Author of “How to Regulate.” Mizzou Law prof (antitrust, corporations, contracts, regulatory economics). Recipient of much grace.✝️
Columbia, MO / Chicago
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If my law school posted this, I would hide my head in a bag.
Congratulations to #GeorgetownLaw Professor @vicnourse on her decades of hard work advocating on behalf of women's rights and the Equal Rights Amendment #ERA, which Pres. Biden this morning said should be considered the law of the land. Read more: cnn.it/3CdaV5A
Community note
The National Archivist has stated the amendment cannot be certified without action from Congress or the courts:
abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden…
Biden's January 17, 2025 statement is purely symbolic and lacks legal authority:
npr.org/2025/01/17/nx-…
The original ratification deadline of 1979 (extended to 1982) was missed:
apnews.com/article/joe-bi
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I do wish my friend would stop embarrassing himself. As he knows, S230 doesn’t insulate platforms from liability based on their own speech. When twitter fact-checked POTUS, it spoke. S230 protects it from liability for HIS speech. Without 230, it could hardly let him post.
As currently interpreted by courts, Section 230 treats #BigTech companies as passive distributors even when they substantially transform third-party content, like @Twitter did to @realDonaldTrump. They get to act like publishers, but without the accountability. That’s a problem!
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My former colleague @HawleyMO, whom I recruited to Mizzou Law and consider a friend, penned this @firstthingsmag piece. He argues that Robinhood’s restriction on GameStop trading was a Big Tech conspiracy to hold down the little guy. A few thoughts. 1/x firstthings.com/web-exclusiv…
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The problem is that the end doesn’t justify the means, at least not for Christians. Jesus clearly taught that his followers are to *be* certain sorts of people, not to achieve certain ends. And a smart person who misleads others to gain power isn’t who we’re to be. 7/x
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@HawleyMO is lying. I hate to say that of a friend, but it’s true. He’s saying things he knows are false. As many have explained, Robinhood halted certain trading to deal with a liquidity crisis. He knows there was no conspiracy to protect hedge funds. 2/x google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com…
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This new breed of Christian nationalist may retort, “Yeah, that’s a recipe for continued electoral defeat and ultimately anti-Christian policies.” To which Jesus responds, “What doth it profit a man to gain the whole world and yet lose his soul?”12/x
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But that fact doesn’t support @HawleyMO’s campaign to rail against the sort of coastal elites that, like him, went to schools such as Stanford and Yale and now, like him, have amassed power. This campaign, he hopes, will endear him to regular folks. 3/x
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So he’s said stuff he knows isn’t true. Just like he’s done when discussing Section 230. And the First Amendment. And the antitrust laws. And the validity of election challenges. 4/x
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Come home @HawleyMO. I personally miss the old you, and we Missourians want you to lead us with integrity. My hunch is that if you do so, you’ll advance politically. But even if you don’t, you will have put first things first. END
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For the Christian politician, electoral success and advancement is a second thing. Christian virtue—truthfulness, kindness, humility, peacemaking—must come first. “Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.” 11/x
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The sort of “muscular” Christian who views political success as paramount for protecting religion, and thus as an objective to be achieved however necessary, puts second things first. As Lewis warned, we’re likely to lose both first things (virtue) & second (elections). 14/x
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I believe he does so because he thinks it will help him win elections, which will empower him to make constructive changes that he thinks (and I often agree) would make our society more just. It’s an “end justifies the means” thing. 6/x
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As Lewis elsewhere put it, “Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first and we lose *both* first and second things.” 10/x
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A “modern-day” monopoly is apparently when four highly efficient firms, none of which holds a majority market share nor has the ability to control market prices on its own, collectively possess a high market share.
A total of 4 companies control a whopping 80% of the entire beef-processing industry. That's a modern-day monopoly.
The winners here? The monopolists - like Tyson Foods. The losers? Farmers & grocery shoppers.
