Nikolas Guggenberger

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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.”

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📣 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.

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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.
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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!
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Seconded!

Amazing opportunity at ISP!

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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.

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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.

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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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Interesting, maybe. I assumed they just think users preferred LLM output and wanted to keep up with LLM development.

But would it even? Google has been doing it quite excessively and I don't think people have lost trust.

Red Tape Isn’t the Only Reason America Can’t Build The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy. The real story is more complicated.

In @theatlantic.com, Asad Ramzanali and I argue why an “abundance agenda” approach hasn’t solved and won’t solve a long-held policy goal of providing affordable, high-speed internet to everyone in the United States. 1/7

First want to thank folks for a truly overwhelming and warm welcome back to social media. My aim is to provide useful info on areas of law I know well, so I very much hope I can return to academic seclusion soon.

Many thanks to @lawfaremedia.org for running my analysis on such a quick turnaround. The theory of inherent pres power invoked last night is limited. I’ll have more on the tortured history of this assertion of pres power in the days to come.

I was off social media for a few yrs, but decided that it's time to come back after last night. I'm an asst. prof. at Uni of Houston Law Center and before that was an attorney at DoD OGC, where my portfolio included domestic military deployments. This continues to be a core part of my research.