is it just me, or has @ssrn.bsky.social's bot detection made the site functionally unusable? like, even more so than before in recent days?
Tejas N. Narechania
@tnarecha.bsky.social
Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law. "[A]cademic and informed commentator." Main interests, alphabetically: administrative law; federal courts; intellectual property; Internet & telecom. regulation. Website: http://www.tejasnarechania.net
New Noerr-Pennington fact pattern just dropped... www.nytimes.com/2026/10/10/b...
Justice Dept. Is Investigating TV Networks Over Trump Pool Coverage
Major TV networks were notified on Friday that the department was looking into whether they violated antitrust laws when they suspended pool coverage of President Trump.
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#isthisatrend #orjustvibes Google's Play Store started opening up to rival app stores in the US under a court order stemming from the case lost to Epic. Then, the European Comm fined Google @$1 Bil. "Google lost. And I think that perception will affect juries going forward." - @tnarecha.bsky.social
At least with Bing, Copilot is only obstructively annoying.
And for academic work that proposes exactly this sort of remedy: rate regulations in monopoly-served areas, where the benchmarks are set by reference to competitively-served areas, see, well, me! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... 4/4
Convergence and a Case for Broadband Rate Regulation
There is an important but underappreciated tension between transmission-layer services and application-layer services in the design of prior telecommunications
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In the proposed settlement allowing Charter + Cox to merge, the ISP has agreed to statewide price controls, based on the prices charged in competitive areas. This is a recognition that the merger will reduce competition and features responsive price controls to the threat of monopoly pricing. 2/n
Who's ready for a big deal (broadband) policy update out of California?? 1/n
Who's ready for a big deal (broadband) policy update out of California?? 1/n
In case you missed it, the Trump administration is illegally threatening to withhold billions in already awarded broadband improvement grants from states that attempt ANY regulation of AI or ANY oversight of price-gouging telecom giants
The Trump Administration is Using BEAD Funds as a Cudgel. Is that Legal?
The Trump Administration is threatening to withhold funds from states that lawfully regulate AI and broadband. Those threats are likely unlawful.
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Do you care about the Internet? Read the document that your ISP doesn't want you to see... papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Direct Testimony of Tejas N. Narechania, Joint Application of Charter Communications and Cox Enterprises for Approval Pursuant to California Public Utilities Code Section 854 of the Indirect Transfer ...
The CPUC has authority to condition approval of the proposed transaction on rules that limit the rates charged for broadband Internet access service at monopoly
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Look at Brendan Carr doing all this work to bring about bipartisanship. Everyone thinks he's wrong!
TechFreedom@techfreedom.org · 7mo agoFCC Chair Brendan Carr is weaponizing the “public interest” standard against viewpoints he dislikes. Such jawboning violates the First Amendment, due process, and the rule of law. 75+ civil society groups & free speech experts joined us in this coalition letter 🧵 techfreedom.org/fcc-threats-...
NEWS: The FCC has approved the unlawful Nexstar-TEGNA merger behind closed doors. The consequences of this rubber stamp approval will be felt in living rooms and newsrooms across the country, resulting in fewer voices, less competition, and higher costs for consumers.
can't wait to see the first CVDG
Jimmy Hoover@jimmyhoover.bsky.social · 8mo agoSCOOP: Federal judiciary approves new Supreme Court defender office to help represent indigent defendants at #SCOTUS. Its full-time director will serve as a counterweight to the U.S. solicitor general in federal criminal cases. The first will be former Kagan clerk and SG atty Ashley Robertson.
The FCC is asleep at the wheel on this merger, but watch the @californiapuc.bsky.social. The Public Advocate's Off. is trying to do good. Their testimony is here: docs.cpuc.ca.gov/PublishedDoc... (Disclosure, I'm also a witness in the review. Here's my testimony: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....).
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Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 8mo agoit goes without saying that everything else on this infographic is also a lie. consolidation always harms the market; debt from the deal results in layoffs and stifled deployment and price hikes. Carr is so consistently doing other terrible shit that this stuff flies under the radar.
Outages are not "a fact of life." They are the consequence of a series of technical failures that persist because of market failures that persist because of regulatory failures.