We need more industry competition in America
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I know @HawleyMO to be a good man. We’ve discussed matters of faith, and I truly believe he desires to glorify God by doing the right thing. So why does he say things that he knows are not true and that so harmfully divide people? 5/x
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Which brings me to @firstthingsmag. The name “First Things” refers to a C.S. Lewis essay emphasizing the importance of keeping matters in their proper place, of not overvaluing (admittedly good) things that are of secondary importance to other things. 8/x cslewisinstitute.org/First_a…
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Doing so, Lewis warned, may ironically destroy the value of the second thing that was improperly elevated above the first thing. 9/x
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@firstthingsmag used to understand this. Its founder, Richard John Neuhaus, famously said that “culture is the root of politics and religion is the root of culture.” Get that? Religion (Christian virtue) is the first thing. Culture, and ultimately politics, follow. 13/x
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I’m sad to see @firstthingsmag invert the order of things. I’m even sadder to see a good man, who I truly believe wants to do right, compromise on truth-telling.15/x
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We are in an era of profound economic illiteracy.
Josh Hawley, Bernie Sanders push for 10 percent cap on credit card interest thehill.com/business/5125802…
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Gay guy here. Law prof. Disagree with Vermeule on many points; agree on others. Would cite him when I relied on his work, or perhaps when I disagreed with it. Maybe that demonstrates my “anti-LGBTQ bigotry.” Or maybe it shows I’m a grown-up who can play the ball and not the man.
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I truly don’t understand the New Right’s theory of state power. Classical liberals recognize that the state has a unique and awesome authority—the right to use physical coercion to attain its objectives—and that there should thus be some principled limits on that authority. 🧵
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This is a classic case of the seen and the unseen. FTC will showcase some egregious noncompetes that merit condemnation—the sort it could bring cases against and develop valuable precedent if it chose to act as authorized. It will then extrapolate from those egregious cases…1/3
Over the next couple of weeks, the FTC will share stories about the impact #noncompetes have had on people’s lives around the country. The final rule goes into effect on Sept. 4, 2024. Watch as @linakhanFTC kicks off the series on the life-changing final Noncompetes Rule:
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My amazing law school dean is battling cancer, enduring the hardships of chemo, teaching a class, performing all her decanal duties, remaining pleasant and enthusiastic, and looking fabulous in an assortment of head coverings. MU Law is so fortunate to have her.
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I think Judge Ho is wrong in this dispute. I side with Judge Smith, for whom we both clerked. But the idea that Judge Ho is an antisemite or is somehow signaling antisemitic animus is nuts. He befriended this gay kid back in the 90s and doesn’t have a prejudiced bone in his body.
Judge Ho campaigning hard to be Trump’s or DeSantis’s Supreme Court nominee.
Trumpism corrupts. Judges aren’t exempt from that.
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I’m sorry, but this is just looney talk. The dozens of laws and regulations a person faces every day are coercive. Most of those instances of coercion are probably justified, but coercion it is: the state can lock you in a pen. Businesses, however, can’t use force against you. 1/
“People in their daily lives experience coercion most frequently in the business realm.”
— Lina Khan, music to my ears.
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My precious mama left this world today. She loved like Jesus does, and the greatest privilege of my life was being her son. My heart aches now, but it fills me with joy to think of her hearing the words, “Well done.”
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Walmart is a lifeline for poor people. More than 25% of SNAP dollars were spent there last year. There’s a reason for that: your dollar goes a lot further. It’s nuts to think poor people would be better off with a bunch of mom&pops or smaller chains. winsightgrocerybusiness.com/…
I’m with @jasonfurman here. You get nauseous if you’re allergic to poor people – what happens when the antitrust war on consumers turns sour.
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Enforcing generally applicable time, place, and manner restrictions—regardless of the views of those violating them—is neutral. Choosing not to for some favored groups is not. This isn’t hard.
Dismantling the protest encampment IS taking a side. It’s not a neutral position. It can’t be neutral. Why do people in positions of power pretend that it is or ever can be? Just say you thought this was the best course of action, a much more honest position?
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Regulation by anecdote is unserious and reduces social welfare in the long run. But in this age of populism and celebrity bureaucrats, I fear it is to be expected. Sigh. 3/3
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It’s actually hard to identify a market that is *less* capable of being monopolized than sandwich shops. Maybe lemonade stands?
We don't need another private equity deal that could lead to higher food prices for consumers. The @FTC is right to investigate whether the purchase of @SUBWAY by the same firm that owns @jimmyjohns and @McAlistersDeli creates a sandwich shop monopoly. politico.com/news/2023/11/21…
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If I’m ever appointed to a position in a federal antitrust enforcement agency—and, for the record, I’d be an excellent choice—I promise to decline any invitation to be fawned over by a national media outlet. The desire for celebrity status clouds judgment. And it’s nauseating.
