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FeaturedInternet/TelecomRegulation
One Year Later, The Left’s Net Neutrality Lies Look Even Dumber
by Seton Motley December 18, 2018For those who don’t pay particularly close attention to politics – those on the Left lie. A LOT.
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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
Google’s Ad Blocking Exposes the Company’s Hypocrisy on Net Neutrality
by Scott Cleland April 26, 2017Since 2006, Google has been a well-known corporate leader, funder, and vocal proponent of the net neutrality movement. The movement calls for the strongest possible utility regulation of ISPs and banning any potential ISP software from blocking or degrading the free flow of Web traffic.
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The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution contains the “Equal Protection Clause.” Washington, D.C. has long ignored just about all of our founding document – perhaps no portion thereof more than the Equal Protection Clause.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Coming Soon: Internet At The Speed Of Government
by Seton Motley June 29, 2016When government “helps” run something – that something is terrible. The bigger a hand government has in running it – the more terrible it is. If it is exclusively government-run – the terrible-ness is ingrained and inherent. And the longer government runs the show – the worse the terrible-ness becomes.
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FeaturedInternet/TelecomLiberty
FTC Should Have Priority Over Internet Privacy
by Bartlett Cleland June 9, 2016Recently, the Federal Communications Commission has proposed to construct a new, additional regulatory apparatus, asserting, without any factual support, that creating untested and discriminatory rules for internet service providers (ISPs) will be the silver bullet for protecting consumers’ privacy.
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Budgets/Taxes
Regulations Kill Economies – Obama’s Is the Regulation Administration
by Seton Motley May 17, 2016A recurring headline in the Age of President Barack Obama begins with things like “Obama Administration Issues New Rules…” and “Administration Targets…” and various variations on this theme. To wit:
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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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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google, Like Facebook, Should Admit They Were Wrong About Net Neutrality
by Seton Motley March 23, 2016Network Neutrality is a really stupid, anti-capitalism policy – that outlaws on the Internet several basic, fundamental free market tenets that are in practice in every other sector of a functioning economy.
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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.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Consumer Confusion over FCC’s Arbitrary Privacy Policymaking
by Scott Cleland February 18, 2016Let me try to explain to a consumer what the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) arbitrarily has done, and apparently intends to do, for consumer internet privacy protection going forward.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Why FCC Title II Telephone Privacy Rules Can’t Work with an Open Internet
by Scott Cleland January 30, 2016In arbitrarily applying Title II telecommunications rules to only the ISP half of Internet communications, while politically exempting the entire edge half of Internet communications in its Open Internet order, the FCC has ensured that information that was proprietary and controllable in the closed telephone world becomes public and uncontrollable in the open Internet world.