Tim Wu
@superwuster.bsky.social
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Professor Columbia University & contributing opinion writer for the NY Times. Author of "The Curse of Bigness," "The Attention Merchants" Forthcoming book: THE AGE OF EXTRACTION (the rise of the platforms) (Nov 2025)

Timothy Shiou-Ming Wu is a Taiwanese-American legal scholar who served as Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy at the United States from 2021 to 2023. He is also a professor of law at Columbia University and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He is known legally and academically for significant contributions to antitrust and communications policy, coining the phrase "network neutrality" in his 2003 law journal article, Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination. In the late 2010s, Wu was a leading advocate for an antitrust lawsuit directed at the breakup of Facebook. .. more

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I used to work in the NY AG's office. The federal indictment of Letitia James is disgusting and embarrassing. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Las Vegas is a microcosm of the broader US economy. Mergers have led to duopoly/oligopoly. A corporate extraction imperative leads to price hikes where hotels / casinos to target big spenders. Short-term profit but longterm cost to the broader ecosystem
nytimes.com/2025/10/01/t...
What’s Wrong With Las Vegas?
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Business has long depended on emotional attachment as strategy to create switching costs. (E.g., Cadillac). Seems utterly obvious that despite their ethical commitments, the intentional engineering of AIs to generate human emotional attachment will soon be mainstream.

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If the shutdown yields nothing, when health insurance premiums soar as projected, who do Republicans think Americans will blame? Obama?

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Finalized my 2025 book tour!

Coming through New York, DC, Chicago, Toronto, San Francisco, Los Angeles, London, Oxford and Cambridge. Click here for details:
timwu.net#booktour

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For my new book, THE AGE OF EXTRACTION, here is the UK cover and the USA cover. Curious which people prefer.

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From last week's meeting of winning progressive campaigns in UK/Canada/Australia

- Left-leaning parties need tap into national pride, specifically concerning healthcare or threats to economic wellbeing;

- Focus on affordability and economics essential; must resist distractions.

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It is weird and not healthy to begin every day wondering:

"What outrageous thing will the U.S. government do today? Will it be unethical, unconstitutional, or all of the above?"