About Adam Thierer
Adam Thierer is a Senior Fellow with the Progress & Freedom Foundation and the Director of PFF's Center for Digital Media Freedom. He formerly served as Director of Telecommunications Studies at the Cato Institute for four years and as a Fellow in Economic Policy at the Heritage Foundation for nine years. He is the author or editor of six books on technology and media policy. Thierer earned his bachelor's degree in political science and journalism at Indiana University and received his master's degree in international business management and trade theory at the University of Maryland. In his spare time he: burns through his savings buying sports cars on E-Bay, enjoys drinking fine English cask-conditioned ales (but not while driving the aforementioned sports cars), plays far too many video games for a man of his age, and teaches his kids how to draw pencil mustaches and devil horns on pictures of politicians.Posts by Adam Thierer
- Thank God the Euro-crats are Saving Us from a Browser “Monopoly”
- Cyberbullying Legislation Debate: Video from FOSI Capitol Hill Event (6/12)
- Some Random Thoughts on “Sponsored Blogging”
- TPW 44: Unsafe at Any Setting (A Conversation with Chris Soghoian)
- Cyberbullying Legislation: Why Education is Preferable to Regulation
- Free Press Hypocrisy over Metering & Internet Price Controls
- The (Un)Free Press Calls for Internet Price Controls: “The Broadband Internet Fairness Act”
- China’s Green Dam Filter and the Threat of Rising Global Censorship
- European Regulators Think Consumers Too Stupid to Know How to Download a Different Browser
- Free-Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy: Bringing Some Sanity Back to Parenting Debates
- Online Safety Technology Working Group (OSTWG) Is Underway
- Many Ways to Follow the TLF!
- Cuban on Fragmentation & Attention in the Blogosphere (or Why Power Laws Really Do Govern All Media)
- Thomas Sowell on the Model that Drives Elitist Ideological Crusades
- Free Speech Implications of COPPA Expansion
- On Measuring Technology Diffusion Rates
- Privacy as ‘a Modern Invention’
- Calif. Appeals Video Game Decision to Supremes; What if They Take It?
- Reply Comments in FCC’s “Child Safe Viewing Act” Notice of Inquiry
- Cutting the (Video) Cord: Two Excellent Washington Post Articles
- Emerging Threats to Section 230
- Tim Lee’s Look at Lessig’s Predictions in Code
- What is Cyber-Libertarianism? (The Debate over Lessig’s Code at 10 Continues)
- Cato Unbound Debate: Lessig’s Code at Ten (Part 4: Lessig’s response)
- Nerd Law vs. Real Law
- More on “Open vs. Closed” Technologies & Business Models
- Terrific Section 230 Resource
- Cato Unbound Debate: Lessig’s Code at Ten (Part 3: Thierer response)
- Cato Unbound Debate: Lessig’s Code at Ten (Part 2: Zittrain response)
- Cato Unbound Debate: Lessig’s Code at Ten (Part 1: Declan’s Lead Essay)
- Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 6: Other Articles & Opinions)
- Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 5: The Dissents)
- NTIA names Online Safety Technical Working Group members
- Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 4: The Thomas Concurrence)
- Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 3: The Majority Decision)
- Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 2: Initial Thoughts)
- Supreme Court Decision in FCC v. Fox (Part 1: The Decision)
- Schneier on Data Collection and “Deception”
- Our Dynamic Internet Marketplace
- Collier on “Why Technopanics are Bad”
- Avoiding an Internet Sales Tax Cartel: Why Congress Must Protect Interstate Commerce & Reject the SSTP
- Major Filings in FCC’s “Child Safe Viewing Act” Notice of Inquiry
- Comments in FCC “Child Safe Viewing Act” Proceeding
- Anonymity, Reader Comments & Section 230
- The Competition for Our Ears
- Is This Where Privacy Regulation Is Taking Us?
- The Hypocrisy of Michael Copps
- Shall We Save Media by Socializing It?
- Video Presentation: “America’s First Amendment Twilight Zone”
- The Future of Sec. 230 and Online Immunity: My Debate with Harvard’s John Palfrey
- Dawn of Convergence-Era Content Regulation at the FCC? “Child Safe Viewing Act” NOI Launched
- Conservatives, Porn, and “Community Standards”
- Another Reminder Why Age Verification Mandates Would Be a Bad Idea
- The Week the Fairness Doctrine Died
- Privacy Trade-offs: Why We Don’t Really Care about Our Privacy as Much as We Say
- Compaine on the Future of Newspapers
- New PFF Study: “Who Needs Parental Controls?”
- Obama Wants to Tax Your Cell Phone
- The Case for Data Destruction (and Why Data Retention Mandates Would Make it Impossible)
- Herdict Launches; Will Help Us Track Global Censorship Efforts
- When Conservatives Favored the Fairness Doctrine
- Should We Have Must Carry Mandates for Satellite TV?
- Just How Far the Internet Has Come Since 1996
- Will VSDA v. Schwarzenegger Be First Major Supreme Court Video Game Case?
- The Return of Data Retention
- New Article on “FCC v Fox and Future of First Amendment”
- When Do Online Pay Walls Work?
- TPW 42: The Flare-Up over Facebook’s Revised Terms of Use
- Don’t Worry about the Fairness Doctrine. No, Wait, Strike That.
- What to do with your old flat-screen TV
- Mixed Feelings about Latest Facebook Privacy Fiasco
- The AutoAdmit Case and the Future of Sec. 230
- Welcoming Wayne Crews to the TLF
- Internet Security Concerns, Online Anonymity, and Splinternets
- CRS Report on History of Fairness Doctrine
- On Simple Privacy Policies, Free Internet Services, and “Adequate Notice”
- Stimulus Stupidity
- Shame on Mozilla
- TPW 41: Book Corner Featuring John Palfrey, author of Born Digital
- Google’s Latitude and Privacy Concerns
- Eric Goldman’s “2008 Cyberlaw Year-in-Review”
- Generativity Alive and Well with the IPhone
- Nancy Willard Puts Social Networking Risks in Context
- Book Review: Planet Google by Randall Stross
- 10 Years Ago Today… (Thinking About Technological Progress)
- Some Great Podcasts about Online Safety & the ISTTF
- Will Making Cameras “Click” Again Stop Digital Voyeurism?