First, we can all agree that this looks like the promo of a kickass Shonda Rhimes show called “Trustbusters”… i would 💯 watch it.
Second, read this great article from @RollingStone on @JusticeATR’s Live Nation-Ticketmaster lawsuit.
rollingstone.com/music/music…
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I’m embarrassed to admit that I’ve never really understood what it means to be gaslit. But after following commentary on Thursday’s debate and the overruling of Chevron, I’m starting to get it.
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I’m not a criminal law or First Amendment expert, but this really troubles me. The state can ruin your life with an unfounded prosecution. The idea that you can’t publicly call out its abuses, especially if you need help financing your defense, is alarming.
My husband’s (@EithanHaim) First Amendment rights may be under attack by a de facto gag order – but mine are not. 🧵1/7
On Dec 3, the judge threatened Eithan with FEDERAL PRISON and his attorneys with sanctions if they continue to post so-called “inflammatory” content on X about the DOJ’s corruption in this case.
He didn’t grant or deny the gag order, but kept the government’s motion “live” pending trial in February. This is arguably worse and serves two purposes.
(1) The court’s instruction to avoid “similar conduct” leaves unclear what kind of speech represents a violation (presumably that which the DOJ doesn’t like? see below) and what the consequences would be – imposition of a gag order merely being one of them.
(2) By leaving the matter undecided, the court is shielded from public criticism and appellate review (where it would likely be overturned as unconstitutional in the Fifth Circuit).
As a result of this “non-gag gag order,” the onus is on the defense to muzzle themselves. It’s an unconstitutional prior restraint of someone who needs free speech the most: the criminal defendant David facing a corrupt government Goliath.
I was not planning on speaking publicly about this case. I’m a private person, and I don’t really use social media. But Eithan’s X posts have been the only way he has been able to raise funds for a legal defense and expose the DOJ’s blatant corruption over the last year and a half.
As a wife and attorney, I can’t sit by while they extinguish the light he’s shone on this case, particularly as newly unsealed evidence proves that this case was malicious all along (more on that later!).
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The CEO of @EpicGames says I’m perverting the term “rent seeking” when I use it to describe his company’s claims against @Apple. Hardly. Allow me to explain. 🧵
This is a gross perversion of the term “rent seeking”. Companies like Apple prevent other stores from competing with their app store, then impose a supracompetitive 30% markup. You’re characterizing firms who just want a chance to compete with them fairly as rent seekers.
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Hey @GeorgetownLaw, this is how it’s done.
Dean G. Marcus Cole issued the following statement about tomorrow's event at Notre Dame Law School in which U.S. Attorney General William Barr will speak to students about religious freedom.
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Two years ago today, my angel mother left this world. She exuded love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (and she had amazing style). I thank God daily that I got to be her son.
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You know what’s really manly? Taking responsibility when you’ve made a huge mistake.
Missouri Sen. Josh Hawley is writing a book titled ‘Manhood: The Masculine Virtues Americans Need.’ Read more: kansascity.com/news/politics…
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to build public support for its absurdly sweeping ban, which the highlighted cases could not justify. There will be no consideration of the unseen: reductions in employer training, refusals to share competitively sensitive info w/ workers, resulting cost increases, etc. 2/3
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On Monday, the Supreme Court will consider whether the target of an @FTC lawsuit may challenge the constitutionality of the agency in court without first enduring an in-house proceeding. So naturally, the FTC chose today to demonstrate how abusive its in-house process can be.🧵
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Maybe Yale Law should rethink its decision not to require the Property course.
Chisato Kimura, a law student at Yale, obviously has no understanding of how the law actually works, as this is not their property — which is a great failure in education: “Anyone who agrees to the community guidelines, which are that we’re committed to Palestinian liberation and fighting for freedom for all oppressed people and that we’re occupying the space to push for Yale to disclose, divest and reinvest in the New Haven community,” Chisato Kimura LAW ’25, a marshal, told the News. “Anyone who agrees to those terms is welcome to pass through, to be here, to enter.”
yaledailynews.com/blog/2024/…
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This is embarrassing. SCOTUS in no way suggested that expert agencies can’t make policy pursuant to a valid delegation of authority. Nor did it add limits on Congress’s power to delegate. It just said that the statute assigning statutory interpretation to courts must be honored.
According to the Supreme Court:
Judges know more about science than scientists.
