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How Apple’s walled garden protects ICE

Hello and welcome to Regulator. Of all the strange, unintended consequences stemming from major lawsuits, I never thought that the Trump administration’s power to force Apple to remove ICE-tracking mobile apps from its stores could have been connected to a legal battle over Fortnite V-Bucks. Yes, we are talking about the in-game digital currency that…

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TikTok, #freedom edition | The Verge

Hello and welcome to Regulator. Today is the last day of The Verge’s very good subscription sale: $4 for a month and $35 for the year, for full access to the entire site. Don’t delay! When we launched Regulator two months ago, the premise was that I’d write about the collision between Big Tech and…

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