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Let’s rethink market power in tech
Sometimes asking the right question makes all of the difference. In July of this year, my friends and former students at the National Communications Authority of Ghana asked me to speak on the...
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Sprint and Tidal: Expanding the planes of competition
The ink is not yet dry on Ajit Pai’s promotion to Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). But the market is already responding to an anticipated relaxation of the regulatory...
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Protecting consumers from the FTC: Three cheers for harm!
In the waning days of her time as head of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), former Chairwoman Edith Ramirez initiated two problematic enforcement actions: a “pure” Section 5 Unfair Methods of...
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Why repealing Title II will benefit consumers and the economy
One of the excesses of the Obama administration was the tendency to create regulations that stopped good things from happening. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), under the leadership of...
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Apple in Australia: Consecrating competition law or a case for cooperation?
Last month, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) began legal proceedings against Apple for alleged breaches of Australian consumer protection law. Papers were filed just days after...
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Three fears that hamper tech progress
Would the world be a better place if the government required Taylor Swift to sometimes sing off key? Obviously not, but some of those calling for shackles on tech progress seem to think so. Why is...
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When you don’t have the FCC picking winners and losers, you have to compete
Right now, it is almost a national sport to hate the “mainstream media.” And with tone-deaf abandon, the mainstream media is just adding fuel to that fire. A few days ago, a group of billionaire...
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Tech is destroying jobs: And it’s a good thing, too
It seems increasingly common for politicians, journalists, and pundits to engage in hand-wringing over how tech is destroying jobs: President Barack Obama complained that bank ATMs and airport kiosks...
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America’s lopsided economy: Tech job edition
Congressional Democrats say they’re attacking “monopolies and the concentration of economic” power with their “Better Deal” policy agenda. But perhaps the more relevant issue is the increasing...
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Are tech firms too big to let live?
Is satisfying large numbers of customers a bad thing? It would seem so. Democrats in the US Senate take it as an article of faith that large companies are bad. Many pundits fret over the successes of...
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