuesday is a victory not only for the company, but also for anyone who believes antitrust law should be grounded in realities, not ideology. A federal judge struck…

The Hidden Economy Behind Every Scam Email
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The Hidden Economy Behind Every Scam Email

Remember the last time you got a text that felt off? Maybe it claimed that your package was delayed or mentioned an unpaid toll, with a link to a website…

Mobilizing Data for the Military and Beyond
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Mobilizing Data for the Military and Beyond

Last week, I commented on the infeasibility of establishing a state-of-the-art data center on Australia’s Indian Ocean outpost Christmas Island. While the island is strategically well situated to monitor military…

As Expected, Meta Wins Antitrust Grudge Match
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As Expected, Meta Wins Antitrust Grudge Match

For the first two decades of its existence, the American tech sector flourished under a bipartisan celebration of the country’s global leadership at the cutting edge of digital innovation. Then,…

The Flawed Firing of a Public University Professor: First Amendment Lessons About Online Speech Rights
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The Flawed Firing of a Public University Professor: First Amendment Lessons About Online Speech Rights

By late September, the New York Times had identified “more than 145” instances of people being “fired, suspended, reassigned or pushed to resign . . . for things they said…

Antitrust’s Iceberg Problem: Failing to See What Lies Beneath
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Antitrust’s Iceberg Problem: Failing to See What Lies Beneath

Antitrust enforcement in the United States too often fails to deliver what it promises. The Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission have won historic cases—the breakups of Standard Oil and…

Restoring America’s Cyber Shield: Why CISA 2015 Must Be Reenacted Now
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Restoring America’s Cyber Shield: Why CISA 2015 Must Be Reenacted Now

The United States faces a cybersecurity crisis: not from foreign actors, but from internal political deadlock that has dismantled one of its most effective defense tools. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing…

Australia Wishes for Cloud Data Storage for Christmas
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Australia Wishes for Cloud Data Storage for Christmas

On November 6, Reuters reported that Google was planning to build a large artificial intelligence data center on Australia’s Indian Ocean territory—Christmas Island—after signing a deal with the Australian Department…

Financial Data upon Request (with Penny Lee)
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Financial Data upon Request (with Penny Lee)

Section 1033 of the Dodd–Frank Act is the foundation of open banking in the United States—giving individuals the right to access and share their own financial data with services of…

The App Store Freedom Act Would Hurt Those It Claims to Protect
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The App Store Freedom Act Would Hurt Those It Claims to Protect

It has become popular in both parties to believe that the government should be in the business of being in business. From Democrats proposing city-run grocery stores to Republicans buying…

Fourth Amendment Doctrine vs. Textualism
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Fourth Amendment Doctrine vs. Textualism

The Federalist Society produced a webinar recently that I found fascinating, not only because I was a panelist. There was a marked divergence of opinion on Fourth Amendment law. I…

Analyzing the Charter-Cox Merger
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Analyzing the Charter-Cox Merger

Earlier this year, Charter Communications, Inc. and Cox Communications announced a $34.5 billion proposed merger. If completed, the combined company would become both the largest cable television provider and the…