Brendan Carr of the FCC unilaterally waives anti-propaganda rule that limits single ownership of local TV stations -- what could possibly go wrong
nbcnews.com/business/media…
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Tim Wu
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Tim Wu
@superwuster
Professor at Columbia Contributing opinion writer at the N.Y. Times Author of THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (2025), the ATTENTION MERCHANTS and other books.
New York, NY Katılım Mayıs 2008
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If you teach law students, seems worth taking a look at the list of free or inexpensive casebooks before assigning the $300+ books -- here's a list
james.grimmelmann.net/files/casebooks
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On the LA social media trial(s) "Social Media is a Defective Product"
nytimes.com/2026/03/14/opi…
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This captures my feelings about the ticketmaster settlement -- let's see how the states do.
thesling.org/the-justice-de…
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According to this, DoJ trial lawyers in the Ticketmaster case learned about a settlement at the same time the trial judge did. It takes so much time & effort to bring these cases on behalf of the public, such a disservice
Inner City Press@innercitypress
Judge: Mr Dahlquist, how could the experts and work product be transferred? "DOJ" Dahlquist: I only saw the term sheet when you did. Judge: You are lead trial counsel and you were only told when I asked this morning? Dahlquist: Correct
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Tim Wu retweetledi
Justice Dept has reached a deal with Live Nation/Ticketmaster, which will be forced to pay nearly $300 million in damages to the 40 states that sued over inflated concert ticket prices. The deal also requires Live Nation to sell many of its amphitheaters, sources briefed on the deal told @CBSNews
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This seems very unfortunate
Jennifer Jacobs@JenniferJJacobs
Justice Dept has reached a deal with Live Nation/Ticketmaster, which will be forced to pay nearly $300 million in damages to the 40 states that sued over inflated concert ticket prices. The deal also requires Live Nation to sell many of its amphitheaters, sources briefed on the deal told @CBSNews
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I can't out of my head the apparent fact that we (the US) blew up a school and killed over 150 school-aged girls. reuters.com/world/middle-e…
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Professor Mathew Lawrence of Emory has written some of the most insightful stuff on social media and the rise of a public health approach to it -- (eg fixed link): journaloffreespeechlaw.org/lawrence.pdf
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This is (1) a Congressman proposing an end-run around Congress and (2) horribly unfair -- so I guess both points make it more likely to happen
Jeff Stein@JStein_WaPo
SCOOP: Sen. Ted Cruz on Monday sent Treasury Secretary Bessent a letter calling for a $200 billion tax cut *without Congressional approval* Would slash capital gains taxes by adjusting basis for inflation Comes as GOP seeks better numbers on economy washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…
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@mattyglesias What about "read headline not written by author and base conclusions off of that"
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@CarelessPhysics The point is that the plain reading of the statute gave a result that the majority didn't want
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@superwuster So we go with plain reading and get to the same result, your motivated reasoning aside
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The Spineless Nine:
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Allen Overy Shearman Sterling
- Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
- Latham & Watkins
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
- Milbank
- Willkie Farr & Gallagher
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
- Kirkland & Ellis
Sam Stein@samstein
Trump admn is dropping its law firm sanctions. So humiliating for those firms who preemptively settled wsj.com/us-news/law/tr…
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The law firms like Paul Weiss that went along with Trump's unenforceable orders deserve all the scorn they've received
nytimes.com/2026/03/02/us/…
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@superwuster @odie_jackson You seem to have forgotten that nothing matters in federal government unless it serves Trump
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