Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Connect Safely, which is great parenting and online child safety resource run by my friends Anne Collier and Larry Magid, has just released some excellent “Virtual World Safety Tips for Parents of Teens.” Tons of good advice in there worth checking out, especially the thing I always focus on in all my online safety work–talk [...]
“It was then, and is now, the largest merger in American business history,” notes Tim Arango of the New York Times about the AOL-Time Warner mega-merger, which happen ten years this month. And yet, as he points out in his essay, “How the AOL-Time Warner Merger Went So Wrong,” things didn’t end up going so [...]
I was on CNBC today live from the floor of the CES show in Vegas debating the question of whether allowing Internet access in cars and other in-vehicle digital technologies was a good idea. I was up against Nicholas Ashford, an MIT technology & law professor. In-vehicle communications and entertainment technologies are a major theme [...]
As I mentioned, I’m out in Vegas attending the Tech Policy Summit at CES today and tomorrow and trying to blog about some of what’s going on. Here’s my summary of panel#1 on broadband policy and panel #2 on spectrum policy. The third panel was on the future of copyright and content creation. The session [...]
As I mentioned, I’m out in Vegas attending the Tech Policy Summit at CES today and tomorrow and trying to blog about some of what’s going on. Here’s my summary of panel#1 on broadband policy and the pending national broadband plan. The second panel was entitled “The Spectrum Grab and Innovation” and was moderated by [...]
I’m attending the Tech Policy Summit at CES in Las Vegas today and tomorrow. Lots of good discussions. The focus of the first panel, which was entitled, “Making Nationwide Deployment and Adoption of Broadband a Reality,” was what we should expect from the National Broadband Plan. This is particularly timely as the FCC just announced [...]
Released on December 31, the 2009 Universal Service Monitoring Report reveals which states are the biggest net gainers and which states are the biggest net payers into the Federal Communications Commission’s Universal Service Fund.
As the annual Winter Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is set to convene in Las Vegas tomorrow, it will be interesting to see the temper of the policy climate. On the federal and state policy level, the hostility towards every facet of the high-tech sector has done nothing but grow. Not too long ago, politicians were [...]
Yo, tech policy geeks attending CES this week… The Tech Policy Summit team has put together a terrific “Guide to Tech Policy at 2010 CES.” [PDF here] Very handy for tech policy wonks! I hope to see some of you at some of these sessions and keynote addresses. As I mentioned a few days ago, [...]
Over at Mashable, Ben Parr has a post (“Facebook Turns to the Crowd to Eradicate Offensive Content“) expressing surprise that Facebook has a crowdsourcing / community policing solution to deal with objectionable content: Did you know that Facebook has a crack team of employees whose mission is to deal with offensive content and user complaints? [...]
January 27, 2012
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
