Apple Corp. last night announced that it is implementing a new security protocol that will make it impossible for the firm to turn over users’ personal information to government agencies, or anyone else. This is great news for users of Apple products, and one hopes that the other major phone and tablet operating system providers—notably, Google and Microsoft—will quickly follow suit.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Liberty · Regulation
The growing use of Uber to hail a cab is economic dynamism at its finest: an unregulated Internet service upending an old, established service with consumers reaping the rewards.
Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
The FCC’s application of its spectrum screen/cap policy is so egregiously arbitrary and capricious it does not pass the laugh test.
Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
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Economics · Environment/Energy
Cato Policy Analyst Marian L. Tupy had a cool blog post about how capitalism can be good for the environment. But wait…don’t private markets and the unregulated pursuit of profit[…]
Steve Jobs personified capitalism and free markets in as pure and beautiful a way as the world has seen in the modern generation of industrial giants. His pursuit of excellence[…]
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