Category Archives: Regulations and regulators

Will 2021 Be the Year for the Right to Repair?

Will 2021 be the year that sees many states adopt a right to repair? Farmers may be the first to benefit, with digital consumers next.

Tim Berners-Lee’s Plan to Save the Internet: Give Us Back Control of Our Data

Tim Berners-Lee endorses data sovereignty, to give individuals the power to control their own data, to counter big tech’s overreach.

Betsy DeVos Is Gone, But Her Education Agenda Is Rolling Out Across the Country

Even though Betty DeVos was depicted as a textbook ogre, her education privatization agenda is advancing as if it were perfectly respectable.

More on the GameStop Short Squeeze: GME Myths Busted

Explaining why some of the nefarious theories about the evil GME short sellers are all wet.

Some Implications of the GameStop Short Squeeze

The seeming success of the GameStop short-slayers could in the long run come at high cost to some of them and most of us.

Elizabeth Warren’s Not-Ready-for-Prime-Time Robinhood/GameStop Intervention

Elizabeth Warren is back in swinging hard, but she’s not yet connecting with the balls.

The Fatuous Uproar About Robinhood and GameStop

The Robinhood contretemps shows how the US confuses a financial casino for productive activity.

TikTok Got A US Reprieve, But Elsewhere, It’s War

Tik-Tok is getting its wings clippped. But how far will containment efforts go?

Should President Biden Revoke Section 230?

“What to do about tech platforms” has fixated on Section 230, when more should be done.

Reader Query: Getting a Covid Vaccine in Your Area

ow difficult is the process for getting a Covid vaccine where you live?

Coronavirus and Banking: Evaluating Policy Options for Avoiding a Financial Crisis

A scorecard for various approaches to combatting the looming European banking crisis.

Rights Advocates Alarmed by US Spy Agency’s Purchase of Warrantless Phone Location Data

Defense Intelligence Agency skirts constitutional warrant requirements by buying location data from data brokers.

Blockbuster Lawsuit Targets Deutsche Bank Executives and Supervisors for Epic Abuses, Value Destruction

An important suit taking aim at the extensive misconduct of Deutsche Bank executives and board members is grinding its way through court.

Ins and Outs of Congressional Review Act and Climate Change Rules

The Biden administration could use the Congressional Review Act to reverse Trump rulemaking. But it’s easier said than done.