- Are Gamers Served by More Government Regulation and Spending?
- NYT’s Hansell on Broadband Stimulus “Hooey”
- Video Games and “Moral Panic”
- Wikipedia = End of the Search for Truth, or Just a Beginning?
- Book Review: Post’s Jefferson’s Moose & the State of Cyberspace
- Cato’s Kuznicki on Zittrain’s Overblown Fears
- Martin Blames Others for His Own Mismanagement of FCC
- Fiber is Nice
- Closing the Book on COPA?
- Apply Fairness Doctrine to Weather Channel To Counter Pro-Weather Bias?
- Mobile OS Platforms, Competition, & Generativity
- What Would It Take to End Public Swearing?
- Internet Safety Technical Task Force releases final report
- Web 2.0, Section 230, and Nozick’s “Utopia of Utopias”
- Ars on “Better FCC Indecency Complaints”
- What Impact Will Cass Sunstein Have on Obama’s Internet Policy?
- Lessig on Building a Better Bureaucrat
- Kids, Video Games, Fantasy, & Imagination
- TPW 38: The Google Kerfuffle — Edge Caching & Net Neutrality
- Shafer’s list of professions & technologies destoryed by digital disintermediation
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 26): “Information Control” Fantasies
- Are these cell phone jammers available for personal use in cinemas?
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 25): The Series So Far
- Net Neutrality & the White Hot Spotlight of Public Attention
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 24): I Read the News Today, Oh Boy
- The Most Important Tech Policy Books of 2008
- George Will on Fairness Doctrine
- Just How Inefficient is Communications Regulation? The USF Case Study
- My debate with USA Today about new study on media & kids
- Steve Schultze on why the AWS-3 spectrum censorship plan will fail
- Podcast of Fairness Doctrine Discussion on Jim Bohannon Show
- “Child Safe Viewing Act” (S. 602) signed by President Bush
- Latest Lichtman podcast on privacy, Sec. 230, online liability
- Lessig’s call for a “simple blanket license” in Remix
- new TLF category: Video Games
- Australian video game censorship: Does it work?
- Googlephobia: Part 6 – The Left Begins to Turn on Google
- Cuban on Bandwidth Tradeoffs
- Lori Drew Case & Online Anonymity
- Nemertes “Internet Interrupted” study
- State AGs + NCMEC = The Net’s New Regulators?
- Will Traditional OTA Broadcast Networks Go Cable-Exclusive?
- 5 Digital Technologies That Improved My Life in 2008
- debating FCC’s Kevin Martin and U.S. Solicitor General Gregory Garre this weekend
- Collective Licensing Debate Creates Some Seriously Strange Bedfellows
- More FCC Cable-Related Regulatory Shenanigans
- Putting Youth Social Networking Activities and Safety in Perspective
- Net Neutrality, Free Speech, and Tim Lee’s New Paper
- The Perils of Thinking of Broadband as a Public Utility
- Book Review: Blown to Bits by Abelson, Ledeen, & Lewis
- We Don’t Need to Mandate “a la Carte”… It Already Exists
- Cutting the (Video) Cord, Part 2
- Bogus Privacy Fears over Google Flu Trends
- NYT Article on Age Verification & Schools
- Of iPhone Flutes, Digital Generativity, and Bongs
- Price Fixing in the LCD Business Sure Doesn’t Seem to Do Much Good!
- Rosenbaum-Jarvis spat over future of journalism
- The Pragmatic (Internet) Optimist’s Creed
- Book Review: Solove’s Understanding Privacy
- Harry Lewis on “The Dangers of Internet Censorship”
- Tor blog: “Anonymity on the Internet is not going away.”
- video of my debate with Jonathan Zittrain at New America Foundation
- Can I Write-In Boba Fett?
- Supreme Court oral arguments in FCC v. Fox (General Thoughts)
- Video Games, Violence, & Social “Science”: Another Day, Another Fight
- Supreme Court oral arguments in FCC v. Fox (Background)
- What’s More Dangerous: The Internet or Drunk Drivers?
- “Intellectual Property Colloquium” podcast with Doug Lichtman
- New Economy Business Models (Carr vs. Anderson)
- Book Review: Nick Carr’s Big Switch
- There Will Be No Bailout for Old Media
- Video Game Censorship Heading to Supreme Court?
- Google Book Search deal = ASCAP / online collective licensing model for the future?
- Zittrain debate at New America Foundation (11/6, 3:30)
- Reason Magazine on What Obama Means for Tech Policy
- Do Irish-Americans Deserve a Satellite Radio Set-Aside?
- Remember Newspapers?
- Irony Alert: Supreme Court Refuses to Allow Public to Hear Free Speech Case Live
- 3rd Annual “National Freedom of Speech Week”
- Loud TV Ads: No Need for Regulation
- Has anyone ever said “yes” to airline security questons like these?
- Book Review: Lee Siegel’s Against the Machine
- Male Priorities, in Order: Sex, Net, TV
- Will NASCAR Fans Get Out the Vote for Kevin Martin?
- book review: Palfrey & Gasser’s “Born Digital”
- Negroponte’s “Daily Me” = RSS Feeds + Google Alerts
- Esbin’s Early History of the Net Neutrality Debate in U.S.
- Cutting the (Video) Cord: The Shift to Online Video Continues
- Jenkins on new Pew report about “Teens, Video Games, and Civics”
- two CDT essays about child safety & free speech
- Bandwidth Cap Hysteria & the Alternative
- DTV Transition Humor
- Liberals Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 4: Banning Books in Virginia
- Senate passes “Child Safe Viewing Act” (S. 602)
- “A Manifesto for Media Freedom” — my new book with Brian Anderson
- “Feds and Internet Service Providers Don’t Mix”
- Problems in Muni Wi-fi Paradise, Part 9 (amazing article about Philly failure)
- The Great ‘Open v. Closed’ Debate Continues: Google Phone v. Apple iPhone
- Age Verification Debate Continues; Schools Now at Center of Discussion
- Problems in Muni Wi-fi Paradise, Part 8 (Boynton Beach, FL)
- another review of Zittrain’s “Future of the Internet”
- PFF filing in FCC product placement / embedded advertising inquiry
- Lost Laptop Follies, Part 8: ATF Loses Laptops… and Guns!
