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Ullyot: The incoming Republican-led FCC will massively modify net neutrality rules
“So it's been a Democrat commission, Democrat-dominated, three-two commission, and now it's going to flip and be three-two Republican, and the FCC series of Rules about net neutrality will, at minimum, be massively modified by the incoming administration.”
Ullyot: Federal deregulation will shift tech policy authority to state governments
“On balance, there'll be fewer instances in which a federal regulation preempts to set aside and overrule a state law or to obviate the need for a state law. So you'll have more opportunities for state legislatures and governors, just state governments generall…”
Ullyot: Corporate tax repatriation will drive tech M&A and R&D
“Laws will be changed to allow that money to be repatriated at lower tax rates. It'll be attractive to, for American companies to bring that money back. And one potential outcome of that is a very good thing for tech in particular, which would be a lot of, Larg…”
Ullyot: U.S. trade restrictions will hit physical goods, not software
“I think most of the impact as I see it of the trade talk would be on physical goods rather than software, especially when it's delivered no longer by, you know, long, long ago, you know, when it was, you could stop a shipment of discs at the border. That was o…”