Nikolas Guggenberger
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Asst Prof, University of Houston Law Center
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...
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Hello Houston Full Episode - December 18, 2025
YouTube video by Houston Public Media
https://www.youtube.com/live/4AXFM-CVFAo?si=eMF8w6NQu7oPjJjD&t=1623
about 8 hours ago
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School
3 months ago
Amazing opportunity at ISP!
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Join us for the Law and Technology Workshop, 10/3, noon ET, featuring Nick Nugent
law-technology-workshop.beehiiv.com/p/law-and-te...
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Law & Technology Workshop
Email newsletter for the Law & Technology Workshop
https://law-technology-workshop.beehiiv.com/p/law-and-technology-workshop
3 months ago
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Thanks for having me and wonderful to see you all!
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3 months ago
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The Information Society Project at Yale Law School
3 months ago
This week’s Law & Tech Talk examined “The Platform-Property Paradox.” Thank you to
@nikenberger.bsky.social
for a magnificent presentation!
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Thanks so much for having me! Wonderful to see everyone
@yaleisp.bsky.social
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3 months ago
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Excited about this!
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3 months ago
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Contributed to reporting on smart glasses by
@fullofwords.bsky.social
:
www.eweek.com/news/halo-x-...
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These AI Smart Glasses Are Always Recording: Risks & Benefits
Halo X glasses don’t have a camera and don’t indicate when they’re recording audio. We talk to experts about the possible legal and security risks users need to know.
https://www.eweek.com/news/halo-x-smart-glasses-risks-benefits/
4 months ago
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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.
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US-Gericht - Google wird nicht zerschlagen
https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/google-wird-nicht-zerschlagen-100.html
4 months ago
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The Court just gifted Google and Apple around 335B, relative to market expectations, in United States v. Google.
4 months ago
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Julia Angwin
4 months ago
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...
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Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/technology/google-search-antitrust-decision.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytimes
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Joseph Jerome
4 months ago
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:
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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?
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4 months ago
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Join an amazing group of scholars at UH incl.
@chrismirasola.bsky.social
@leahfowler.bsky.social
@nikenberger.bsky.social
@petersalib.bsky.social
@lauraportuondo.bsky.social
@jessiebregant.bsky.social
@amangebru.bsky.social
@dfroomkin.bsky.social
and more with better things to do than Bluesky!
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5 months ago
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📢 We are hiring! Come join us at the University of Houston. - 3 entry-level tenure-track faculty members in crim; employment and labor law; and torts; - a clinical assistant/associate professor to teach lawyering skills and strategies; - a full/associate professor in health law. Qs? Reach out!
5 months ago
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6 months ago
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
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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.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/rural-broadband-biden-trump/683088/
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Chris Mirasola
6 months ago
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.
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Chris Mirasola
6 months ago
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.
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Chris Mirasola
6 months ago
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.
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Florian Ederer
7 months ago
Common leadership (two firms sharing executives or board directors) contributes to collusion. Collusion probability between two firms increases by 12 percentage points after the onset of common leadership, compared to only 1.2 percent in the absence of common leaders.
www.nber.org/papers/w33866
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Collusion through Common Leadership
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
https://www.nber.org/papers/w33866
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Spoke with Rachel Barber of
@usatoday.com
about potential tariffs on iPhones.
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
7 months ago
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Tracey Forrest and I explain why we need three pillars for strategic innovation in quantum technology: 1) a vigorous public research ecosystem, 2) an enabling open market, and 3) appropriate regulation at the deployment level. Via
@justsecurity.org
:
www.justsecurity.org/111038/marke...
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Structuring Markets for Strategic Quantum Innovation
To harness quantum's full potential, governments should create a market environment conducive to strategic innovation.
https://www.justsecurity.org/111038/market-structure-strategic-quantum-innovation/
7 months ago
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Wrote something for
@justsecurity.org
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7 months ago
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Spoke with Hello Houston of
@houstonpublicmedia.bsky.social
about the Google
#antitrust
cases. If I’d known there was going to be video, I would've thrown on a shirt.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YGw...
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Legal expert explains Google antitrust lawsuits
YouTube video by Houston Public Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YGwqpm7occ
8 months ago
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Spoke with
@bypaigegross.bsky.social
of
@statesnewsroom.com
about the impact of tariffs on tech.
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/tech...
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Tech-related tariffs remain uncertain, but prepare for cost hikes, experts say
The price of technology goods and services in the U.S. will likely rise in the next few months, experts say, as the White House continues to shift its strategy on tariffs for imported electronic hardw...
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/tech-related-tariffs-remain-uncertain-prepare-cost-hikes-experts-say
8 months ago
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Spoke with Alexis Keenan about potential lawsuits aiming to enforce the TikTok ban.
finance.yahoo.com/news/the-leg...
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The legal problems facing a new Trump TikTok rescue — and why they may not matter
A TikTok rescue reportedly being pursued by President Trump may not fully cut ties between the social media app and its Chinese parent company. But such a deal may survive any challenges due to how th...
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/the-legal-problems-facing-a-new-trump-tiktok-rescue--and-why-they-may-not-matter-133017365.html
9 months ago
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This is what I had in mind when writing Consent as Friction:
ssrn.com/abstract=493...
. Eventually, obtaining consent will become too burdensome for some business models' viability.
www.euronews.com/my-europe/20...