Judges know more about medicine than doctors.
Judges know more about structural safety than engineers.
Judges know more about climate change than meteorologists.
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These are not “false earnings claims.” When a firm advertises you can earn “up to” some amount, it’s stating the maximum amount you may earn, not the average or expected amount. All non-idiots know that. 1/2
1. Firms that lure workers with false earnings claims are breaking the law.
@FTC has taken action against @Lyft for deceiving drivers about how much they could expect to earn on its platform.
We've ordered Lyft to stop this conduct & pay $2.1 million.
ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
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A Vietnam veteran died Columbia, MO on April 11. No next of kin, so the funeral home invited the public. No one could gather inside, so people just lined the street. I love this town.
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As someone who knows them both well (she was my little sib in law school, he is a friend and was my colleague at Mizzou Law), I am shocked by this. Opposing Neomi Rao for the DC Circuit would be a monumental blunder.
I am astounded @HawleyMO is concerned about the nomination of the brilliant Neomi Rao to the DC Circuit.
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Saw this abhorrent tweet from a professor & ventured a guess about where he taught. I was right.
Parents & prospective students, consider flagship state schools. Most have great & challenging honors colleges. And you’ll be surrounded by profs & classmates with moral compasses.
Today, we mourn the death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, gunned down.... wait, I'm sorry - today we mourn the deaths of the 68,000 Americans who needlessly die each year so that insurance company execs like Brian Thompson can become multimillionaires.
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I taught law with Sen. Hawley, whom I consider a friend despite our disagreements, for several years. We spoke regularly. And yet he never once asked me about antitrust, my main area of scholarship. So odd that a matter so dear to his heart never came up in conversation.
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These people who think an insurer’s denial of coverage justifies assassinating its execs are not only depraved, they’re also clueless. The only way to keep coverage affordable is to deny coverage for unwarranted expenditures. Focusing on only the denials and not their effect…1/4
NEW: Former WaPo reporter Taylor Lorenz doubles down on her comment saying she wants healthcare CEOs de*d.
Lorenz says she is “with the people” who want to execute CEOs.
“I'm gonna say, I'm with the people in the sense that if you have watched a loved one d*e because insurance has denied their lifesaving essential healthcare, it is natural to wish that the people who run those systems would suffer the same fate as your loved one.”
“Am I going to shed tears or have a lot of empathy for somebody that has facilitated the de*ths of thousands of innocent Americans through intentionally denying them coverage? I am not going to weep over it.”
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In all likelihood, this is my darling 78-pound mother’s last Easter. That makes me sad. But because of this day, I am joyful: Oh death, where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory?
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This is unbelievable. @FTC staffers are opposing a request by a group of professors (including me) to file an amicus brief in its administrative challenge to the Illumina/Grail merger.🧵 ftc.gov/system/files/documen…
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An awesome thing about being law prof in Missouri is that your students sometimes invite you to meet their alpacas.
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Wish I’d had as much influence over the antitrust views of my former colleague (@HawleyMO) and former student (@LucasKunceMO) as @matthewstoller has. Gotta give the dude credit for knowing how to sway people. politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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I just walked downstairs to turn off the lights in my family room before bed, and I saw a rubber band on the stairs. Reached down to pick it up, and it was A BABY SNAKE. IN MY HOUSE. Baby snakes have mamas. I may never sleep again.
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Are you a former federal law clerk with an interest in academia? Mizzou Law has a terrific visiting assistant professor program for folks like you. You’d teach one class per semester, get paid way more than most VAPs (thanks to a generous donor!), have lots of time to write, 1/2
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An amazing thing happened to me yesterday, and I feel the need to share it. We were continuing our Scotland adventure on the Isle of Skye. I was dying to do a certain hike on the north of the isle, but we needed to drive back to Edinburgh, and time would be tight. We did the 1/9
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Lots of folks are asking why conservatives don't embrace FTC Chair Lina Khan, who is using her position to constrain progressive Big Tech and the giant corporations that often seem hostile to the right. Perhaps it's b/c Khan's agenda conflicts w/ three pillars of conservatism. 🧵
“Khan’s track record, while not wholly in sync with the conservative movement, is certainly congruous with large parts of it… But with rare populist exceptions, Republicans in Washington absolutely despise her, calling her radical, crazy, and a Marxist.”
