Jessica Melugin

4 weeks ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Jessica Melugin

The massive domestic policy bill that recently passed the House includes a proposed 10-year ban on state and local government regulation of artificial intelligence. It’s notable in a bill aimed more broadly at lowering tax rates and imposing new immigration restrictions. However, its legislative future is unclear since Senate Republicans have promised a dramatic rewrite of the proposal, a cornerstone of President Donald Trump‘s domestic agenda in his second term.

4 weeks ago | cei.org | Jessica Melugin |Ryan Smith

The movement in the Biden and Trump administrations of antitrust officials away from consumer welfare and towards a federal judiciary of active regulation is on full display in the Google search trial. The remedies sought by the current Department of Justice (DOJ) are an unprecedented and unwise ceding of critical business decisions to unelected officials and the judiciary. If imposed, users’ privacy may take the biggest hit.

1 month ago | cei.org | Jessica Melugin

The joy of federal preemption may soon be upon us. The House Energy and Commerce Committee included a ten-year moratorium on state AI regulation in its latest budget reconciliation text. If the provision survives, it will be much-needed boon to US efforts to beat China in the race for AI dominance and a welcome assertion of constitutional congressional power. There are currently approximately 1000 bills enacted or pending in states across the country.

2 months ago | washingtonexaminer.com | Jessica Melugin

Nearly five years after it was first announced, the Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust case against Meta is underway in a District of Columbia courtroom. Widely considered the weakest of the so-called “Big Tech” cases brought by the federal government, a rapidly changing tech landscape may make for an even steeper climb to victory by the FTC.

2 months ago | cei.org | Jessica Melugin

The sixth episode of Otherwise Objectionable, the narrative-driven podcast that tells the true story of Section 230 of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, focuses on how the rest of the world handles thorny content moderation decisions. NARRATOR: Chander has written some of the most comprehensive studies on global attempts to regulate the Internet. ANUPAM CHANDER: I describe the rise of Silicon Valley and the way that the rest of the world kind of hampered their own innovation.