Open Internet
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Internet/Telecom
Why Title II Net Neutrality Directly Conflicts with Consumer Privacy
by Scott Cleland April 14, 2017Net neutrality and consumer privacy are in tension because they are very different concepts, priorities, and approaches for the handling of information online.
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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
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.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
The FCC Isn’t Neutral toward Silicon Valley’s Dominant Edge Platforms
by Scott Cleland January 9, 2016The world is watching and taking note of the FCC’s blatant competition double standard that totally favors America’s dominant edge platforms above most everyone and everything else.