network neutrality
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Internet/Telecom
A Brief History Of The Left’s Attempts To (Over-)Regulate The Internet
by Seton Motley October 29, 2018The relatively brief history of the Internet – is a quarter-century visual aide of how the Left looks to over-regulate things.
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EconomicsFeatured
Pro-Net Neutrality Big Tech – Is with Conservatives as Anti-Neutrality as You Can Get
by Seton Motley August 14, 2018Network Neutrality is absolutely awful policy. It is a huge government imposition on the entirety of the Internet. It has zero business being even considered – by any nation laying even the remotest claim to being a free market economy.
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Internet/Telecom
The Utter Dumbness of the Bureaucracy ‘Comment Period’
by Seton Motley August 22, 2017The United States is a Constitutional republic. What does that mean?:
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Uncategorized
Which Internet Gatekeeper Discriminates the Most? Alphabet-Google
by Scott Cleland May 26, 2017If proponents of network neutrality, an Internet non-discrimination principle, truly care about preventing discrimination on the Internet, why do they turn a blind eye to the worst offender of gatekeeper discrimination on the Internet – Alphabet-Google?
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Internet/Telecom
You’d Never Have Heard Of Google And Facebook, Netflix And Uber Without…
by Seton Motley March 22, 2017Everything these companies own, owe themselves to Internet Service Providers (ISPs.)
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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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FeaturedGovernmentInternet/TelecomPolitics
The Obama Legacy: If It Lives By ‘Executive Action’ – It Should Die By ‘Executive Action’
by Seton Motley November 15, 2016A hallmark – perhaps the hallmark – of the Barack Obama Administration is the “executive action.” The unilateral changes in law – oft major in size and scope – executed by the Executive Branch.
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Internet/TelecomRegulation
Facebook Looks To Cronyism Its Way Out Of Its Cronyism
by Seton Motley October 12, 2016For Internet giant Facebook, that device – designed to injure others, now injuring them – is Network Neutrality.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Google, the Barack Obama Administration – and Even More Questionable Policy
by Seton Motley March 28, 2016Almost inarguably, no private entity is more enmeshed with the Barack Obama Administration – than is Google. This has been – in way too many ways for an allegedly free market economy – the Google Administration.
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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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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Berin Szoka: Government’s Fight Against Zero-Rating and Consumer Choice
by Jesse Hathaway January 13, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, managing editor Jesse Hathaway talks with Berin Szoka, president of TechFreedom, a non-profit organization devoted to promoting the progress of technology that improves the human condition, about how regulators both at home and abroad are using the power of the state to combat zero-rating, a kind of sponsored-data plan where access to popular web applications like Facebook or streaming video services is made available to consumer at no cost.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Facebook Faces Media Bias: One Story – MANY Stupid Headlines
by Seton Motley January 6, 2016Media bias is hydra-headed in its perniciousness. It operates on many levels – in many ways. One of its practitioners’ favorite moves is the terrible headline. In which they knowingly – or unknowingly – tip their hand on the story at hand. These heinous headlines can effectively work to sway casual, drive-by media consumers – who don’t go deep into multiple articles to get a more fully-formed idea.