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The House of Representatives’ Democrat majority FY2020 budget includes refunding the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.
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Internet/Telecom
Severe Storm Warning for 5G, Inaccuracies Flood Watch
by Bartlett Cleland June 12, 2019Government often seems quite adept at solving yesterday’s problems, building or protecting systems that are irrelevant today.
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Internet/Telecom
Oops: Burger King Accidentally Proves How Dumb And Unnecessary Net Neutrality Regs Are
by Seton Motley January 30, 2018All the rage last week amongst the mis-informed masses – and the mass media misinforming them – was a pro-Network Neutrality video burger joint Burger King (BK) bizarrely extruded.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
It’s About Time! Restoring Internet Freedom
by Bartlett Cleland December 18, 2017There must have been a time, a moment, in each instance when freedom and liberty triumphed that the people exclaimed “Finally!” Today is such a day for internet freedom.
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The federal government has spent the last two centuries-plus willfully ignoring the Constitution. With ever-increasing frequency and intensity, the Feds have drifted further and further from their charter.
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Internet/Telecom
The Trump DOJ “Slam Dunk” Antitrust Case Against Alphabet-Google
by Scott Cleland June 29, 2017What’s quintessential illegal monopoly behavior?
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Internet/Telecom
The Net Neutrality Debate in a Phrase: Net Neutrality Good, Title II Bad
by Bartlett Cleland May 21, 2017Net neutrality, once a concept only discussed in arcane telecommunications legal policy settings has become a quite popular topic
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After years of investigations, lawsuits, and fines, a checkered past of patent abuse and exploitation appears to have caught up with a major U.S. chip developer.
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Regulation
Appeals Court Blasts Big Deregulatory Hole Between FCC & FTC Jurisdictions
by Scott Cleland September 6, 2016A Ninth Circuit Court decision overturned an FTC enforcement action against AT&T for “throttling” broadband data speeds by definitively ruling that the FTC did not have any legal jurisdiction over AT&T (and other common carriers) because of the explicit common carrier exemption in the FTC’s core Section 5 legal authority.
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The FCC’s Open Internet order and proposed Title II privacy rules divided what was unified. For privacy, it broke what was working. Confused what was clear. Complicated what was simple. Unprotected what they sought to protect. Created more costs than benefits. Since the Internet’s beginning the FTC has had privacy authority over information services.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
The Trust Ramifications of an EU-Google Search Bias Conviction
by Scott Cleland May 20, 2016The Sunday Telegraph reports that the EU is poised to fine Google an EU record ~€3b for “web search monopoly abuse” and that “Google will be banned from continuing to manipulate search results to favour itself and harm rivals.”
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Goobris: Google Expecting Less Privacy Regulation than its Competitors
by Scott Cleland May 15, 2016Why does the company that by far collects the most private information that the FCC claims it wants to protect, and that also has the worst consumer privacy protection record with the FTC, (Google), get 99% exempted from the telecom and cable privacy protections expected of telephone, broadband, cable and satellite providers?
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When one’s actions demonstrably create a worse rather than better outcome net-net, like the FCC’s new Title II ISP privacy policy does, others would justifiably consider it a mistake.