A US federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1
Document #65 Ryan Mac / New York Times : Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores Anthony Kimery / Biometric Update : Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law as unconstitutiona...
Sources: the US DOJ is conducting a criminal antitrust probe into whether Live Nation and AEG illegally colluded on concert refunds at the start of the pandemic
Bloomberg : X: @matthewstoller and @benbrodydc See also Mediagazer X: Matt Stoller / @matthewstoller : A criminal antitrust probe of Live Nation-Ticketmaster? Yes please. https://www.bloomberg.com/.....
US FTC Chair Andrew Ferguson announces an inquiry into “Big Tech censorship”, which he calls “un-American” and “potentially illegal”, and seeks public comment
including ‘shadow banning’ Sean Burch / The Wrap : Trump-Appointed FTC Chair Launches Big Tech Inquiry for ‘Bullying’ and Censorship Sean Burch / TVNewsCheck : Trump-Appointed FTC Chair Launches Big T...
A profile of White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, who has crafted a strategy to stop China from unseating the US as the world's tech superpower
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : X: @mcfaul , @anderscorr , @wiredscience , @issielapowsky , @benbrodydc , and @issielapowsky . LinkedIn: Shannon Brandao Forums: r/neoliberal , r/mlscaling , r/technews , and...
A US federal appeals court upholds the Texas social media content moderation law, lifting an injunction that blocked it and remanding it back to the lower court
Justice Department Appeals Parts of Judge's Ruling on Documents Seized at Trump's Mar-a-Lago David McCabe / New York Times : A federal court clears the way for a Texas social media law. Rebecca Kern /...
A House and Senate bipartisan data privacy bill would let users opt out of targeted ads and sue internet companies that improperly sell their data, and more
To provide consumers with foundational data privacy rights … Msmash / Slashdot : Lawmakers Reignite Battle for Federal Privacy Law Ben Brody / Protocol : Congress is actually taking a go at a real pri...
Interview with DOJ antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter, his first since taking office, on the agency's goals, clamping down on mergers, and more
Bloomberg : Tweets: @stuloren , @paulaedwyer , @tina_davis , and @benbrodydc Tweets: Stuart Loren / @stuloren : 1/ Antitrust wasn't my best grade in law school, but I learned enough to know that you ...
Profile of the Coalition for App Fairness, a group launched by Epic, Spotify, Tile, Match Group, and others to fight Google and Apple's app store policies
Ben Brody / Protocol :
Profile of the Coalition for App Fairness, a group created by Epic, Spotify, Match Group, and others, seeking to open Google and Apple app stores to competition
Ben Brody / Protocol : Tweets: @benbrodydc , @appfairness , @adamkovac , and @wexler Tweets: Ben Brody / @benbrodydc : Of all the Big Tech antitrust fights, the hardest punches probably landed in app...
Biden names Jessica Rosenworcel to officially lead the FCC, nominates Gigi Sohn as third Democratic commissioner, but it's unclear if Senate will confirm soon
On the surface — and maybe this is close to how the company wants … Diana Goovaerts / FierceTelecom : Biden taps Rosenworcel, Davidson to fill key telecom posts at FCC, NTIA Ben Brody / Protocol : Bid...