Jun 24, 20266 min readRegulators must catch up to the personalized health revolutionIs shining a red light device on your testicles the best way to boost testosterone? What about injecting BPC-157 to heal a shoulder injury or speed up your mitochondria? One in three Americans now use …Consumer Choice Center
Jun 10, 202610 min readLiberal Democracies Dominated Early Open-Source AI – Now China is WinningPull up any global leaderboard for open-source AI today and read the names: Qwen, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM. They are not from Silicon Valley, the United States, or even a liberal democratic nation with a …Consumer Choice Center
Jun 5, 20267 min readCanada’s “AI for All” Plan Means AI Approved by OttawaCanada’s new national AI strategy is called “AI for All.” If we’re being literal, it should be called “AI Approved by Ottawa.” Released this week by Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital …Consumer Choice Center
May 27, 20268 min readPope Leo, open source tech champion?Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, offers a myriad of moral lessons that speak directly to our modern informational and technological age. It’s a rigorous attempt to apply church …Consumer Choice Center
May 18, 20267 min readTime to clip the wings of the car crash lawyersImagine renting a U-Haul to move your stuff cross-country after accepting your dream job. After the stress of the move, the awful packing of boxes, and rolling down the highway, you end up in a fender …Consumer Choice Center
Mar 17, 20265 min readBanned, Delayed, or Just Broken? Australia’s Youth Social Media Mess Turns 100 Days OldOne hundred days into Australia’s social media ban for under-16s, and the evidence is already mounting that it has failed. When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese signed the Online Safety Amendment Act …Consumer Choice Center
Mar 10, 20264 min readDerailing a huge railway merger will cost American consumers dearlyEarlier this year, the federal government rejected a merger plan to build America’s first transcontinental railroad. A refusal wasn’t issued because the deal is bad for consumers, rather, it didn’t …Consumer Choice Center
Mar 3, 20265 min readWorried about AI Surveillance? Obliterate the Third-Party DoctrineThe showdown between the Department of War (Defense) and Anthropic over a government contract reveals a lot about American society’s relationship with technology and its governing institutions. For …Consumer Choice Center
Feb 16, 20266 min readHave regulations ruined ride-hailing?Regulations ruined ride-hailing, Vienna edition. Since 2021 in Austria, all ride-sharing, ride-hailing, and “digital dispatch” apps (services like Uber and Bolt) are regulated as taxi services. For …Consumer Choice Center
Oct 21, 20257 min readIf you want fewer Internet outages, more data centers!The US-east-1 outage of October 20th, 2025 explains why we need yet more data centers and energy capacity. Yesterday, Internet users in the US and abroad awoke to some kind of errors and issues when …Consumer Choice Center
Oct 9, 20254 min readThe Aussie experiment with ‘online safety’ is going about as well as you would expectThe Australian eSafety Commissioner is using the Online Safety Act to force online platforms to take down certain videos, or else. The Anglosphere is in the midst of yet another drawn-out battle …Consumer Choice Center
Oct 2, 20255 min readThe Shutdown's 800-pound Gorilla: Healthcare is political because the federal government dominates itLike a broken clock, a reboot of a superhero movie, or a rehabilitation of Charlie Sheen, Americans faced with yet another shutdown of the federal government. With funding that expired on September …Consumer Choice Center
Jul 30, 20255 min readThe direct primary care reform that may supercharge healthcare competition and patient choiceNudged within the “One Big Beautiful Bill” is a small tax provision that may only apply to a small number of consumers, but it could have outlasting positive impacts on how healthcare …Consumer Choice Center
May 23, 20256 min readThe government’s weak case to "break off" InstagramFor the last five weeks, an agency of the Federal government has attempted to convince a judge that Meta should be forcibly broken up for parts. FTC v. Meta is nearing closing statements and could be …Consumer Choice Center
May 16, 20257 min readThe FTC’s shell game on social media ‘monopolies’In Washington, D.C. this week, government lawyers wrapped up their antitrust lawsuit arguing that Instagram should be broken off from its parent company. The same for WhatsApp. The company Meta, …Consumer Choice Center
Mar 12, 20253 min readCongress set to neuter its authority to counter Trump tariffsAs Congress debates yet another Continuing Resolution to hastily fund the federal government for a few months, the House yesterday passed a resolution that mixes together several bills. Tucked within …Consumer Choice Center
Nov 18, 20242 min readOops, your data's been exposed. What can you do?This week, I received a letter from an employer of mine from when I was in high school, a local car wash. It turns out there was a “data breach” that resulted in “unauthorized access” to my social …Consumer Choice Center
Nov 5, 20248 min readOpen-source is for everyone, even your adversariesLast week, an investigation by Reuters revealed that Chinese researchers have been using open-source AI tools to build nefarious-sounding models that may have some military application. The reporting …Consumer Choice Center
Sep 6, 20243 min readFCC Comments to protect radio frequency for open-source projects and ham radioThis week, the Consumer Choice Center submitted comments to the Federal Communications Commission on its proposal to reconfigure parts of the 900 MHz band, opposing the effort that would end up …Consumer Choice Center
Mar 6, 20242 min readForcing TikTok’s divestiture from the CCP is both reasonable and necessaryWashington, D.C. – Yesterday, a bipartisan group of US House legislators introduced a bill that would force ByteDance Ltd. to sell its US version of TikTok or face massive fines and federal …Consumer Choice Center
