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Two net neutrality events following oral argument in Verizon v FCC on Monday
On Monday the DC Circuit hears oral argument in Verizon v. FCC – the case challenging the FCC’s Open Internet Order. Following the oral argument I’ll be participating in two events discussing the...
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Mark Schultz on the Mercatus Center’s Unhelpful Business Advice for the...
Over at the Center for the Protection of Intellectual Property (CPIP), Mark Schultz has an important blog posting on the Mercatus Center‘s recent launch of its new copyright piracy website,...
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Don’t tread on my Internet
Ben Sperry and I have a long piece on net neutrality in the latest issue of Reason Magazine entitled, “How to Break the Internet.” It’s part of a special collection of articles and videos dedicated to...
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New Heritage Foundation Publication on Saving Internet Freedom
Yesterday the Heritage Foundation released a series of essays on “Saving Internet Freedom.” These analytical essays are an excellent reference work for interested members of the public who seek...
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Copyright and the Internet: Getting the Balance Right
Yesterday my essay on this topic was published as part of a Heritage Foundation Special Report on Saving Internet Freedom. The essay reviews threats to copyrighted works posed by the Internet and...
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Curbing Internet Copyright Infringement
In my article published today in The Daily Signal, I delve into the difficulties of curbing Internet-related copyright infringement. The key points are summarized below. U.S. industries that rely on...
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Don’t wanna brag or nothin, but critics have been right about net neutrality...
Remember when net neutrality wasn’t going to involve rate regulation and it was crazy to say that it would? Or that it wouldn’t lead to regulation of edge providers? Or that it was only about the last...
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Online Privacy Regulation: A Tale of Two U.S. Agencies (and Some Foreign...
In recent years much ink has been spilled on the problem of online privacy breaches, involving the unauthorized use of personal information transmitted over the Internet. Internet privacy concerns are...
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FCC Chairman Wheeler’s claimed fealty to FTC privacy standards is belied by...
Next week the FCC is slated to vote on the second iteration of Chairman Wheeler’s proposed broadband privacy rules. Of course, as has become all too common, none of us outside the Commission has...
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Reconfirming Jessica Rosenwercel as an FCC Commissioner Would Undermine...
The Senate should not reconfirm Jessica Rosenworcel to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), in order to allow the Trump Administration to usher in needed reforms in the critical area of...
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The Internet Conduct Rule Must Die
It’s fitting that FCC Chairman Ajit Pai recently compared his predecessor’s jettisoning of the FCC’s light touch framework for Internet access regulation without hard evidence to the Oklahoma City...
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Portugal Isn’t a Horseman of the Net Neutrality Apocalypse
Unexpectedly, on the day that the white copy of the upcoming repeal of the 2015 Open Internet Order was published, a mobile operator in Portugal with about 7.5 million subscribers is garnering a lot of...
View ArticleSoylent Analytica: The Graph is too Damn Open
The world discovered something this past weekend that the world had already known: that what you say on the Internet stays on the Internet, spread intractably and untraceably through the tendrils of...
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Weekend reads
Good government dies in the darkness. This article is getting a lot of attention on Wonk Twitter and what’s left of the blogosphere. From the abstract: We examine the effect of local newspaper closures...
View ArticleAOL/Time Warner merger conditions are a template for disastrous tech policy
Senator Mark Warner has proposed 20 policy prescriptions for bringing “big tech” to heel. The proposals — which run the gamut from policing foreign advertising on social networks to regulating feared...
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Why Restoring Internet Freedom Was a Landmark Accomplishment
[TOTM: The following is part of a digital symposium by TOTM guests and authors on the legal and regulatory issues that arose during Ajit Pai’s tenure as chairman of the Federal Communications...
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How Chairman Pai Restored the FCC’s Independence
[TOTM: The following is part of a digital symposium by TOTM guests and authors on the legal and regulatory issues that arose during Ajit Pai’s tenure as chairman of the Federal Communications...
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Ajit Pai and Risk-Taking at the FCC
[TOTM: The following is part of a digital symposium by TOTM guests and authors on the legal and regulatory issues that arose during Ajit Pai’s tenure as chairman of the Federal Communications...
View ArticleWhy the Canadian Supreme Court’s Equustek decision is a good thing for...
I recently published a piece in the Hill welcoming the Canadian Supreme Court’s decision in Google v. Equustek. In this post I expand (at length) upon my assessment of the case. In its decision, the...
View ArticleThe Washington Post editorial board understands online competition better...
Last week the editorial board of the Washington Post penned an excellent editorial responding to the European Commission’s announcement of its decision in its Google Shopping investigation. Here’s the...
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