Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
I’ve just released a new PFF white paper looking at the hysteria that has often accompanied major media mergers and then taking a look at the marketplace reality years after the fact. Here‘s the PDF, but I have also pasted the entire thing down below. _____________________________ A Brief History of Media Merger Hysteria: From AOL-Time [...]
November was certainly a bad month, public relations-wise, for the Administration’s stimulus program, what with claims that the program had created huge new numbers of jobs debunked. (Who would have guessed that numbers given for Arizona’s 15th congressional district or Minnesota’s 57th district were wrong?) But, as pointed out last week by my collegue Meinan Goto, [...]
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski linked spectrum management, universal service and network neutrality in a speech yesterday at the Innovation Economy Conference in Washington, and in the process may have signaled some comprehension of the negative consequences network neutrality regulation may have. His most significant statement was a concession that network management will be required to [...]
The FCC’s chairman and broadband task force have announced that they want to include universal service reform in the FCC’s national broadband plan even before the public comment period on this topic has closed. Far from jumping the gun, they are simply recognizing what everyone who follows universal service has known for years.
What are the consumer protection issues of online social media sites and what’s the right regulatory balance? That was the focus of today’s Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) event called “Social Media and Consumer Protection: Finding a Balance.” The breakfast event featured Tim Sparapani of Facebook, Pablo Chavez of Google, and Ari Schwartz of the [...]
The U.S. Treasury and the Federal Reserve have pushed back the deadline for banking industry compliance with regulations pursuant to the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (UIGEA). UIGEA, the controversial tack-on to the Bush administration’s SAFE Port Act aimed at curtailing on-line gambling by making it illegal for U.S banks and financial institutions [...]
It is my great pleasure to welcome Steve Titch as a contributor to the Technology Liberation Front. Like me, Steve has some journalism blood in his background but came to find that think tank hours were much better (even if the pay isn’t)! He has been a telecom and IT policy analyst for the Reason [...]
We all know those “hyper-users” that are constantly connected with their cell phones, smartphones, or other mobile device. Often, they’re the person next to you on the metro or standing in line. Often, they’re young. And according to a new Pew report, most of these young hyper-users are young Latinos and blacks. NPR had a [...]
January 29, 2012
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