The video archive of yesterday’s Induce Act debate at the Cato Institute is now online here: http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=1670 It was a great debate.
October 2004
“The Commission is not simply considering minor adjustments to specific regulations–the Commission is considering the future of electronic and optic communications for many years to come” – FCC Chairman Michael Powell. Does this statement scare anyone? Powell said this at the Fall Voice on the Net Conference 2004 in Boston yesterday. He said it in [...]
Our long national nightmare is over. Under intense pressure from many politicians and other groups, Sinclair Broadcasting has caved in to demands that they not air a documentary critical of presidential candidate John Kerry’s Vietnam War record. Wheh! Thank God for that. I mean, can you imagine how awful it would have been if this [...]
The fights over media this year just get more and more bizarre. I got an e-mail the other day from The Nation magazine that began: “Among media watchdog groups, it’s an article of faith that concentration of power in the hands of massive media conglomerates is dangerous for the public interest. The fear is that [...]
Andrew Grossman, Heritage’s senior web editor, sent over the following on the just-released Google Desktop, and the looming battle between Google and MS. (To see more from Grossman, check out the Heritage policy weblog): “Last week, Google, a company renowned for its search service, released the Google Desktop, a piece of software that lets users [...]
The New Millennium Research Council is hosting an event next Wedneday (Oct 27) in Washington on “The End of Regulation? Reforming Telecom Policy and REgulator’s Roles to Meet New Market Realities.” Speakers at the half-day conference–including TLFer’s Braden Cox and Adam Thierer–will discuss the future of regulation and of regulators in the coming IP world. [...]
And taxpayers foot the bill. John Borland over at CNET laments the fact that telecommunications providers and “golf-themed” community developers in the suburban Houston area are tapping into $2.2 billion in federal giveaways designed to fund rural broadband deployment. The Houston developments receiving the sweet, sweet subsidies also happen to be in Tom DeLay’s district. [...]
It is becoming increasingly clear that the Markle Foundation, a New York based non-profit, is evil. It assembled a group of people to think very carefully about anti-terrorism. The work of this group has quickly metastisized into federal Big Brother legislation. Exhibit A: A National Surveillance Network The Markle Foundation’s Report entitled “Building a Trusted [...]
Here’s a news story about parents discovering pornographic links on the ‘blog of their girls’ volleyball coach. But this cub reporter’s investigation reveals that the links are all just ‘blog spam. That is, postings to the comments section that are done by a script. Typical material for these postings includes Viagra, online casinos, and good [...]
The GHz race officially came to an end this week. No, really. Intel, who has held the speed crown for more than 5 years, has thrown in the towel, announcing that they would break the 4 GHz barrier… well, never. This is a development that analysts have been predicting for years. Since the late ’90s, [...]
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