- Version 3.1 release: “Parental Controls & Online Child Protection”
- Tech-related Lolcats
- Porn on Planes (continued)
- Tim Wu on Obama, McCain, and “a Chicken in Every Pot”
- “‘Local’ is just one set of ripples on the lake of information”
- Privacy Solutions (Part 2): Adblock Plus
- Aliens Love Firefox Too!
- Grouping Recent Net Books: Internet Optimists vs. Pessimists
- Privacy Solutions (Part 1): Introduction
- DVRs Becoming an “Indispensable” Household Item
- Summary of Martin’s ‘War on Cable’
- Of “Cartels” and Price Wars
- “The Net Regards _______ As Failure, and Routes Around It”
- The End of “the American Internet” and the Future of Content Controls
- Another 4 months, still no FCC Video Competition Report
- Is the Public Interest Standard Really a Standard?
- Safe Search Tools & Portals for Kids – The List Keeps Growing
- Porn on Planes: 3 Possible Solutions
- Almost makes me want to buy an iPhone…
- Ubiquity for Firefox = Best App of the Year
- And the “Luddite of the Year” Award Goes to…
- An Unnatural Modern Fascination with Murder and Celebrities?
- Too Much Platform Competition?
- More on M2Z / AWS spectrum fight
- The Wrong Way to Make Local Broadcasting Relevant Again
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 23): Cox Selling Most of its Newspapers
- FCC v. Fox Television: All the Supreme Court briefs are in
- Get Ready for Internet Advertising Regulation “for the Children”
- Why Google Is a Media Company
- Enough anti-iPhone rants… just get another phone!
- What the Media Reformistas Really Want
- I would send my kids to this summer camp…
- Another muni wi-fi failure (Portland), and taxpayers will pick up the tab
- CDT-PFF Supreme Court Brief in FCC v. Fox Case
- True Cost of Video Game Censorship (continued)
- Broadband access platforms & speeds over 3 decades
- Cerf on managing networks & the need for industry discussion
- Excellent discussion on broadband metering
- Should it be illegal to text or talk while walking down the road?
- Product Placement in Historical Context
- Tim Wu’s “Mother-May-I” World of Net Neutrality Regulation
- NPR spot on Third Circuit decision in Janet Jackson case
- Joint FCC Filing on Internet Filtering Plan for AWS-3 Spectrum
- Australian ISP-Level Content Filtering Report Released
- Our First Net Neutrality Law: Congrats to our Big Gov’t Opponents
- COPA Falls Again; Is Historic 3rd Trip to Supremes Coming?
- “Scientific” Media Ratings & Labels: What Exactly Does That Mean?
- Local Web Ads and the Future of Newspapers
- 2008 edition of “Essential Facts about Video Games” is out
- 3rd Circuit ruling against FCC in Janet Jackson case
- Primer on Mobile TV Market
- Felten on The Decline of Localist Broadcasting Policies
- Why I love MythBusters…
- Newspaper Deathwatch?
- Best Albums Since Your Birth
- Dear Gov. Patterson… Regarding that Video Game Bill You Are About to Sign
- Media Metrics: The Report
- Declan on Google-Microsoft Antitrust Shenanigans
- Is Piracy Killing PC Gaming?
- The Next Great Technopanic: Wireless Geo-Location / Social Mapping
- A La Carte Regulation and the Failure of Good Intentions
- iPhone 2.0 cracked in hours… what was that Zittrain thesis again?
- Technopanics and the Great Social Networking Scare
- Liberals Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 3: The Fox Case
- Social Media Slide Show
- Our Continued Wishful Thinking about “Media Localism”
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 6 (Further reading)
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 5 (CDT-PFF joint editorial)
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 4 (Pervasiveness is Moot)
- Understanding The True Cost of Video Game Censorship Efforts
- Another muni wi-fi failure (Oakland Wireless)
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 3 (Pacifica’s Pretzel Logic)
- The ‘Contradictory Ideals’ of Internet for Everyone campaign
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 2 (Brief History of Indecency Enforcement)
- Pacifica Anniversary Week, Part 1 (General Overview)
- Regulators to Save Us from Loud TV Ads and Product Placements
- XM-Sirius, regulatory blackmail, and diversity
- Dumb and Dumberer?
- Our Exceptional First Amendment
- Meyerson on Zell: The Idiocy of Equating Media Reinvention to Terrorism
- What’s Worse Than Rigged Auctions & Internet Censorship? How About Both in One Package!
- Cuban on bandwidth hogs and tiered broadband
- A “Technology Sabbath” to Alleviate Info Overload?
- Welcoming Berin Szoka to the TLF
- Is There an Openness-Bandwidth Trade-off?
- Hitting the Reset Button after an Info-Free Vacation
- Cellphones, Freedom and the Cuban Embargo
- Everiss on Kids, Government, and Grand Theft Auto
- Video Game Platform Competition
- Why Are Some Muni WiFi Experiments Failing?
- Wireless Substitution: Some New CDC Numbers
- “The Most Powerful Computer Ever”
- The Rise & Inevitable Fall of Tech Giants
- Where is the FCC’s Annual Video Competition Report?
- Forbes on “Making Social [Networking] Sites Safer”
- my debate with Zittrain on NPR-Boston
- Will they age-verify the Pope?
- sensible thinking on TV sports contracts
- latest FTC “secret shopper” survey shows improving ratings enforcement
- Comcast to move to bandwidth cap / metering solution?
- need help… How many blogs are there out there?
- embedded Scribd presentations… just awesome
- Virginia points the way on Internet safety
- Obama on Grand Theft Auto and personal responsibility
- When gamers go mainstream
- What’s pointless about fun?
