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, ce 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.

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Italy is on the right path on housing.

Instead of rent caps, Rome’s 2027 budget cuts the tax on long-term lets from 10% to 5%, and to 1% for tenants under 35. More homes for rent, not fewer.

Read here: consumerchoicecenter.org/italy-is-on-th…

A study of more than 1.3 million discharges from 343 hospitals found bargaining power explains more of the price gap than local concentration. The FTC is still chasing size. @EmilPanzaru in @RealClearHealth

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Utah filed 14 criminal charges against Kalshi and its founders over 12 sports contracts an undercover investigator bought for $114. The CFTC had sued Utah the day before. @YaelOss wrote for CCC consumerchoicecenter.org/utahs-felony-c…

.@YaelOss: "Utah can set whatever gambling laws it wants, but charging two prediction market founders with felonies over $114 in trades placed by the state’s own undercover agent isn’t law enforcement, it’s prohibition by indictment and an outrage."

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CMS finalizes its Medicare negotiation rule this fall. If one price covers a drug and its better version, the next better version gets harder to fund. @FredCyrusRoeder on the loop:
consumerchoicecenter.org/a-cms-rule-tha…

More from our team on drug pricing:
@FredCyrusRoeder in the @dcexaminer on what actually pushed drug prices down: washingtonexaminer.com/op-eds/4696900…

🇫🇷 @wirtzbill in @LaTribune on who really underpays for medicine: latribune.fr/article/idees/…

Everyone’s talking about making AI safe. Almost nobody’s asking who’s paying for that conversation.

In AI, the people warning you to be afraid are the same people profiting from the rules. 🧵

The same donors funding the AI safety movement also back the biggest labs, the ones who can afford the rules that lock everyone else out. Fund the fear, bankroll the giants.

The rules don’t stop AI. They just shut out open-source and the small startups, the tools that let people ms.

So let’s be honest. The same money warns you about AI and sits on both sides of the rules.

Fund the fear, invest in the giants who can afford the regulation. That’s not a conflict by accident. Open-source AI is the first to go.

@YaelOss and @davidclement followed the money. What they found connects your AI tools to a 175-year-old alcohol temperance group, and it’s all one machine.

There’s a lot more in the report that’ll surprise you! Take a look:
consumerchoicecenter.org/how-neoprohibi…

Nine groups calling themselves "non-governmental" drew €12.8 million in public funding. More than 95% came from the European Commission. @wirtzbill in @Contrepoints on Brussels funding the lobbying that it hears: contrepoints.org/le-n-dans-ong-…

New dosing work, new production lines, new safety testing. That is what an injectable upgrade costs before FDA approval. Under @CMSGov proposal, it would share the original drug’s Medicare price. Fewer upgrades break even. @FredCyrusRoeder consumerchoicecenter.org/a-cms-rule-tha…

In two years, Uber and Lyft's cut of each San Francisco fare fell from $3.10 to $1.64. Drivers' earnings rose 16%. The average fare held at $16.95. @davidclement and @JamesCz19 on robotaxi competition: consumerchoicecenter.org/plot-twist-aut…

Some of the sharpest minds in health economics, in one room in London.
Our academic symposium at @KCL asked one question: what is going wrong in US healthcare? @FredCyrusRoeder summarized for you!

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: consumerchoicecenter.org/mapping-americ…

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: spokesman-recorder.com/2026/10/19/min…

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

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 🧵

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.

@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.👇️ consumerchoicecenter.org/how-neoprohibi…