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Opinion: ‘Zero Rating’ Is Next Battlefield in FCC’s Digital War on Consumers
by Jesse Hathaway June 1, 2015The Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) recent decision to claim full regulatory power over the way the Internet works was bad enough, but the next battle in the government’s war on consumer-friendly innovation is approaching fast.
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FeaturedInternet/TelecomPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Seton Motley: Disney Sues Verizon Over “A La Carte” Service
by Jim Lakely May 25, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Director of Communications Jim Lakely speaks with Seton Motley, President of Less Government. Motley and Lakely talk about the pending lawsuit between Disney and Verizon.
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FeaturedInternet/TelecomMedia
Heartland’s Jim Lakely Crushes ACLU in Net Neutrality Debate
by Jim Lakely November 19, 2014The Internet isn’t broken, and doesn’t need the government to fix it. That was my overriding message in a debate on Chicago’s PBS station WTTW Tuesday night with Illinois ACLU Executive Director Colleen K. Connell.
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FeaturedLegal Affairs
Redskins Brouhaha Shows How Politics Is Ruining Sports Talk Radio
by Benjamin Domenech June 23, 2014One of the few simple joys I have in life, shared with Camille Paglia, is listening to sports radio. She describes it as one of the few arenas still safe for an old-fashioned sort of masculinity – I think of it more as a respite from reading and thinking about politics and policy, second only to leaning back in an easy chair with a good simple future-noir detective story about hunting Chinese Martians or a word that could end the world. There is a simple rhythm and cadence to good sports talk radio which allows for an undercurrent of wit and humor juxtaposed with statistical argumentation, hitting the high and the low.