- Floppy disk humor
- Are the threats to online free speech real?
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 22): TW spin-off of cable unit
- Yale / CFP’s “9.5 Theses for Technology Policy in the Next Administration”
- Do video games create cop killers?
- Why both the Left & Right love media regulation
- Manjoo on “Grand Theft Auto 4″ hysteria
- review: Dr. Kourosh Dini’s “Video Game Play & Addiction”
- Students, Cyber-Bullying, & Online Free Speech
- Bruce Everiss on video game piracy
- Britannica Blog’s excellent “Newspapers & the Net” forum
- Video games, pro wrestling, and the politics of hypocrisy
- Justine Bateman, Net Neutrality & Celebrity Witnesses
- Crovitz’s Information Age
- a great pronking hearing
- Beware of hot chicks offering chocolate bars
- Can the French really ban pro-thin websites?
- review: Kutner & Olson’s “Grand Theft Childhood”
- another problem for the Zittrain thesis — old people!
- The Perils of Mandatory Parental Controls and Restrictive Defaults
- Shall we censor newspapers “for the children”?
- What would we do without the FCC?
- great piece on online behavioral marketing and privacy
- the Wikipedia Wars continue
- Micropayments reconsidered
- Sunstein’s “libertarian paternalism” is really just paternalism
- Twilight for TV Critics?
- presentation at PSU’s conference on future of video games
- “Spectrum Talk” blog
- Apple, openness, and the Zittrain thesis
- coverage from Tech Policy Summit
- Byron Commission (UK) report – initial thoughts
- “Critical blow” for broadcasters in the ad market?
- Ike Elliott’s “fiber vs. coax” series
- Google’s excellent new online safety campaign
- Palfrey on trends in global cybercensorship
- “Parental Controls and Online Child Protection” – Version 3.0 release
- Tech Policy Summit this week
- “Truth” online
- Lost Laptop Follies, Part 7: NIH Loses Health Records
- review of Zittrain’s “Future of the Internet”
- Do you have the “S.I.G.N.S.” of Net / video game addiction?
- The conversation the Net enables
- Media Metrics: The Pictures!
- Tibet, Technology & the Future of Freedom
- Media Metrics: The Series So Far
- Mermigas on the challenges facing traditional media
- Video Games, Ratings & Transparency: A Response to Jerry Bonner
- Thoughts on 2008 “State of the News Media” report
- IDC’s “Diverse & Exploding Digital Universe” report
- Think you’ve seen everything the Web 2.0 world has to offer?
- USA Today’s story about the Martin FCC
- Lessig on “blowing up the FCC”
- Some books worth reading
- Young kids and rational messaging about online safety
- Media Metrics #7: An Uncertain Future for Newspapers
- Market failure in the sports programming market?
- Jon Fine’s “Requiem for Old-Time Radio”
- “Concurrency modeling” for bandwidth / network management
- Net gambling & online speech / commerce enforcement challenges in general
- Onion News Network on the FCC’s indecency “standard”
- welcoming Bret Swanson & Ryan Radia to the TLF gang
- Media Metrics #6: The Video Revolution
- Putting online dangers in perspective
- Stanford / Google “Legal Futures Summit”
- Australian government online safety report
- Disgraceful defense: “Video Games Made Me Do It”
- new Internet Safety Technical Task Force
- Mobile phone censorship regime coming?
- Which “blockhead” will produce this game once copyright disappears?
- Are All Video Games Violent?
- Net Neutrality: Prelude to Structural Separation?
- Online Sales Tax Cartel?
- 2 good WSJ op-eds on net neutrality dangers
- Scalia on video game regulation
- Leading pornographer lecturing Google & Yahoo about cleaning up online porn
- Coolest. Car. Ever.
- Richard Bennett & George Ou filings on network management
- UK’s “Unique Learner Number”
- PFF Filing on Network Management Practices
- Winback Wars: The Politics of Customer Retention
- Criminal sanctions for poor parental judgment?
- Who decides what’s appropriate for our families?
- New Mexico’s video game nanny tax
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 21): TW spin-off of AOL
- Felten on MS-Google antitrust games
- new PFF-CDT index of free speech / content bills
- TorrentFreak on “Solutions to the BitTorrent Problem”
- Political discourse — then vs. now
- Media Metrics #5: The Competition for Our Ears
- Good for Obama: He favors parental empowerment over censorship
- A La Carte Mandates & Price Controls
- Muni wi-fi: I hate to say I told you so, but..
- Media Metrics #4: Changing Fortunes
- Hazlett on the Microsoft Case at 10
- Google’s political advertising guidelines
- Tech & State of the Union address
- Remembering how lucky we are
- USA Today, age verification, and the death of online anonymity
- for Tim’s reading list about the early telephone system…
- Student free speech or online harassment ?
- “The End of Censorship” — The book I never finished
- Media Metrics #3: Ad Wars
- MagHound: Another interesting new media business model
- Upcoming events: “Tech Policy Summit” (March 26-28)
- Media Metrics #2: Household Access to Media Services & Technologies
- The Danger of “The Danger of Free”
- Broadband metering experiment in the works in Texas?
- Media Metrics #1: Introduction & Analytical Framework
- Only in France…
- Today’s MySpace-AG Agreement
- Industry tech policy blogs proliferating
- While the FCC wages a war on cable…
- FOSI’s “State of Online Safety Report 2008″
- Against “Autonomous Driving”
- Realistic Resolutions for the New Year
- Jaron Lanier’s “Long Live Closed-Source Software!”
- Richard Roeper on regulating in-flight movies
- Broadband UTOPIA?
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 20): News Corp spins off 8 TV stations
- Latest Census Numbers on Kids, Parents & Media
- Does “the public” really communicate with the FCC?
- A Rushed Review for XM-Sirius?
- Internet Freedom–Real vs Imagined
- Should we aim for a higher or lower score for the TLF?
