Pluralistic: Expert agencies and elected legislatures (21 Nov 2024)

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Expert agencies and elected legislatures: Legislatures are entitled to their own (political) opinions but not their own facts.
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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: Big Tech disrupted disruption (08 Feb 2024)

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Big Tech disrupted disruption: We don't have to care, we're the phone company.
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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: At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy (16 August 2023)

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At long last, a meaningful step to protect Americans' privacy: The CFPB rejects the learned helplessness of generations of regulators.
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Pluralistic: 1,000,000 stranded Southwest passengers deserved better from Pete Buttigieg (16 Jan 2023)

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1,000,000 stranded Southwest passengers deserved better from Pete Buttigieg: The worst US aviation failure in history was a long time coming, and could have been averted.
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Pluralistic: The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg (10 Jan 2023)

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The learned helplessness of Pete Buttigieg: Section 41712(a) or bust.
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Pluralistic: 13 Jun 2022

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Podcasting "Regulatory Capture": My column about the difference between a left and a right theory of sound regulation.
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Pluralistic: 30 Aug 2020

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We don't know why you don't want to have public sex: But it's probably not because of Arabian babblers.
Big Tech welcomes (some) regulation: Monkey's paw ju-jitsu.
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