Wide Support for Internet Access Tax Moratorium
The Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1998 was designed to promote the growth of the Internet by placing a moratorium on state and local taxation of Internet access and the[...]
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Featured · Government · Internet/Telecom · Politics
Obama May Give Internet Control to “Global Community”
On March 14, the Obama administration announced it was initiating a process to transfer oversight of the Internet from the United States to some yet-to-be-defined global entity.
Assistant Secretary of Commerce Lawrence Strickling said, “The timing is right to start the transition process.”
You don’t need to be a credentialed foreign-policy expert, however, to harbor reservations concerning the plan to turn over management of key Internet functions to what the Commerce Department called the “global multi-stakeholder community.”
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Accelerating the De-Americanization of the Internet
This article explains the broad implications for the Internet of: America handing over the master key of the Internet to ICANN; and the European Parliament updating privacy law for the first time since 1995 nearly unanimously. As the Internet’s moorings increasingly detach from America, the Internet ship will enter the uncharted waters of Internet realpolitik.
A New FCC and a New Communications Act
Anyone who has followed communications law and policy for a number of years – and I’ve been doing so for over thirty-five years – knows that the marketplace environment has changed dramatically in the last “number” of years. And undeniably – although at times some do try to deny it – the change has been in the direction of more competition and more choice for consumers.
U.S. Wireless Competition Criticism “Believe It or Not”
With due credit to “Ripley’s Believe it or Not!,”® so much odd and bizarre is happening in Washington in the “name” of “U.S. wireless competition criticism” that the topic calls for its own collection of: “Believe it or Not!”® oddities.
May: FCC, Broadband and Fallacy of Government ‘Competition’
The Federal Communications Commission has been much in the news recently — and deservedly so — owing to its ill-conceived “Critical Information Needs” study. Thankfully, after a public outcry, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler recently canceled this study.
Tech Champions! Constitution Warriors?
Tomorrow the House Judiciary Committee will hold the hearing “Exploring Alternative Solutions on the Internet Sales Tax Issue.” Taking some time to explore the Constitutional challenges of current proposals which mandate the collection of taxes by businesses across state lines and an examining the potential for the radical expansion of government would be a good place to focus.
FCC’s Open Internet Order Do-over – Key Going Forward Takeaways
As the dust has settled from the D.C. Circuit’s January 14th decision to vacate and remand the FCC Open Internet Order for another try, and from FCC Chairman Wheeler’s February 19th statement accepting the court’s invitation to propose open Internet rules that could pass court muster, what does it all this mean going forward?
Video: Scott Cleland on Why We Need a New Communications Law
Scott Cleland has released a new video detailing the pressing need in America for a new communications law.
How the Google-EC Competition Deal Harms Europe
Rather than enforcing European competition law against systemic abuses of dominance by the single most dominant company in Europe, this political deal surrenders inexplicable concessions, including defining Google’s 90 percent share as not dominant, claiming its multiple abuses of dominance are legal and implying Google did nothing wrong.
Even When Government Power Grabs Are Overturned – The Left Wins
The Barack Obama Administration has been overstepping its Constitutional bounds since just about five minutes after its first inauguration.
Net Neutrality and the Internet
Net Neutrality is Progressivism for the Internet – it guarantees everyone equal amounts of nothing.
Featured · Government · Random · Regulation
Are America’s Best Days Really Ahead?
America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century tells the story of our nation’s government as crushingly expensive, one that is failing at its basic functions and unable to keep its promises. Such an unworkable and out-of-control government cannot continue as the status quo.
The European Commission’s Google Antitrust Problems Are Not Going Away
Why are European Commission antitrust authorities bending over backwards to settle with Google? The EU’s apparent preference for settling, rather than prosecuting Google for antitrust violations, turns a blind eye[...]
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Legal Affairs
Why Chairmen Upton and Walden Plan a Communications Act Update
In sum, the need for modernizing America’s communications law is urgent and undeniable.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
A Message for Susan: Dynamic Markets Make Predictions Hazardous
I wish I could get Susan to agree that it’s no time to let captive thinking premised on a hypothesized market trump the competitive realities of the broadband marketplace. If such thinking ever were to lead to regulating broadband providers as public utilities, rest assured that consumers would be the real losers.
Obamacare Yet Again Shows: More Government Means a Worse Private Sector
The lies about ObamaCare from the Administration and the Democrats are now being revealed in a fast and furious fashion.
Featured · Internet/Telecom · Regulation
Dial-up Rules for the Broadband Age?
The call for net neutrality is really a call for a return to monopoly common carrier regulation for broadband networks.
Real vs. Contrived “Modern” FCC Policy Thinking – Part 20 Obsolete Communications Law Series
Just like the wisdom that one cannot make a silk purse from a sow’s ear; one cannot make “modern” FCC policy from obsolete communications law.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Liberty · Taxes
Voters Don’t Want the “Marketplace Fairness Act”
A survey conducted by the R-Street Institute and the National Taxpayers Union shows that voters across the ideological spectrum oppose the Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA). If signed into law, the[...]
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