John Samples: Facebook's Oversight Board Was Right To Uphold Trump Ban
A member of the board (and a Cato Institute vice president) defends the controversial decision to kick the former president off the social media platform.
A member of the board (and a Cato Institute vice president) defends the controversial decision to kick the former president off the social media platform.
"It's very obvious that nobody involved in [the bill] consulted a First Amendment lawyer," says TechFreedom's Berin Szóka.
By invoking the magic of good intentions, the Times justifies the U.S. acting like Russia and China.
Hawley’s legislation would give officials more room to unilaterally punish business behaviors they personally don’t like.
This tech/media fight down under is not about democracy or monopolies. It’s about ad revenue.
Online companies might not be as nefarious as you think.
Some trends to look for over the next four years
Amazon denies any impropriety in its decision to suspend the Twitter alternative, dismissing the suit as "meritless."
After a 16-month investigation into the big four tech companies, it seems the most that congressional busybodies can accuse them of is routine business practices and having popular services.
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If the lawsuit were to succeed, it would hurt the people it seeks to help.
The Supreme Court has decided to hear a case challenging the legality of NCAA rules restricting compensation for college athletes. Legal issues aside, the policy case for abolishing these rules is strong.
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Republicans and Democrats are working together on an antitrust push against big tech. It will backfire big-time.
It's hard to take seriously complaints that there are no alternatives to Facebook when they're made on Twitter.
The government is going after Google not to stop consumer harm but to level the business playing field.
Government claims Google uses its power to force users and advertisers on board. Google says that its popularity is not anticompetitive.
Enforcement is supposed to be about protecting "consumer welfare." Overturning that goal would be bad for all of us.
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This isn't a debate about consumer needs. It's all about political control.
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The scary monopoly power on display Wednesday was the federal government's.
"I think you might be referring to what happened on Twitter."
The lawmaker says that the company's data practices violate antitrust law. They do not.
Law professors Tim Wu and Richard Epstein went head to head at a live event.
Tim Wu vs. Richard Epstein on whether antitrust laws should be applied to firms like Amazon and Facebook.
It's time to stop trying to cartelize the market for law clerks
Henry Hazlitt's insights were far more sophisticated than one modern critic thinks.
Amazon, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are in the federal government's crosshairs, but the technology necessary to undermine their dominance may already exist.
Everybody’s going after Google and Facebook. But how do you prove they’re harming consumers?
Left and right are joining forces under the banner of “hipster antitrust.”
Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, and "hipster antitrust" scholars and activists say big tech companies need to be broken up. Economist Tom Hazlett says they're wrong.
Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are all in the federal government’s crosshairs.
Both Democrats and Republicans are cheerleading for government action against Facebook, Google, Amazon, and the rest, but Americans should be skeptical.
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Bill de Blasio: "We are supposed to break up big corporations when they're not serving our democracy."
Stanford Law professor and former Google attorney Daphne Keller says tech giants are facing pressure from governments worldwide to clamp down on content.
Consolidation in hospital markets is one cause of rising healthcare costs.
Being a big company is not a crime. What problem are we trying to fix?
The "blogfather" once touted the internet as the antidote to Big Government, Big Business, and Big Media. Now he wants the feds to crack down on social media.
The Supreme Court's dueling opinions in Apple, Inc. v. Pepper raise interesting questions about textualist statutory interpretation.
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Tariffs, threats to use antitrust regulations against big tech firms, and an interest in social media regulation could overshadow one of the adminstration's big victories
The Department of Justice is threatening antitrust action if the Academy keeps out streaming services like Netflix.
Europeans want the best of America's online services, even as the government keeps soaking them for billions.
Elizabeth Warren, Donald Trump, Tucker Carlson, and most of the 2020 presidential field agree that tech companies have too power. But maybe they don't like the competition.
George Mason's Todd Zywicki says the senator and presidential hopeful has inherited the ideas of Louis Brandeis without learning the lessons of overregulation.