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So reports the Internet Freedom Coalition, debunking a variety of shrillitudes from advocates who want the government to regulate the Internet. And the American Legislative Exchange Council has joined a chorus of support for the D.C. Circuit’s decision upholding the rule of law in the regulatory environment.
REAL ID continues its long, slow failure. The federal government’s national ID plans continue to bash against the shoals of state and popular opposition. Late last month, the governor of Utah signed H.B. 234 into law. The bill prohibits the Utah driver license division from implementing REAL ID. That brings to 25 the number of [...]
Here are two radio programs that took place today discussing the ramifications of this week’s Comcast v. FCC decision. The first was today’s Diane Rehm Show on NPR and it featured Ben Scott of Free Press, Amy Schatz of The Wall Street Journal, and Kyle McSlarrow of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA). I [...]
Well, you got it! Here’s a essay of mine that The Daily Caller ran today discussing the ramifications of the decision. ___________ Internet freedom got a reprieve Tuesday when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia slapped down a brazen attempt by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to ignore the rule of [...]
Yesterday, if you paid attention reeeeally carefully (1, 2, 3, 4), you probably figured out the D.C. Circuit had ruled that Congress hadn’t given the Federal Communications Commission power to regulate the Internet and that the FCC couldn’t bootstrap that power from other authority. It was a rare but welcome affirmation that the rule of [...]
In the wake of yesterday’s ruling in the D.C. Circuit that the FCC had exceeded its authority in attempting to regulate access to the Internet, I did a number of radio interviews and a radio debate with Derek Turner of Free Press, a leading advocate of Internet regulation. The debate was a brief, fair exchange of views. I was [...]
The Federal Communications Commission keeps grabbing and the judges keep slapping its hands. The big news today is that a federal appeals court has ruled the FCC has no legal authority to regulate the Internet. This throws the entire FCC broadband policy agenda into turmoil. The decision, by the United States Court of Appeals for [...]
I got a call today from CNBC asking me to appear on a program to discuss the rising controversy surrounding GetUnvarnished.com, which CNBC called “the scariest website ever” and an “online reputation killer.” For those of you not familiar with the site, it bills itself as “an online resource for building, managing, and researching professional [...]
(Adam beat me to the punch (he’s on East Coast time, after all), but I wanted to make a few preliminary remarks about the FCC loss today anyway.) The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its opinion today in Comcast’s appeal of sanctions issued in 2008, rejecting the FCC’s authority to issue the sanctions in [...]
The decision in Comcast v. FCC is out and it’s a resounding defeat for the Federal Communications Commission and the agency’s creative interpretations of “ancillary jurisdiction.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia just wasn’t buying the FCC’s claim that it had “ancillary jurisdiction” to enforce amorphous policy principles against Comcast under [...]
January 27, 2012
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