Pluralistic: How to design a tech regulation (20 Jun 2024)

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How to design a tech regulation: A modest proposal for a transatlantic self-equilibriating system.
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Pluralistic: The new globalism is global labor (20 May 2024)

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The new globalism is global labor: The Battle of Seattle's other shoe drops.
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Pluralistic: End of the line for corporate sovereignty (27 Mar 2024)

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End of the line for corporate sovereignty: ISDSes are on the ropes, and not a moment too soon.
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Pluralistic: Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis (25 Mar 2024)

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Conspiratorialism and the epistemological crisis: We may not know what's in the box, but we can tell if it's been damaged in transit.
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Pluralistic: Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself" (06 Feb 2024)

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Apple to EU: "Go fuck yourself": The dictionary definition of malicious compliance.
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Pluralistic: How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy (14 June 2023)

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How Amazon transformed the EU into a planned economy: Monopsony, junk fees and market power.
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Pluralistic: To save the news, repeal the app tax (07 June 2023)

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To save the news, repeal the app tax: The latest in "saving the news from Big Tech."
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Pluralistic: Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher (15 May 2023)

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Ireland's privacy regulator is a gamekeeper-turned-poacher: Dublin is a made town.
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Pluralistic: How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store (21 Dec 2022)

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How Apple could open its App Store without really opening its App Store: …and what we should do about it.
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Pluralistic: EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead' (07 Dec 2022)

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EU to Facebook, 'Drop Dead': Ringing down the curtain on the consent theater.
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