Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
It was no surprise yesterday that the Supreme Court announced it would not be reviewing the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision overturning the FCC’s media ownership revisions from 2003. Neither the agency nor the Bush Administration had the heart to re-fight the battle that Michael Powell waged to get these meager revisions through given [...]
Well, after mentioning it in just about every blog entry I’ve penned over the past few months, I’m happy to say that my new book, Media Myths: Making Sense of the Debate over Media Ownership, is finally out! I open the book by posing the following questions: Are media companies in this country too big? [...]
Apparently I’m not the only one who thinks that Google is a media company. Check out this Reuters story about how Google is not only a media company, but with its stock trading at a staggering $293 a share, it is the most valuable media company in the world. In just 10 months of trading [...]
Forbes has an interesting column on how to lower your mobile phone taxes by changing your area code to a lower tax jusrisdiction. Though this loophole will likely be plugged quickly, it illustrates the difficulty of jurisdictional controls in an increasingly borderless world and the increasing absurdity of regulations based on mere physical location. It [...]
Two months ago, I told the story of how I found a $29 progressive scan DVD player at CompUSA. As I noted then, I found this amazing in many respects, but mostly because I had spent something like $1000 bucks on my first DVD player when they hit the market. Well, I have found yet [...]
Last night, the “News Hour with Jim Lehrer” on PBS ran a wonderful segment on the changing demand for news and how the industry is responding. Ironically, the News Hour’s own website is a great example of how old news outlets can adapt to the changing times. Not only can the complete transcript and video [...]
I had an editorial that ran in today’s Washington Post entitled “New Worlds to Censor.” In this editorial, I discuss the threat of expanded media censorship and point out why traditional regulatory rationales are no longer applicable in our new media environment. This editorial builds on the First Amendment studies that we have been publishing [...]
May 16, 2012
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