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French regulator fines Apple €150 million over data collection tool
Without directly condemning Apple’s data collection tool, the antitrust regulator has determined that the conditions surrounding its implementation amounted to an abuse of a dominant market position. The decision comes at a time of tension between the US and the EU over the treatment of Big Tech. #EuropeNews
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/03/31/french-antitrust-watchdog-fines-apple-150-million-over-data-collection-tool
9 months ago
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Mark Lemley
10 months ago
This is insane, particularly the nine households
www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/u...
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Peter N. Salib
10 months ago
Pleased to share that my (and Simon Goldstein's) newest article, "AI Rights for Human Safety," is forthcoming in the Virginia Law Review.
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The German debt brake has been brain dead from the get-go. It took a lost decade of growth, three year war, and US withdrawal from Europe to seriously rethink it. And even that might not be enough. Center right ideology has brought Germany to the brink.
verfassungsblog.de/brain-dead-d...
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Published: Consent as Friction. Data consent is more than a tool to facilitate choice. It can be a source of friction--like sand in the gears of algorithmic engines--to undermine the economic viability of harmful business practices. Regulators should use it as such.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
10 months ago
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Lawprofblawg
10 months ago
If you haven't read
@nikenberger.bsky.social
's "Consent as Friction," now is your chance. Excellent read.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Consent as Friction
<div> The leading technology platforms generate several hundred billion dollars annually in revenue through algorithmically personalized advertising—with perni
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4938421
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John Sands
10 months ago
It loses some pith in translation, but I think about this gem every day: SPIEGEL: Professor, two weeks ago, the world still seemed alright. ADORNO: Not to me.
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Sascha O. Becker
10 months ago
Occasional reminder of differences PRE German partition. See (pdf) 👉
www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
@lukasmergele.bsky.social
@woessmann.bsky.social
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Overlooked aspect of the German elections that should update everyone's perceptions of the FDP (traditionally pro-business, classic liberal party): 20% of its 2021 electorate migrated to the AfD. And that is after the FDP's embrace of Musk/Milei-light and its pivot to the manosphere.
10 months ago
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John Burn-Murdoch
10 months ago
NEW: updated long-run gap in voting between young men and women in Germany: Gender divide continues to widen, but contrary to what is often assumed, young men continue to vote roughly in line with the overall population, while young women have swung sharply left.
www.ft.com/content/29fd...
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Superb response by
@ignaciocofone.bsky.social
to comments on his book. Thanks for including me.
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10 months ago
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Mike Drucker
10 months ago
I wrote this bit that is entirely unrelated to current things
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Voting for the Mayor Who Promised to Blow Up the City Doesn’t Mean I Approve of the Mayor Blowing Up the City
It’s so easy to label people these days. From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against...
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/voting-for-the-mayor-who-promised-to-blow-up-the-city-doesnt-mean-i-approve-of-the-mayor-blowing-up-the-city
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Does anyone know why Congress set the TikTok ban's date of entry into force as January 19?
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I spoke w/@rachelbarber.bsky.social of
@usatoday.com
about the TikTok decision:
www.usatoday.com/story/money/...
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Looming TikTok ban could have consequences far beyond just the video app
TikTok CEO Shou Zi Chew thanked Donald Trump for his commitment to "finding a solution" that keeps TikTok available in the U.S. after the ruling.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/01/17/tiktok-ban-companies-stock-market-consequences/77776799007/
11 months ago
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ryan cooper
11 months ago
ICE technology is cooked. dead man walking
www.reuters.com/business/aut...
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Global electric vehicle sales up 25% in record 2024
Global sales of fully electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles rose by a quarter last year to over 17 million cars, helped by a fourth consecutive month of record sales in December as China continued to grow and Europe stabilised, data showed on Tuesday.
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/global-electric-vehicle-sales-up-25-record-2024-2025-01-14/
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Ann M. Lipton
11 months ago
Every. Word.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/o...
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Opinion | Our Insurance System Subsidizes Moves to Disaster Zones
Our policies encourage Americans to flock to areas particularly prone to climate-related disasters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/opinion/la-fires-climate-home-insurance.html
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"Many people settle in places like Texas because housing is generally more affordable. But that affordability is a mirage: Their mortgage and insurance risks are being subsidized by everyone else." Why Are We Still Subsidizing People Moving to Disaster Zones?
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/o...
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Opinion | Our Insurance System Subsidizes Moves to Disaster Zones
Our policies encourage Americans to flock to areas particularly prone to climate-related disasters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/opinion/la-fires-climate-home-insurance.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
11 months ago
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The American Prospect
11 months ago
"Inadvertently, Zuckerberg had made the strongest case possible for breaking up Meta."
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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Zuckerberg Proves Meta Is Too Big
One monopoly company should not have the power to decree which speech is permissible and which isn’t.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-01-15-zuckerberg-proves-meta-is-too-big/
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Simple heuristic: If a platform's content moderation policy makes it into a Presidential Farewell Address, the platform's too big. Published earlier today w/@fprocaccini.bsky.social.
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If a platform's content moderation policy makes it into a Presidential Farewell Address, the platform is too big. Just published in
@theprospect.bsky.social
earlier today (w/@fprocaccini.bsky.social):
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
11 months ago
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