Consumer Choice Center

Every decision is a choice.
You deserve the freedom to make yours.
Your voice. Your choice. Our fight.

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

Around the world, consumer choice is under pressure. New rules, new bans, new limits — shaping what we buy, what we use, and how we live. But consumers deserve better.

Consumer Choice Center — an independent, non-partisan global advocacy group. We champion freedom of choice, innovation, and abundance in everyday life.

We use research, data, storytelling, and on-the-ground activism to make sure your voice is heard in parliaments, in the media, online, and on the streets. Across every continent, we are there where decisions are made.

We empower people everywhere to speak up, stand up, and demand better.
Tens of thousands of members. Dozens of campaigns.
Because Your Choice is Our Fight.

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

Virginia, Texas, and Oregon host the most US data centers. Households there pay 15.4 to 16.8 cents per kWh. California pays 33. Check out our new interactive map of 1,715 sites: https://t.co/tjzlqJXgCT

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

Minneapolis wanted a human in the driver's seat of every robotaxi. The council's bid to override Mayor Frey's veto fell two votes short. @JamesCz19 in the Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder on what AVs bring consumers: https://t.co/d54grBE9NY

[David Clement 🌐 @davidclement]

Waymo announcing expansion to Toronto is a good thing. Why? I explain here with @SkubicTheresa

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

@YaelOss and @davidclement followed the money. What they found is one machine with two products, and it won’t stop at pints and prompts.

There’s a lot more in the report that’ll surprise you.👇️ https://t.co/s1CrTHzInK

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

What do higher alcohol taxes and AI regulation have in common?

The same people are paying for both. And once you see who, you can’t unsee it 🧵

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

From pints to AI prompts, it’s one machine with two products.

Fund the research, call it neutral science, turn it into law. You pay at the checkout.

And open-source AI is next on the list.

[Fabio @EgoSumFabio]

1/ Data centers are getting blamed for rising electricity prices. So we mapped all 1,715 sites we could find and compared each state with what households pay. 🧵

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

Up to seven hours in the chair by IV. Three to five minutes as an injection. A CMS rule due this fall decides whether upgrades like that keep getting built. @FredCyrusRoeder on who pays for the answer:
https://t.co/xtKqVmWl9r

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

A prediction contract and a sportsbook wager can ride on the same final score. Who sets the price, who carries the risk, and who gets paid can still differ. @davidclement in @MansfieldNJ https://t.co/RklemBIoDm

[Jay Goldberg @JayJGoldberg]

Annoyed by Trump's insults? You should be.

But is it worth walking away from the USMCA, which a new report says would cost Canadians 100,000 jobs next year alone should that occur? Definitely not.

Free trade is worth saving.

Read more here 👇

@ConsumerChoiceC

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[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

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[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

Ottawa calls Trump’s tariffs a tax paid for by Americans. Then it brought the same tax home.

So who really pays when two governments match bad policy with more bad policy?

Canada can’t brace for Trump’s storm by making it bigger.

Read David’s full piece: https://t.co/9u5qn5vz5j

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

So who really pays when two governments match bad policy with more bad policy?

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

Matching bad policy with a homemade version doesn’t protect anyone. It just makes the economic hardship worse.

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[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

Legal sports betting volume is up more than 3,000% since 2018. Problem gambling rates are flat, back at 2018 baselines. @davidclement on a reported FTC look at sportsbooks, nobody has confirmed: https://t.co/lSlyJnjp6g

[Stephen Kent @StephenKentX]

As @davidclement says, the report in the @washingtonsun suggesting an FTC investigation into the sportsbooks is underway bears the hallmarks of wishcasting PR—meant to encourage, not confirm a probe. Just sayin.

https://t.co/Qv0TdsAsbM

[Consumer Choice Center @ConsumerChoiceC]

The NFL wants the Supreme Court to treat a Kalshi contract like a DraftKings bet. In August, the league dropped DraftKings and FanDuel as betting partners.

@StephenKentX in the @dcexaminer https://t.co/MwyNjvSv3Z

[Yaël Ossowski⚜️ @YaelOss]

NEW: What does *Effective Altruism* have to do with a centuries-old teetotaler temperance group and a global battle to constrain access to AI technology?

This is the story of how a well-intended, evidence-minded philanthropy took a detour into sprawling funding and influence campaigns to restrict people and technology, and the people who bankroll it all.

These are the neoprohibitionists.

A new paper by @ConsumerChoiceC 👇