Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
My piece about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce event last Friday on U.S. intellectual property attachés giving a report, and taking a hard line, on the enforcement of U.S. intellectual property, overseas, is now live on ip-watch.org. Here’s the first couple of paragraphs: WASHINGTON, DC – Nations ranging from Brazil to Brunei to Russia are [...]
Before commenting on Lawrence Lessig’s latest call to abolish the Federal Communications Commission (he issued a similar call for the FCC’s abolition earlier this year, which I commented on here), let’s recall what Tim Lee posted yesterday about “Real Regulators“: Too many advocates of regulation seem to have never considered the possibility that the FCC [...]
Don’t miss Jim Harper’s excellent post on the strange way people have responded to the failures of regulation on wall street. In a Meet the Press exchange, we learn that people reported Bernie Madoff’s suspicious books to the SEC, which chose not to do anything about it. And it was agreed around the table that [...]
A couple of quick follow-ups to my last post: first, a commenter points out that Career Builder is an example of a successful spin-off from a major media company. (Actually, from three media companies; I bet having ownership by multiple companies helped insulate the company from any one firm’s internal politics). So it appears that [...]
Having recently read The Innovator’s Dilemma, it’s worth pointing out that the discussion Ezra Klein and Matt Yglesias are having about the decline of newspapers is a classic illustration of the principles Clayton Christensen laid out a decade ago. Internet news is a classic disruptive technology. At its outset, it was simple, dirt cheap, and [...]
Mark Cuban probably didn’t know how much he’d rev up the hypocrisy meter when he suggested that the government should report its own spending and other financial information in XBRL. The SEC recently announced that it would require public companies to do their financial reporting in the format. Having the government do it to is [...]
Mike Palage, the first Adjunct Fellow at PFF’s Center for Internet Freedom, just published the following piece on the PFF blog. ICANN‘s plan to begin accepting applications for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) in mid-2009 may have been derailed by last week’s outpouring of opposition from the global business community and the United States Government (USG). [...]
Regular readers will recall my great interest in video games and the public policy debates surrounding efforts to regulate “violent” games in particular. One thing I bring up in almost every essay I write on this subject is how fears about kids and video games are almost always overblown and that kids can typically separate [...]
“Damn their lies and trust your eyes. Dig every kind of fox!” I here sing one for the freedom to mix it up as you and your honey alone see fit: “Hapa” means “mixed race” in Hawaiian. Skin-tone mash ups have profoundly enriched my life, first with the Honolulu Hapa herself and then with our [...]
February 13, 2012
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