- Tech Ignorance: Not Funny
- Cable TV “Gatekeeper” Myths Debunked
- National Review on FCC’s Cable War
- FCC Budget: Out of Control
- Setting the Record Straight on Current FCC Policies
- Mike Huckabee’s Bizarre Cultural Politics
- NYT’s Joe Nocera on perils of a la carte regulation
- Why hasn’t violent media turned us into a nation of killers?
- Commissioner McDowell’s sensible thinking on media policy
- FCC’s regulatory wrecking ball decimating cable stocks?
- What EarthLink’s muni wi-fi announcement tells us
- Media Deregulation is Dead
- FCC’s 70% Cable Proposal is 100% Unwarranted
- Tim Wu, welcome to the libertarian movement !
- How did the 500-channel TV universe become a reality?
- George Ou on Comcast traffic management and NN
- Bruce Owen on “Antecedents to Net Neutrality”
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 19): IAC/Interactive Corp. divides by 5
- Declan on “Do Not Track List” idea
- Another concern with the “Do Not Track List” concept
- Copps on News Corp-WSJ deal
- Wallsten on metering bandwidth as alternative to Net neutrality
- Did a lack of standardization kill high-def audio?
- Troubling poll regarding attitudes toward Net regulation
- Pearlstein on Google & Antitrust
- Unplugging Plug-and-Play Regulation
- FT on age verification for social networking
- Happy Freedom of Speech Week
- Response to Christian Coalition-NARAL call for net neutrality regs
- Thoughts on Andrew Keen, Part 2: The Dangers of the Stasis Mentality
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 18): Scripps Splits
- Thoughts on Andrew Keen, Part 1: Why an Age of Abundance Really is Better than an Age of Scarcity
- Parental Control Perfection
- Karlgaard on “The Cheap Revolution”
- Should Government Censor In-Flight Movies?
- NY Times Gets it Wrong on IM Blocking & the First Amendment
- Hazlett on the iPhone, walled gardens, and innovation
- New Online Safety Bills
- WSJ on why free Wi-Fi is failing
- The Power of New Media
- More on Metering Broadband
- transcript of Prof. Tribe’s speech on the First Amendment & technological change
- Who Killed TV’s “Family Hour”?
- Once Again, Why Not Meter Broadband Pipes?
- Wi-Fi Piggybacking / Squatting Reconsidered
- New Mobile Parental Controls
- Deregulation that should have happened 10 years ago
- PBS to self-censor WWII documentary to appease FCC
- Problems in Muni Wi-Fi Paradise, Part 5
- Trenching vs. Open Access Regulation
- The WSJ on Beer Pong
- Like.. OMG… “U.S. Americans” are stupid
- Mobile Markets: US v. Europe
- Aspen Summit videos are up
- State Lotteries & Selective Morality about Gambling
- Laurence Tribe on the First Amendment & Technological Change
- NY Times on Video Game Cases
- Lenard & Rubin on Google-DoubleClick
- On “Digital Divides”
- Problems in Muni Wi-Fi Paradise, cont.
- Oh Sh*t: Barbie’s Pooping Dog is a Killer!
- A La Carte: Voluntary vs. Mandatory
- Susan Landau on how FISA is a “gateway for hackers”
- First Amendment & Video Games [Updated] Score: Gamers 11, Censors 0
- Problems in (muni wi-fi) paradise
- editorial on Murdoch-WSJ deal
- PFF analysis of S. 602, “The Child Safe Viewing Act”
- Patrick & Hazlett on Fairness Doctrine
- Portrait of a Criminal Idiot
- Age Verification Showdown in North Carolina
- Version 2.2 of PFF book on “Parental Controls & Online Child Protection”
- Mobile Market Snapshot: U.S. v. Europe
- Senate Plan to Roll Back Clock on Broadcast Regulation
- Wallsten on XM-Sirius Merger
- “Child Safety” — 100 Years Ago vs. Today
- law review article: “Why Regulate Broadcasting?”
- Summary of 10-Part Series on “National Internet Safety Month”
- Internet Safety Month, Part 10: Good Parenting Means Everything!
- Sen. Rockefeller Gives Up on Parenting at Senate Violence Hearing
- New Polls Suggest Radical Theory: Parents are Parenting!
- Internet Safety Month, Part 9: Online Safety and Law Enforcement Efforts
- testimony at House hearing on “The Images Kids See on the Screen”
- new book on Parental Controls & Online Child Protection
- Event Transcript: “The Complexities of Regulating TV Violence”
- Internet Safety Month, Part 8: Social Networking Safety
- Internet Safety Month, Part 7: The Importance of Online Safety Education
- Net gambling: None of the government’s business
- Internet Safety Month, Part 6: A Voluntary Code of Conduct for Online Safety
- Internet Safety Month, Part 5: Search Engine Filters and Portals for Kids
- 2nd Circuit rules in FCC indecency case
- Internet Safety Month, Part 4: Website Labeling and Metadata Tagging
- Internet Safety Month, Part 3: Operating Systems and Web Browser Controls
- Internet Safety Month, Part 2: Internet Filters & Monitoring Tools
- Internet Safety Month, Part 1: Online Safety Metasites
- A La Carte & the Senate Effort to Regulate TV Violence
- Regulate In-Flight Movies & TV Content?
- Lost Laptop Follies, Part 6: DOE Missing 1,400 Laptops
- Making a Stink about Smoking in Movies
- “I don’t really understand what a Web site is.”
- new PFF report & event on regulating TV violence
- Transcript & Video from “Facts about Online Victimization” event
- Transcript of PFF Age Verification (3/23) event
- Second Life to Adopt Age Verification
- A Brief Note on Ad Hominem Attacks on the TLF
- New York Times article on Age Verification for Social Networking Sites
- Video Game Ratings are Widely Utilized
- Lost Laptop Follies, Part 5
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 17): Clear Channel Station Sell-off
- New reports on Skype-Wu wireless Net Neutrality proposal
- Video Game Politics
- Public Radio Debate on Regulating TV Violence
- More Essays on Efforts to Regulate TV Violence
- George Will on Fairness Doctrine Revival
- FCC Violence Report Concludes that Parenting Doesn’t Work
- FCC Media Violence Report Looms
- FCC Opens the Net Neutrality Pandora’s Box a Bit More
- Don Imus and the FCC: Should Hate Speech be Regulated?
