Scott Cleland
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentInternet/TelecomPolitics
Why the Internet Is Industrial Policy Not Free Market
by Scott Cleland May 25, 2021Big Tech’s defense against any potential governmental accountability is wielding the myth that their success is a result of their free market merit, innovation, and competitiveness.
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ConstitutionGovernmentInternet/TelecomPolitics
The Achilles Heel Of Big Tech’s Cancel Power
by Scott Cleland May 20, 2021It is in the raw political interests of the government’s incumbent party and unchecked Big Tech to collectively cancel the opposition party online to retain control of their levers of power long term.
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ConstitutionGovernmentPoliticsRegulation
Cancel Section 230’s Cancel Powers
by Scott Cleland April 21, 2021Section 230’s Wild West Internet policy and law empowers Big Tech to cancel and deplatform any competitor or dissenter, even the President of the United States, with impunity.
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ConstitutionEconomicsGovernmentLibertyPolitics
How US v. Google Antitrust Case Changes Internet Platform Antitrust Outlook
by Scott Cleland September 18, 2020The impending public filing of the DOJ-Google antitrust complaint effectively will mark publicly the end of the U.S. lax antitrust era of Internet platform “antitrustPollyannaism”
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Internet/Telecom
The Bipartisan Case for Modernizing Net Neutrality & Online Privacy Policy
by Scott Cleland November 15, 2018What is the simple key to passing bipartisan net neutrality and online privacy legislation?
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Internet/Telecom
Why New FTC Will Be a Responsibility Reckoning for Google, Facebook, Amazon
by Scott Cleland April 28, 2018“The Responsibility Reckoning” that everyone has been witnessing over the last year evidently is finally coming to the FTC with the Senate confirmation of a clean slate of FTC commissioners.
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Internet/Telecom
Congress Learns Sect 230 Is Linchpin of Internet Platform Unaccountability
by Scott Cleland March 26, 2018U.S. Internet policy politics has shifted.
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Internet/Telecom
America Needs a Consumer-First Internet Policy, Not Tech-First
by Scott Cleland January 25, 2018Internet users are the forgotten consumers.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Net Neutrality’s Masters of Misdirection
by Scott Cleland November 30, 2017On net neutrality, we have all been tricked by the masters of misdirection.
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Budgets/TaxesInternet/Telecom
Implications of DOJ’s Potential Challenge of the AT&T Time Warner Merger
by Scott Cleland November 19, 2017Transactions should be legally treated similarly according to legal precedent – basic fairness.
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GovernmentInternet/Telecom
Debunking Edge Competition Myth Predicate in FCC Title II Broadband Order – FCC Comments
by Scott Cleland August 23, 2017In 2015, the FCC’s Title II Open Internet broadband order was predicated on a demonstrably false central competitive premise: that the Internet’s edge was competitive while the broadband Internet core was not competitive. The facts prove the opposite.
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Internet/Telecom
Why Aren’t Google Amazon & Facebook’s Winner-Take-All Networks Neutral?
by Scott Cleland July 14, 2017Ironically, the world’s leading winner-take-all Internet platforms — Google, Amazon, and Facebook — are the leading voices of the July 12th “Internet-wide Day of Action to Save Net Neutrality.”
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Internet/Telecom
Why US Antitrust Non-Enforcement Produces Online Winner-Take-All Platforms
by Scott Cleland June 25, 2017If one considers the evidence, it is evident that U.S. antitrust enforcers have enabled the current “new normal” of online winner-take-all platforms.