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Downing on Bargaining with the Brussels Effect
Brian Downing (University of Mississippi - School of Law) has posted Bargaining with the Brussels Effect, 29 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. ___ (2026) on SSRN. Here is the abstract: The U.S. lightly regulates digital platforms’ policies. Policies include what personal data appears in search results or which comments show up on social networks. U.S. scholars, judges, and some government officials make arguments to justify this hands-off approach in the vein of: “whatever you think of these technology companies, it is better that private actors manage their services rather than the government.”