- new City Journal essay on “The Media Cornucopia”
- Barney Frank Pushing for Net Gambling Repeal
- FTC’s Latest “Marketing Violence to Children” Report
- More on XM-Sirius
- Internet Sales Tax Wars Continue
- Jeff Schmidt on Age Verification and Online Child Safety
- Confessions of a First Generation Gamer-Parent
- A La Carte Regulation and “Family-Friendly” Programming
- A Few Thoughts on ICANN’s Rejection of “.xxx” TLD
- Forbes.com interview on social networking panic
- The Other America
- Distorting Numbers in the Debate over Parental Controls
- COPA Struck Down (Part 3): Implications for Age Verification & Social Networking
- COPA Struck Down (Part 2): The Effectiveness of Filtering & Age Verification
- COPA Struck Down (Part 1): Again!
- Cisco’s Bob Pepper on Net Neutrality
- Campaign Finance Laws & YouTube (cont.)
- Debunking Myths about Social Networking
- New PFF Study on Age Verification for Social Networking Sites
- Why Not Meter?
- Would Your Favorite Website be Banned by DOPA?
- Remarks at Freedom to Connect conference
- Campaign Finance Laws in the YouTube Age
- Age-Verify Users Before They Visit USA Today.com?
- Chapman on Illogical Gov’t Nannyism
- What Cell Phone Blocking?
- Net Neutrality in the States
- Ahrens on Media Consolidation Myths
- Movie Review: “This Film Is Not Yet Rated”
- Wu, Skype, Walled Gardens and “Openness”
- Dying for Television
- An Education-Based Approach to Online Child Safety
- Additional Concerns with the Skype-Wu Proposal
- “Blogging should not be a crime.”
- Geoffrey Stone on a National Shield Law
- Skype Asks FCC to Impose Carterfone Regs on Wireless
- Help, the Internet Made Me Do It !
- Brito Deconstructs Spectrum Commons Theory
- XM + Sirius = Good Deal (for the Companies and Consumers)
- The Onion on iTunes and Lost Laptops
- Regulating Violence on TV: Some Recommended Reading
- Why I Miss Frank Zappa
- Radio Wars, Round 2
- Thinking Blogger Awards
- Lost Laptop Follies, Part 4
- What Happened to ‘Look Both Ways Before You Cross the Street’?
- “Project Online Safety” and Other New Internet Safety Initiatives
- Why Does FCC Spending Keep Growing?
- Lawyers, Lawsuits and Net Neutrality Regulation
- Peter Huber on Why Lawyers Will Love Net Neutrality
- Democrats Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 2: Regulating “Excessive Violence” on TV
- Democrats Abandoning the First Amendment, Part 1: The Fairness Doctrine
- Slate’s Jack Shafer on “The Case for Killing the FCC”
- Banning In-Car Technologies Won’t Work
- Bret Swanson on Net Neutrality & the “Coming Exaflood”
- PFF’s “Tech Agenda for the 110th Congress”
- MySpace to Provide Parental Monitoring Tools
- Amazing Gains in Digital Storage Technology
- CES Wrap-Up: Cool Upcoming Gadgets
- Dispatch from CES – FCC Chairman Kevin Martin’s remarks
- Dispatch from CES – Day 3 (Net Neutrality Panel)
- Dispatch from CES–Day 3 (Is Packaged Media Dead?)
- Dispatch from CES – Day 2 (Future of TV & Video Distribution)
- Dispatch from CES: Day 1–Gaming Issues
- What Was the Biggest Tech Policy Story of 2006?
- More on Virtual Reality & Property Rights
- A Bad Day in Court for the FCC
- A Sad Commentary
- “Dangerous” Toys–Then and Now
- Declaration of Independence for Virtual Worlds?
- Are Americans Too Paranoid about Their Privacy?
- Another Non-Solution to the Online Predator Problem
- Have We Reached a Turning Point on Video Game Regulation?
- Welcoming Drew Clark to the TLF
- (Virtual) Taxation without Representation?
- CDT & PFF File Joint Amicus Briefs in Federal Indecency Cases
- Appearance on C-SPAN’s “The Communicators”
- First Amendment & Video Games Score: Gamers 10, Censors 0
- Illogical Fears about Online Gaming & Net Neutrality
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 16): Clear Channel Crackup
- My DRM Agnosticism & Indifference toward Media Format Compatibility
- One Laptop Per Child Reconsidered
- Copyright and DMCA to Enter the World of Virtual Reality?
- Nonsense about Predatory Pricing of Video Game Consoles
- Sony’s “Location Free TV”: Any Copyright Issues?
- Democratic “Innovation Agenda” Smells Like Pork, Tastes Like Regulation
- X-Box Movie / TV Download Business Model Announced
- XBOX 360 as a High-Def Movie Hub?
- Lost Laptop Follies, Part 3
- Another Reason to Be Wary of Age Verification & Data Retention Mandates
- NYT on Media Ownership
- Can Government Improve Video Game Ratings?
- Media Deconsolidation (Part 15): AOL-TW Divorce Near?
- Business Week on Net Gambling Going Underground
- Lock ‘Em Up and Throw Away the Key
- Problems in (Muni Wi-Fi) Paradise
- Another Call for Data Retention Mandates
- Iran Battles the Digital Future & Global Culture
- The Ultimate Online Predator Solution
- Virtual Reality Reporters
- National Freedom of Speech Week
- Virtual Reality or Virtual Stupidity?
- A Response to Sen. Lieberman’s Online Child Protection Manifesto
- IM: The Next Regulatory Target?
- The Final Fantasy Leak: Situational Ethics with Video Game Piracy?
- Potential California Regulation of Search Engines?
- Internet Gambling Nuttiness
- Lost Laptop Legislation Introduced
- RAND on Economic Impact of EU’s “TV Without Frontiers” Directive
- How Does Government Lose So Many Laptops?
