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Internet/Telecom
Congress Was Right to Save Consumers From Privacy Rules Imposed Under Net Neutrality
by Scott Cleland April 6, 2017Congress was right to rescind the Title II broadband privacy order passed by the Federal Communications Commission in October. The order took a nonpartisan public policy issue substantively unrelated to net neutrality, consumer privacy, and unnecessarily turning it into a partisan issue.
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Internet/Telecom
The Constitution Protects Us…From Government. And Only From Government
by Seton Motley March 14, 2017Candidate Donald Trump ran on massive regulatory rollbacks. And won thereon. Since being sworn in, he’s – in very un-Washington-D.C.-fashion – adhered to and started implementing his campaign promises.
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FCC Chairman Pai Shows the Mobile World Congress He’s the Un-Wheeler
by Scott Cleland March 5, 2017New Trump FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s keynote speech on “Building the 5G Economy” at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today spotlighted to the communications world that the U.S. FCC is going in a very different policy direction than that of the previous FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler.
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Internet/Telecom
Goobris Alert! Master-IP-Thief Alphabet-Google Sues Uber for IP Theft
by Scott Cleland March 5, 2017I support every property owner’s right to protect their property from theft.That said, when Alphabet-Google, arguably America’s worst corporate IP thief (see below), sues Uber for IP theft, it reminds us of the adage that there is “no honor among thieves.”
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Internet/Telecom
The Internet – Is An Amazing ‘Less Government’ Success Story
by Seton Motley February 28, 2017Nothing in the history of humanity has grown bigger, faster or better – than the World Wide Web. In just about a quarter century, it has become an economic and political force of nigh immeasurable impact.
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Internet/Telecom
The Key Competitive Facts behind the AT&T-Time-Warner Acquisition
by Scott Cleland October 29, 2016The competitive facts of: this transaction, the marketplace around it, and the DOJ’s vertical precedents and non-precedents, are this transaction’s best friend.