While ITIF believes that the New Draft Merger Guidelines have many features that will significantly improve merger enforcement in Europe, there remain a number of areas where the guidelines can and should be substantially improved.

Regulatory interventions should be calibrated to the nature and magnitude of the harm they address, should not restrict beneficial uses of AI in pursuit of harms that existing law already addresses, and should preserve the open information environment that has underpinned both technological innovation and European cultural production

ITIF supports applicants seeking to vacate a Fifth Circuit stay that allowed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to immediately enforce Texas’s App Store Accountability Act, a law requiring app stores to implement age-verification and parental consent restrictions.

The Commission should lean into technological advancements that have made Intercarrier Compensation and the Connect America Fund unnecessary, not delay at the expense of consumers.

Rather than building on the crumbled foundation of the scarcity-rationale cases, the Commission should unwind all content-based regulations within its control, send the signal the Supreme Court invited that the underpinnings of the scarcity rationale are defunct, and decline to defend unconstitutional enforcement actions.

The Draft Law is contrary to Vietnam’s goals of both fostering homegrown innovation and deepening its techno-economic partnership with the United States.

At a time of unprecedented growth in the broadband market, California’s broadband laws remain unchanged, and it is costing consumers faster, more reliable Internet.

Decades of experience without a single negative consequence attributable to an unexpected attribute of biotech-improved crops provides a robust falsification of the hazard hypothesis on which the 1986 Coordinated Framework was predicated.

ITIF believes that in many important respects the Draft Guidance appears to broadly track the EU’s own revised technology transfer guidance (Revised EU Guidance) on technology pools in a largely unproblematic way but rightly declines to follow the Revised EU Guidance’s discussion of the competitive analysis involving licensing negotiation groups.

The bill would impose heavy restrictions on the ability of America’s leading digital platforms to engage in a wide array of common, overwhelmingly procompetitive behavior.