- Media Deconsolidation, Part 14: Time Warner Without Time?
- My Filing in Latest FCC Indecency Proceeding
- Cartoons for Tech Geeks
- Who Can Film Video Clips at a Pro Football Stadium?
- Summary of Latest ICRA Summit on Internet Free Expression & Child Protection
- Know Your (Blogging) Rights: NetDemocracyGuide.org
- PlayStation 3, Console Wars & the Costs of Complexity
- More on Social Networking Regulatory Threats
- New PFF Study on Global Media Regulation
- Al Gore on Media & Democracy
- Is Verizon’s Chocolate Sweet?
- UK Censors Tom & Jerry Cartoons
- Entertaining Net Neutrality Debate
- FCC Comm. Adelstein on Indecency
- Note to TLF Readers: This Blog Has Nothing to Do With the Intelligent Design Debate
- Welcoming Hancy Haney to the TLF
- The “Adventure Window,” Radio Formats and Media Ownership Rules
- I’d Still Watch MTV if…
- Another Case of “Rights Inflation”: Sports on Cable TV
- Another First Amendment Victory for Video Games
- A Voluntary Online Code of Conduct to Avoid Internet Censorship
- The Economics of Trade Shows & the Downsizing of “E3″
- Video Games & Innovation
- Another Push for Cable Censorship
- A Psychological Explanation for Censorship and Claims of “Media Bias”
- Just How Inefficient Is Universal Service?
- Fun Fact of the Day: Flat Panel Prices Plummet
- Microsoft XBOX Live & Net Neutrality
- eBay-Google Battle Over Online Payments
- China’s Latest Media Censorship Target is a Disaster (Literally!)
- Mandatory Data Retention: How Much is Appropriate?
- Remarks at Conference on Social Networking & Child Protection
- An Indecency Regime for Video Games?
- President Signs Indecency Bill
- Reflections on Brussels Summit on Future of Free Expression / Child Protection
- Media Deconsolidation, Part 13: Tribune Considering Major Downsizing
- Reflections on “Beyond Censorship” Summit
- Media Deconsolidation, Part 12: Time Warner President Calls Synergy “Bull—t”
- Competition Works: An Analysis of Competing Cable-Telco “Triple-Play” Packages
- Is This Where America’s Campaign Finance Laws Are Heading?
- op-ed on MySpace bill (”DOPA”)
- Internet Filters Reconsidered
- Hillary Clinton, Net Neutrality Regulation & the Great Leap of Faith
- WSJ Article on FCC Indecency Complaints
- What Does Broadcast Censorship Accomplish?
- Skype Now Free Domestically
- Report from the “E3″ (Video Game Industry) Trade Show
- How Net Neutrality Regs Could Threaten Online High-Def Video
- Why Communications and Media Markets Will Probably Never Be Deregulated
- Net Neutrality = A Financial Services Industry Free-Ride?
- Some Thoughts on the New Senate Telecom Reform Draft
- EVENT: GMU Spectrum Discussion Featuring Vernon Smith (tomorrow 4:00)
- EVENT: PFF’s “Internet Security Summit” (May 10th, 9-5)
- Cellular Content Controls
- Do You Really “Save the Internet” By Regulating It?
- A Paranoid Parent Ponders GPS Tracking His Kids
- So You Still Believe in Infrastructure Socialism?
- Parents Have Many Tools to Combat Objectionable Content
- Selective Morality at PTC?
- Let’s Consider the Facts Before We Call In Government to Regulate Video Games
- New FTC Survey Shows Video Game Enforcement Improving
- Sen. Brownback Turns Up the Heat on the Video Game Industry
- WB’s Move Shows Why Government Content Controls Are Doomed
- The 6 Myths Driving the Push for Video Game Regulation
- Memo to Tom Cruise: Just Ignore What Offends You
- The FCC’s Indecency Bomb: Why it Might Be the Beginning of the End of All Broadcast Content Regulation
- They Say Newspapers Are Dead, But…
- Reed Hundt on Telecom Mergers: From “Unthinkable” to “You Want ‘em Big” in Less than 10 Years!
- Possible Conditions on the AT&T-Bell South Deal
- A Few Snooty Words about Technological Etiquette
- Sen. Rockefeller’s Cable Censorship Bill Could Be Considered in Senate
- Thoughts on the Future of Content Controls (Both Public & Private)
- No More Morbid Fun With Telemarketers
- More on New FCC A La Carte Report
- Initial Thoughts on the FCC’s Revised A La Carte Report
- The SlingBox, Space-Shifting and the Future of Broadcasting
- E-Mail to Expire in the Year 2157?
- A Friendly Conversation about Corporate High-Tech Engagement with China
- Do Parents Have the Tools to Control TV Content?
- Two New Editorials on A La Carte
- Let’s hope the Blackberry patent dispute doesn’t take this long to resolve!
- Family-Friendly Tiering as Censorship
- Is Parental Responsibility Dead?
- A “Voluntary” Charade: The “Family-Friendly Tier” Case Study
- A La Carte as Censorship
- CRS Report on Applying Indecency Regs to Cable
- A La Carte: Moral Aspects of the Debate
- More Bad News for Old Media
- The Video Revolution Just Keeps Rollin’ Along
- Google Print and Transaction Cost-Based Analysis for Fair Use Law
- Media Deconsolidation, Part 11: Knight Ridder’s Coming Crackup
- Is Convergence Nothing But Hype?
- Questions about FCC Indecency Numbers
- The Real Net Neutrality Debate: Pricing Flexibility Versus Pricing Regulation
- Our Coming Wireless World
- OT: My Annual Anti-Soccer Rant
- Sen. Coleman’s Effort to Stop a “U.N. for the Internet”
- More Signs of the Impending Death of Content Controls
- WSJ editorial: “The World Wide Web (of Bureaucrats)”
- The RIAA – Satellite Radio Royalty Spat: What is the “Fair” Price of Music?
- Yahoo as a Media Slayer
- And the Oscar Goes to…
- Google, Do You Really Want to Be a Telecom Company?
