Ryan Radia, Associate Director of Technology Studies at Competitive Enterprise Institute

Ryan Radia

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As associate director of technology studies, Ryan Radia focuses on adapting law and public policy to the unique challenges of the information age. His research areas include information privacy, intellectual property, electronic speech, competition policy, telecommunications, media regulation, and Internet freedom.

Radia has published articles in major newspapers and online outlets including Ars Technica, The Seattle Times, Advertising Age, San Jose Mercury News, Forbes, The Star-Ledger, Multichannel News, The Orange County Register, Hartford Courant, and The Des Moines Register. He has been quoted in media outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, The Boston Globe, POLITICO, The Baltimore Sun, Investor’s Business Daily, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, CNET News, MSNBC.com, and PC Magazine. He has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs, including Marketplace on National Public Radio, Cavuto on Fox Business Network, and the Laura Ingraham Show on Talk Radio Network.

Radia blogs on the Technology Liberation Front, a group technology policy blog dedicated to advancing freedom and liberty in the digital age. His commentary has been referenced by major blogs including Slate, The Atlantic’s Daily Dish, The Washington Post’s Faster Forward, Reason Magazine’s Hit & Run, Techdirt, and Broadband Reports.

Radia earned his undergraduate degree in economics from Northwestern University and is a J.D. candidate at the George Washington University Law School. Prior to joining CEI in 2007, he worked in the alternative risk financing sector.

Content featuring Ryan Radia

Feds Should Stay Out of Google/Twitter Social Search Spat

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Berin Szoka, Geoffrey Manne, Ryan Radia
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January 12, 2012
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As has become customary with just about every new product announcement by Google these days, the company’s introduction on Tuesday of its new “Search, plus Your World" (SPYW) program, which aims to incorporate a user’s Google+ content into her organic search results, has met with cries of antitrust foul play. All the usual blustering and speculation in the latest Google antitrust debate has obscured what should, however, be the two key prior questions: (1) Did Google violate the antitrust laws by not including data from Facebook, Twitter and other social networks in its new SPYW program alongside Google+ content; and (2) How might antitrust restrain Google in conditioning participation in this program in the future?

The answer to the first is a clear no. The second is more complicated—but also purely speculative at this point, especially because it's not even clear Facebook and Twitter really want to be included or what their price and conditions for doing so would be. So in short, it's hard to see what there is to argue about yet.

Let's consider both questions in turn.

Should Google Have Included Other Services Prior to SPYW's Launch?

Google says it's happy to add non-Google content to SPYW but, as Google fellow Amit Singhal told Danny Sullivan, a leading search engine journalist:

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