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Korea should pass a coherent digital asset framework that gives firms room to build and compete. Restrictions on stablecoin issuers and crypto exchanges should demonstrate measurable public benefits.

Instead of banning or disincentivizing the use of personalized recommendation algorithms to address online radicalization, policymakers should promote targeted interventions that empower users to shape their content experience, encourage responsible innovation, and support appropriate transparency and independent research into potential risks.

Protecting children online and preserving the benefits of a free, secure, and innovative digital world should not be competing goals. Australia should adopt policies that are narrowly targeted to demonstrable harms, provide companies with clear and workable compliance obligations, and preserve strong encryption for users of all ages.

The EU’s proposed KIDS ACT risks isolating children from valuable online communities through sweeping restrictions that fail to address specific harms or provide better alternatives.

A German court held Meta liable for fraudulent third-party ads based on how its algorithms rank content, potentially expanding platform liability under the EU’s Digital Services Act. Instead of discouraging platforms from using these algorithms, policymakers should preserve knowledge-based liability protections and focus enforcement on the fraudsters responsible for scam ads.

Foreign online piracy causes significant economic harm to U.S. creative industries, yet American courts lack the authority to block foreign pirate sites. Congress should adopt carefully designed site-blocking legislation that targets large-scale piracy while minimizing the risk of overblocking.

Europe cannot match the United States and China in closed AI models, but it has an opportunity to lead in open models. The EU should remove regulatory and procurement barriers and foster a global open-model ecosystem.

Canada was right to scrap the streaming levy, which would have functioned as a consumption tax on Netflix and Disney+ subscribers without ensuring that the money supported Canadian shows they would actually watch.

The United States has imposed tariffs on Canada and mused about making it the 51st state, and Canadians are reasonably asking what it means to run hospitals and government services on infrastructure operated by firms answerable to US law and, in the end, to US politics.

Antitrust battles over digital markets have spread well beyond Big Tech to other leading online firms, threatening productivity and dynamism across the digital economy.