Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast

That’s the question I have after the latest episode of the Cyberlaw Podcast. Jeffery Atik lays out the government’s best case: that it artificially bolstered its dominance in search by paying to be the default search engine everywhere. That’s not exactly an unassailable case, at least in my view, and the government doesn’t inspire confidence when it starts out of the box by suggesting it lacks evidence because Google did such a good job of suppressing “bad” internal corporate messages. Plus, if paying for defaults is bad, what’s the remedy–not paying for them? Assigning default search engines at random? That would set trust-busting back a generation with consumers.  There are still lots of turns to the litigation, but the Justice Department has some work to do. The other big story of the week was the opening of Schumer University on the Hill, with closed-door Socratic tutorials on AI policy issues for legislators. Sultan Meghji suspects that, for all the kumbaya moments, agreement on a legislative solution