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Tomorrow is graduation @MizzouLaw, and I’m kinda a mess. This class has meant so much to me. I was teaching Contracts when Covid rocked our world. Our Wednesday night Zoom office/happy hours kept me sane. What a privilege to watch these students morph into professionals. #Blessed
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For fifteen years, this fella has fallen asleep in my lap every evening while I unwind from the day. Man, am I gonna miss him. What a gift.
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It is myopic or delusional not to worry about how state power will be used in the future.
True conservatives want to conserve the things that really matter, that are crucial for human flourishing. Principled limits on state power is one of those things. 11/
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I love it when people who literally get paid for promoting certain ideas accuse me of being beholden to “my clients.” I teach at an excellent, great-value, but non-elite law school in a flyover state. There are no clients.
What a surprise, the mask comes off and all of a sudden it's 'I love political harassment of FTC staff when they do stuff me and my clients dislike.' You guys spent years pretending you cared about staff and the integrity of an agency. You don't. @profthomlambert @ProfWrightGMU
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I’m excited to present my working paper “Mere Common Ownership and the Antitrust Laws” at @pennlaw today. I’m presenting in front of, and disagreeing with, my hero, Herb Hovenkamp. So I’m nervous as heck!
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I’m having a hard time keeping up. I thought Apple was an indomitable monopolist that can degrade its own product quality to squelch its rivals. Maybe the indignity of green bubbles isn’t all that great.
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This is such a dangerous game. In the name of recapturing “all of the institutions” that the classical liberals purportedly “forfeited,”the new right is forfeiting all of the *principles* that made space for conservatives to order their lives according to their own values. 1/2
The Right is learning new political tactics. We are not going to indulge the fantasies of the "classical liberals" who forfeited all of the institutions. We're going to fight tooth and nail to recapture the regime and entrench our ideas in the public sphere. Get ready.
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Holy crap this is embarrassing. I’ve often defended Google on antitrust matters (and will continue to do so when they’re in the right), but I sure do wish they were a little more sympathetic. So many self-inflicted wounds.
Google Gemini: "I can't write you an argument against #netneutrality. ... I don't want to present a one-sided view."
Also Google Gemini: Here's a one-sided argument in favor of net neutrality!
AI/LLMs should aspire to truth and accuracy. This isn't it.
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Coming of age as a gay, politically conservative Christian in the 1990s meant that most of my close friends strongly disagreed with me on some really important matters. I’m so glad I had that experience.
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“Apple repeatedly chooses to make its products worse for consumers to prevent competition from emerging.”
That is an actual line from DOJ’s new antitrust lawsuit against Apple.
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FTC chair Khan is chafing at (and perhaps misrepresenting) Congress’s efforts to oversee her agency. Her indignation at democratic oversight illustrates an irony I described in my forthcoming J. Corp. L. article: “Neo-Brandeisianism’s Democracy Paradox.”🧵 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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I suspect future generations will be shocked to learn that for a time in America a commission of five unelected citizens who could not be fired for poor policy judgment could sue someone in their own tribunal, and if, against all odds, they lost, appeal that loss to themselves…
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I’m one of the amici impugned in this brief. I have never taken one penny from Google. I teach at a non-elite (but excellent) state school and call things as I see them. The author of this brief, who never reached out to me, should be ashamed of himself for suggesting otherwise.
Love this!
An amicus brief calling out the many amicus briefs in the Epic appeal written by groups that take money from Google (& law firms that frequently represent Google) who hide that fact from court and public in briefs.
(+ need to reform amicus rules generally)
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The Christmas wreath arrived today. A guy in Columbia made this gorgeous thing and delivered it to my house for $200. Smells amazing and is much more cat-friendly than a tree!
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Maybe before trashing his former state, the senator could leave the comfort of Virginia and visit some Missouri communities. I think he’ll find a few that are not drug-ridden hellholes. And he might meet some immigrants who are making our state a better place to live.
What have Missourians reaped from Pres. Biden’s open-border policy?
“Every community in Missouri is awash in drugs. Every school in Missouri has a drug problem.”
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I can 100% guarantee that my friend and former colleague Josh Hawley would not have given this response if a Democratic administration had committed this snafu.
Hawley: This is what the leftist media reduced to. So now we are griping about who is on a text message and who is not. I mean, come on.
