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About F. E. Guerra-Pujol

When I’m not blogging, I am a business law professor at the University of Central Florida.

The Peoples of Iran

Accurate ethnic map of iran by inMapPorn

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PSA: Beware Big Tech

The notification pictured below popped up in my Twitter feed yesterday: Really? Who the Hell are these “experts”? Alas, the claim contained in this notification is false! While some liberal legal scholars might agree with this claim, conservative legal scholars, … Continue reading

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Merry Michaelmas!

Originally posted on prior probability:
Yes, today (9/29) is the Catholic feast day of Michaelmas! More details about the meaning and history of Michaelmas can be found here and here. prior probability View original post

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Lemley on data security and hacker threats

Note: this is post #4 of a multi-part series. Thus far, we have seen how proposals to reform “Section 230 Immunity” or to regulate the Internet advertising market are either contradictory or likely to backfire (see here re: § 230 … Continue reading

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Twitter Tuesday: @threadapalooza

I am interrupting my review of Mark Lemley’s excellent paper on “The contradictions of platform regulation” to introduce you to @threadapalooza (see screenshot below), which contains an impressive collection of 100-Tweet mega-threads, and to @ZoharAtkins, a poet, thinker, and rabbi, … Continue reading

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Google and Facebook dominate the ad market; so what?

Note: This is post #3 in a multi-part series. Another embarrassing contradiction identified by Mark Lemley in Part 1 of his excellent new paper on “The Contradictions of Platform Regulation” involves the use of antitrust law to police or regulate … Continue reading

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Lemley on the Politics of Section 230 Reform

Note: this is post #2 in a multi-part series. Mark Lemley begins Part 1 of his Internet platform paper with the following observation (p. 305, emphasis added): “Everyone wants [to regulate] tech companies …. But dig a little deeper, and … Continue reading

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Two cheers for Mark Lemley

This is the first blog post in a multi-part series. Has the time come to regulate the Internet or to break up the big tech companies into smaller firms? In the introduction to his excellent paper “The contradictions of platform … Continue reading

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Taxonomy of U.S. road sign designs

Check out this report by Kurt Kohlstedt titled “American Highways 101: Visual Guide to U.S. Road Sign Designs & Numbering Systems”.

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Sunday Syllabus: Thinking about Abortion

Stephen E. Sachs, a professor at the Harvard Law School, is leading a discussion group for 1Ls on the law and ethics of abortion. This informal discussion group meets four times during the fall semester, and here is a link … Continue reading

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