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Troubling Content Quotas Down Under

The Australian Content Requirements for Subscription Video on Demand Bill 2025 (ACO Bill), introduced earlier this month in the Parliament of Australia, would require large video-streaming platforms to spend either 10% of their Australian expenditures or 7.5% of their Australian revenues on locally produced original programs. While framed as a cultural measure, the bill functions Troubling Content Quotas Down Under

Digital Sovereignty: Sound Policy or Another European Luxury Belief?

In what may be the perfect expression of Europe’s current strategic priorities, the European Union will convene a “Summit on European Digital Sovereignty” tomorrow in Berlin. The choice to hold a “digital sovereignty” summit, rather than a “competitiveness” summit or a “technology of tomorrow summit,” arguably says a great deal.  Alas, this notion that the Digital Sovereignty: Sound Policy or Another European Luxury Belief?

The Many Tradeoffs of Trump’s ‘Fat Shot’ Deal

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump announced deals with drugmakers to reduce prices and expand access to GLP-1 weight-loss drugs like Ozempic, Zepbound, and Wegovy. Originally developed to help diabetics manage their blood sugar, the drugs mimic the natural hormone glucagone-like-peptide-1 (GLP-1). GLP-1s trigger the pancreas to release insulin at times of high blood-sugar levels, The Many Tradeoffs of Trump’s ‘Fat Shot’ Deal

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