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The US Department of Justice has issued a wish list of reform laws aimed directly at the big Internet media giants.
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President Trump finally issued an Executive Order targeting viewpoint discrimination by Big Tech social media companies.
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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedInternet/TelecomLegal AffairsPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep155) – Censored! Social Media War on Conservatives, Pension Crisis, CAFE Standards
by Donald Kendal August 31, 2018Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft present episode #155 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from the Media Research Center, the Illinois Policy Institute, the Mackinac Center, and the Manhattan Institute.
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FeaturedPolitics
Can Twitter Be Trusted with Its New ‘Violent Images’ Rules?
by Billy Aouste December 22, 2017Do you trust Twitter?
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Internet/Telecom
Google’s Long, Sordid History Of Rampantly Abusing Its Massive Power
by Seton Motley September 7, 2017Uber-huge mega-company Google has been of late repeatedly buffeted by very unflattering news.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedHealth CarePodcast
In The Tank (ep90) – Center of the American Experiment, Stadium Subsidies, and NY Universal Health Care
by Donald Kendal May 26, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #90 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the Center of the American Experiment, the Mercatus Center, and Empire Center.
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Internet/Telecom
Goobris Alert! Master-IP-Thief Alphabet-Google Sues Uber for IP Theft
by Scott Cleland March 5, 2017I support every property owner’s right to protect their property from theft.That said, when Alphabet-Google, arguably America’s worst corporate IP thief (see below), sues Uber for IP theft, it reminds us of the adage that there is “no honor among thieves.”
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Regulation
FCC Should Sunset Set-Top Box Provision Because Market is Fully Competitive
by Scott Cleland January 30, 2017The latest FCC rule was a wise, pro-competitive, pro-property rights, and good government request from Congress to the new Chairman Pai
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Legal AffairsLibertyMedia
Cultural Marxism Update: YouTube Blacklists Prager University Videos
by Jim Lakely October 12, 2016This is yet more proof that the left always exercises its power brutally to suppress any “improper” speech and thoughts.
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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, 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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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Many in Washington DC are Drowning in Lake Me
by Seton Motley March 15, 2016I’ve heard the following quote ascribed to National Basketball Association (NBA) player, coach and executive Pat Riley – but the Internet is not giving up the ghost on provenance to him or anyone else. As I recall, the recitation is: “That player is drowning in Lake Me.” Meaning a person who is totally self-absorbed. Transfixed by their own navel (which actually has a name – Omphaloskepsis). A person who finds himself endlessly fascinating – and utterly invaluable.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Why Google Can’t Criticize EU Much for Ruling it Dominant & Anticompetitive
by Scott Cleland February 8, 2016In the next several weeks, expect the EC’s Competition Directorate to decide that Google is in fact dominant with >90% share of Internet search in Europe and that Google has abused its search dominance by biasing its own Shopping service over competitors. It also could formally charge Google for abuse of its search dominance in contractually tying Google Search and other search-driven apps like Maps, YouTube, etc. to Android to extend its search dominance to mobile search and to the operating system market where Android now owns >80% share.