Link: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/amer...

Thanks to @pwbeck.bsky.social for excellent editing.

For decades, the US called Europe's data restrictions thinly veiled protectionism. Then Washington passed sweeping data export bans.

My piece in @lawfaremedia.org: regulatory actions reveal more about a country's self-assessment than any speech. Here, weakness.

America Used to Own the Internet. Now It’s Running Scared. The U.S. restricted data transfers abroad. Cast as an assertion of sovereignty, the new posture signals weakness in great-power competition.

The United States new push to restrict its data exports suggests the administration feels a diminished control over online platforms and infrastructure and a lack of confidence in technological dominance, writes @nikenberger.bsky.social.

Amazing, thanks!

Regulating Manipulative Design is Not Preempted by CDA 230 or the First Amendment

ssrn.com/abstract=558...

another round of edits/updates ... publication in May 2026

Friction in Games and Computational Media

proa.ua.pt/index.php/jdmi

Hello Houston (February 24, 2026) | Houston Public Media Today: We discuss a landmark social media addiction trial, talk with New York Times best-selling author Meg Medina, explore how influencers are driving the Texas Democratic Senate race, and more.

Spoke with @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social about the California social media addiction case. Listen in here: www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/sho...

Rather than demonstrating confidence, the protectionist turn is a sign of American vulnerability. It reveals deep-seated insecurities—if not an unintended admission that the United States is losing ground in a technological “great power competition.”

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

📣 Restricting Data Flows Is a Sign of Weakness

The seismic shift in US data trade policy may appear as a muscular regulatory flex domestically and a display of national strength internationally. However, the opposite is true.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Yes. Exactly the same thing.

Some data protection absurdities from Bavaria: the DPA lectures a citizen who photographs illegally parked cars on bike paths, insisting he use “secure IT systems” and inform the offenders, including giving them a right to object to the data processing.
www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/elt...

Hello Houston Full Episode - December 18, 2025 YouTube video by Houston Public Media

Spoke with @houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social about the Warner Bros./Netflix merger and why FTC/DoJ should block it. Thanks for having me; it was fun!
www.youtube.com/live/4AXFM-C...

Seconded!

Amazing opportunity at ISP!

Law & Technology Workshop Email newsletter for the Law & Technology Workshop

Join us for the Law and Technology Workshop, 10/3, noon ET, featuring Nick Nugent

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Thanks for having me and wonderful to see you all!

This week’s Law & Tech Talk examined “The Platform-Property Paradox.” Thank you to @nikenberger.bsky.social for a magnificent presentation!

Thanks so much for having me! Wonderful to see everyone @yaleisp.bsky.social

Excited about this!

Contributed to reporting on smart glasses by @fullofwords.bsky.social: www.eweek.com/news/halo-x-...

US-Gericht - Google wird nicht zerschlagen

For Google and Apple alone, the decision added roughly $330 billion to their market capitalization. It’s a win for tech monopolies — and a loss for innovation.

www.deutschlandfunk.de/google-wird-...

US-Gericht - Google wird nicht zerschlagen

Contributed to reporting by @nilsdampz.bsky.social on the United States v. Google ruling.

After finding last year that Google maintained an illegal monopoly, the court handed down only lukewarm remedies — a gift to Big Tech that does little to curb monopoly power.

The Court just gifted Google and Apple around 335B, relative to market expectations, in United States v. Google.

Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly

It's hard to restore competition in a market that has already been crushed -- and I suspect the judge's cautious ruling requiring the very least from Google is not going to give competitors enough of a reason to jump back in to create search products.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...

After 5 long years, a federal court found that Google had an unlawful monopoly and then did little to address it. Here’s DuckDuckGo’s statement from the other site:

This is bad. Very bad.

So, even where courts find illegal monopolization, the remedies are weak.

Just ask, if you were Google, would you do it all again?

Looking forward to this!

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