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DOJ has filed a bonkers motion in limine in the Google search case. The motion asks the court to bar Google from offering evidence that the conduct the govt has challenged improves Google’s products and is therefore not anticompetitive.🧵 1/14 law360.com/articles/1706696/…
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I’m one of the “conservatives” mentioned in the article. For the record, I have no clients or firm. I teach at a state university in a flyover state, so I rarely get media attention, which frees me to say just what I think. 1/3
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So Epic ultimately used government processes (the courts) in an effort to force a change that would not actually reduce Apple’s market power but would redistribute surplus from less popular app developers to Epic. That’s rent-seeking. END
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To lessen the monotony of grading 170 exams, I’ve take some breaks to see my students’ pets. Yesterday, I met Emily’s famous chinchillas. Today, I hung out with Tate’s freshly shorn alpacas. (I had met the alpacas before, but boy do they look different after a haircut!)
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Not true. Suppose mkt has 5 firms. Firms 4&5 merge to become 2nd largest. Given economies of scale and efficiencies from integration, the merged firm is more efficient and cuts prices. Firms 1 and 3 follow. Firm 4 can’t match & fails. Compet’n has increased tho fewer competitors.
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State power can legitimately protect individuals’ rights to person and property and can force welfare-enhancing outcomes when there’s some systematic defect in private ordering that prevents those outcomes from occurring (e.g., a market failure). 2/
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Absent a threat to individual rights or a systematic, welfare-reducing defect in private ordering (that the state can correct without doing more damage), we classical liberals would let people order their own affairs. Those of us w/ religious convictions could order our lives…4/
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I’m trail-walking with friends tonight, and I hear some dude yelling above me. It’s a balloonist trying to land in this tiny parking lot off the trail. He throws a rope and asks us to tow him away from the trees. We barely make it. Just another day in Columbia MO!
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Few things are as obnoxious as people who know better spouting utter nonsense to win points with low information folks. PPP loans, unlike students loans, were *designed* to be forgiven, as the White House well knows. Gross.
This you?
ALT House Republicans Whose PPP Loans Were Forgiven Congressman Matt Gaetz: $482,321 Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene: $183,504 Congressman Greg Pence: $80,180 Congressman Vern Buchanan: $2,353,167 Congressman Kevin Hern: $1,082,302 Congressman Roger Williams: $1,445,978 Congressman Brett Guthrie: $4,416,574 Congressman Ralph Norman: $616,241 Congressman Mike Kelly: $987,237 Congresswoman Carol Miller: $3,140,471 Congressman Pete Stauber: $86,838 Congressman Andrew Clyde: $156,697 Congressman Pat Fallon: $493,990
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It gave me a certain intellectual humility—a constant awareness that I might be wrong. It also helped me understand that people can be wrong and not bad. It was uncomfortable at the time, but it was a grace in disguise.
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I’m an unmarried gay professor and regularly host student events in my home. It’s, as you say, NBD. I’d hate to teach at a place where having student events at your home is considered inappropriate.
Another thing that is a side note: I find it weird that, like, a married white couple can invite students into their home and it's NBD. But as a single queer male, I would be viewed with great suspicion if I invited students into my home for school functions (which I don't).
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I generally assume the good faith of those with whom I disagree, and I wish others did the same. I’m now putting twitter to bed so I can enjoy my Sunday night with my mate. 3/3
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disagree with each other, but they could live together peaceably.
The New Right envisions far fewer limits on state coercion. They want free rein to constrain people’s economic, personal, and expressive freedoms not simply to protect individual rights & correct mkt failures, 7/
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Great day at the DC Circuit with three of my fantastic @MizzouLaw students! @GAI_GMU puts on a terrific antitrust moot court, and Sam Thomas, @SammyIsSweet, and @AlecG315 rocked it! I feel like a proud papa.
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I’m thrilled to announce that @MizzouLaw students Luke Nutwell, Eric Siemens, & Austin Siener are the champions of @GAI_GMU’s annual moot court competition. What a pleasure to work with these incredible students over the last couple of months. Many thanks…
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Excellent thread. Conservatives who seek to protect their values by pushing to expand government’s power over private entities are playing a dangerous game.
1/15 On 7 February, @Heritage published a report on "Combating Big Tech Totalitarianism". Conservatives in the US think they are standing up to the left, but in fact the two poles are converging into one big illiberal movement with 2 factions separated by cosmetic differences.🧵
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