Agreement with the ftc for violating childrens privacy on youtube. Critics say its not enough. And slack john. Stock shares plunge after the companys first earnings reports since its trading debut. At issue, Service Problems and competition from microsoft. This week china and the , u. S. Announce that facetoface negotiations aimed at ending their tariff war will be held in washington next month. Skepticism on both sides for true progress remains high. This, of course, follows president trumps 15 tariff that became a reality last sunday. Dragging apple further into the trade war. While its flagship iphone is spared, some key products are not namely, apples pods, apple , watch. A Senior Research analyst joined us to discuss on before the tuesday latest round of talks were announced. Apple, like you pointed out, is kind of the clear one. Any company that has manufacturing in china is there but what is maybe potentially more interesting than that is that its starting to spill over into oth
That share of votes i make. Host and the vote the federal Communications Commission negated the obama era net brutality rules governing Internet Service providers. In this edition of the committee getters we will look at arguments on each side of the issue at the potential effects moving forward. Brian fung of the washington post, in your late story this morning you write that this vote will allow internet providers to speed up service from websites they favor and block or slowed and others. Is it that, or is it the regulatory light touch that chairman pai talked about . Guest its both indepth the fcc just decide to rollback rules that were implemented as you said in 2015, and in doing so the fcc will return to a regulatory structure that they argue serves the internet well for decades and represents a light touch on industry. That same approach will potentially allow internet providers to speed up some websites, slowdown others. Even if they decide not to do that right away its concei
Now to a Panel Discussion on to state and licensing requirements or Service Industry jobs such as cosmetology. Labor secretary says lawmakers should work to get rid of unnecessary state licenses. This Panel Discussion is on our is it one hour. Unhappy to see some familiar faces in the audience and for those who dont know me my name is trying to koren wongervin. I also teach antitrust and intellectual property law. I will pause for a minute. We also have people joining us online. Again, to everyone in the room, welcome and thank you for coming. Its a privilege to be here today in my capacity as cochair along with josh writes of the antitrust and Consumer Protection working group of the fried the list society project. This project was launched in 2016 to foster a National Conversation around the issue of revelatory access end of the harms it causes. Of the project consists of 12 working groups, each composed of experts with specific fields of regulatory line policy ranging from environme
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It and enforcement ornt agency. Our rules allow us to have a quorum, so that is not affecting our work, but we have to Reach Agreement to take action. Fortunately, most of the work the ftc does is very much focused on real harm to consumers, fraud. Those are areas where there is a lot of agreement. Other thing happening under my leadership, i have asked staff to take a look at the things we are doing that maybe need to be better focused, or perhaps have a more limited impact on business, had we . Efine harm sufficiently are using our resources to the best advantage for the American Public . I believe staff is very supportive of that. We are moving ahead. Peter we invited you to talk ftct Telecom Policy and the. What is the dividing line between what the fcc regulates ftcwhat, perhaps, the regulates . Ms. Ohlhausen the dividing line now is different than it was before 2014. Forfcc has authority practices affecting commerce, but we dont have authority over common carriers, and that goes