NPR@npr.org · 9mo agoVerizon says a software problem caused the glitch and they are conducting a postmortem, but experts say outages are "a fact of life" these days. n.pr/4b2TXG7
As a scholar focused on the intersection of law and technology, Berkeley Law Professor Tejas N. Narechania has had a front-row seat to profound shifts fostered by Silicon Valley’s innovations. https://bit.ly/4rBOmfX #BerkeleyLaw @tnarecha.bsky.social
Tejas N. Narechania makes the connection between research, policy, and teaching
As each hot new idea or gadget has grabbed funders and headlines — from broadband to AI — Narechania has kept his eye on striking a balance between innovation and accessibility.
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literally two minutes ago... me: yes, kiddo, what's up? 8yo: "well, this is actually more of a comment than a question..." omg 🫠🫠
Jotwell TechLaw: James Grimmelmann, The Edge of Tomorrow, JOTWELL (November 28, 2025) (reviewing Tejas N. Narechania & Scott Shenker, How to Save the Internet, __ Berkeley Tech. L.J. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Mar. 18, 2025)), cyber.jotwell.com/the-edge-of-....
I have a new Jotwell review of Tejas N. Narechania & Scott Shenker's _How to Save the Internet_, a really nice law/CS collaboration on Internet architecture policy. article: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... review: cyber.jotwell.com/the-edge-of-...
The Edge of Tomorrow - Technology Law
Tejas N. Narechania & Scott Shenker, How to Save the Internet, __ Berkeley Tech. L.J. __ (forthcoming), available at SSRN (Mar. 18, 2025).James GrimmelmannEvery time I teach Internet Law, I start by l...
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NFIB v. Sebelius, unconstitutional coercion. Particularly in view of 152(b) and the lack of any federal authority over broadband service regulation.
Karl Bode@karlbode.com · 12mo agoThe Trump administration is promising to block billions in already awarded infrastructure bill broadband grants to any state that tries to enforce net neutrality or impose any sort of price controls on the U.S.' shitty broadband monopolies:
More than any other Court in history, the Roberts Court uses its docket discretion for the purpose of reconsidering and overruling precedent. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Certiorari in Important Cases
The Supreme Court has wide discretion to choose the cases it will decide. But how does the Court exercise this discretion? The Supreme Court’s rules explain tha
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Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · last yr.BREAKING: SCOTUS will hear a case over whether it should overrule Humphrey's Executor — in a shadow docket order that also allows Trump's firing of Rebecca Slaughter as an FTC commissioner to take effect while the appeal is considered, which should not be allowed under Humphrey's Executor.
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 25A264 (25-332)
DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL. U. REBECCA KELLY SLAUGHTER, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION FOR STAY
[September 22, 2025]
The application for stay presented to THE CHIEF JUSTICE and by him referred to the Court is granted. The July 17, 2025 order of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 25-cv-909, ECF Doc. 52, is stayed.
The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari before judgment, and the petition is granted. The parties are directed to brief and argue the following ques-tions: (1) Whether the statutory removal protections for members of the Federal Trade Commission violate the separation of powers and, if so, whether Humphrey's Executor
v. United States, 295 U. S. 602 (1935), should be overruled.
(2) Whether a federal court may prevent a person's removal from public office, either through relief at equity or at law.
The Clerk is directed to establish a briefing schedule that will allow the case to be argued in the December 2025 argument session. The stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of this Court.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiatn7hy67rd6co3ichuyzatyrlbh6wvclmhfzv25lsb3tgntp2z54)
The Federal Communications Bar Association has an annual dinner, where, by tradition, the FCC Chair gives a speech. Is Jimmy Kimmel available to emcee the event? The FCBA should seriously consider it.
Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.
I wrote a little bit about how California proposed a law making broadband affordable for poor people. And how telecom lobbyists have already destroyed the effort:
California Proposed A Law Making Broadband Affordable For Poor People. Telecom Lobbyists Have Already Destroyed It.
Last January, Democratic California Assemblymember Tasha Boerner introduced the California Affordable Home Internet Act (AB 353), which mandated that large ISPs in the state needed to provide broad…
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UC Berkeley Law Professor Tejas Narechania (@tnarecha.bsky.social) weighed in on CA's effort to regulate streaming services, saying it can attempt to enact “consumer protections aimed at California residents, even if they affected out-of-state content providers.” calmatters.org/newsletter/c...
Big changes unfolding for CA housing
Between an increasingly influential union and a new state housing agency, one of California’s biggest crises is getting a shakeup.
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