tech
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GovernmentInternet/Telecom
China Virus Lockdown and Big Tech Censorship: Stop Treating Us Like Children
by Seton Motley May 18, 2020Big Government doesn’t have the authority to engage in any of the nine trillion parts of the massive shutdowns they have imposed. There is no Virus Exemption Amendment to the Constitution.
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The challenge for the FCC has been, and will continue to be, to fill the “spectrum pipeline” with more available spectrum to meet the ever-increasing demand by consumers.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedGovernmentInternet/TelecomPodcastRegulation
In The Tank (ep139) – Skeptics more Eco-Friendly than Alarmists? Net Neutrality, Thanos is for Population Control
by Donald Kendal May 11, 2018John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #139 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Heritage Foundation and the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
ObamaCare And Net Neutrality Are Doing Exactly The Damage Their Opponents Predicted
by Seton Motley August 2, 2016Like with all huge new government power grabs, there are a few very predictable post-grab outcomes. Let’s look at a few through the prisms of relatively new grab Net Neutrality – and ObamaCare, a more vintage grab thus doing even more predicted damage.
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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
Everyone Loathes the Latest Obama Power Grab – Except Google, and That’s All That Matters
by Seton Motley May 5, 2016A key Barack Obama Administration legacy item is its wanton abuse of the Constitution’s separation and balance of powers. No Executive Branch in history has spent more time pretending to be the Legislative Branch – writing regulations where the requisite preceding law doesn’t exist.
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There are many dimensions to the hack of Sony that, by all accounts, now appears to be a North Korean cyberattack. Certainly, the attack ought to make us all aware that, regardless of debates about the niceties of the labels applied, the U.S. has entered a new era in which cyberwarfare (and response to cyberattacks) will constitute an important element of our national security strategy.
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FeaturedInternet/TelecomPodcast
HEARTLAND DAILY PODCAST – Seton Motley: How Title II Classification Could Lead to Internet Tax
by Jim Lakely December 19, 2014Jim Lakely, communications director at The Heartland Institute and co-director of Heartland’s Center on the Digital Economy, talked with one of the best free-market tech experts in Washington: Less Government President Seton Motley, who also happens to be a policy advisor to Heartland.
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Much of the federal government’s communications core management and operations hasn’t changed since the General Services Administration created the Federal Telecommunications Service in 1960.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Anti-Innovation Regulation Makes DC Uber Angry
by Alexandra Shanahan May 17, 2013Uber, a tech start-up and on-demand transportation service, is under attack by anti-innovation regulation in Washington DC.