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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
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?
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