- Fighting Overseas IP Piracy with Price Discrimination: Will It Work?
- New PFF Paper on ICANN Dispute over New “.xxx” Domain
- Blockbuster and Video Rental Industry, Part 3: The Beginning of the End?
- Long Live Public Interest Regulation! Some Initial Thoughts Regarding the Broadband Video Provisions of the House Telecom Act Discussion Draft
- New Blogs on Media Industry / Media Economics
- More Thoughts on eBay-Skype Merger and What It Means for Net Neutrality Debate in Particular
- Cable Ownership Caps Reconsidered
- Do Markets Work? Comparing Computing and Communications over the Past Decade
- The Coming FCC Push for Cable Censorship
- Fighting Stupidity with Censorship
- What Does the Future Hold for the Television Industry?
- A Sin Tax for Online Porn?
- Are Parents Powerless to Self-Censor Media Content?
- A Refresher Course on the Pitfalls of A La Carte Regulation
- Cell Phones on Planes: A Federal Matter?
- It Takes a Village To Raise A Video Gamer: Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Regulate Video Games
- Public Broadcasting Subsidies: Welfare for the Rich and Well-Educated
- Is Google Evil? The Never-Ending Search for High-Tech Villainy
- Supreme Court Strikes Major Blow to Property Rights
- Muni Wi-Fi Systems & Crowding-Out Concerns
- My TCS Article on “What Ever Happened to the Big Media Boogeyman?”
- Miami Herald Article on Impact of the PTC in Censorship Debate
- Media Deconsolidation, Part 10: Viacom’s Breakup Official
- Supreme Court Rejects Media Ownership Case–What’s Next?
- “Media Myths” Book is Finally Out!
- Google Is a Media Company… and the Biggest One in the World
- From Luxury Good to Disposable Item (Parts 2 & 3): A $30 Disposable Video Camera and a $1400 Plasma Television
- PBS “News on Demand” Report Highlights Amazing Media Changes
- Washington Post op-ed on Expanded Censorship Threat
- Media Deconsolidation, Part 9: Viacom’s Split
- Ben Compaine on Media’s “New Western Frontier”
- 10 Million Blogs and Counting
- Stephen Gray of the Christian Science Monitor on the Marvels of the Modern Media Age
- Have a Contractual Dispute? Run to the FCC!
- Reflections on the Death of Old Media
- Media Deconsolidation, Part 8: Time Warner Spin Off of AOL Likely
- Commissioner Gloom-and-Doom and His Amazing Media Diversity Deception
- More on the Potential for Cellphone Content Controls
- Analysis of Latest Cable Censorship Bill (S. 946: “The Kid-Friendly TV Programming Act”)
- Ben Compaine’s New Media Blog
- Media Deconsolidation, Parts 6 & 7: Emmis & Disney Divestitures
- Your Soapbox is My Soapbox! Thoughts on the Media Access Movement in General and the Media & Democracy Coalition’s “Bill of Media Rights” in Particular
- new Ben Compaine / NMRC report on “The Media Monopoly Myth”
- Blogging & Campaign Finance Law: A Simple (Probably Too Simple!) Solution
- Media Deconsolidation, Part 5: “Clear Channel to Dismantle Media Empire”
- Will A Wireless Ratings Scheme Be Enough to Head Off Cellphone Censorship?
- How Google and the Internet Are Challenging Traditional Media
- “Hill Ponders Regulating Convergence”: A Note on the Proper Way to Solve “Level Playing Field” Concerns
- New PFF Analysis of S. 616, the “Indecent and Gratuitous and Excessively Violent Programming Control Act of 2005″
- More on Cellphone TV Regulation
- Your Telephone Company Will Be Your Next Cable Company
- Do Regulators Read the Papers? The Blockbuster Antitrust Fiasco Revisited
- From Luxury Item to Disposable Good: The Amazing $29 DVD Player
- The Pitfalls of Wi-Fi Municipalization
- Media Deconsolidation, Part 4: Is News Corp. Next to Downsize?
- Blog Inflation: Sajak, Streisand, Shatner
- What Counts As “Criminal” Speech?
- If You Mandate It, They Will Come… Maybe
- Still More on Media Deconsolidation
- More on Media (De)Consolidation
- The Radio “Monopoly” Myth
- Red Lion R.I.P.: FCC Declares the Scarcity Doctrine Dead
- Stop This Insane Media De-Consolidation!
- “The Device That Ate Everything”
- Blocking Blockbuster
- Will 2005 Be the Year That Congress Censors Cable and Satellite TV?
- Is Cell Phone Censorship Around the Corner?
- Hillary Clinton Wants a V-Chip in Your I-Pod
- The Saving Private Ryan Censorship “Precedent”?
- Introducing the Center for Digital Media Freedom
- Will Broadband Carriers Block VoIP?
- New Cato study on DRM & P2P
- Merger Mania and the Nature of Network Competition
- Virginia & Telecom Tax Reform: A Note on the Morality of Taxing Telecommunications & Information Services
- “Google-Zon,” Rise of the Machines, and the Future of Media
- When Capitalists Go Bad: Some Reflections on Cable Franchising, “Red-lining,” and “Level Playing Fields”
- Tiny P2P: Who Will the Industry Sue Now?
- Playing (Video) Games in Illinois
- Should Computer Software Receive Copyright Protection?
- Parents Television Council = Not Good Parents
- God Hates Cable Regulation
- Universal Service Follies Continue
- What the Election Results Mean for the First Amendment
- MPAA Lawsuits Against File Sharers
- Wi-Fi as a Public Good
- Wireless Substitution Continues
- Again, it’s all “For the Children”–FCC Fines Stations for Kids’ Commercials
- Induce Act event at Cato (video now online)
- Sinclair Backs Down; National Catastrophe Avoided
- Two Important FCC Broadband Orders
- Induce Act debate at Cato (Oct. 20, 11:00)
- Those Wacky Chinese Regulators Are At It Again
- The Sinclair Anti-Kerry Documentary
- Howard Stern and the Future of Media Censorship
- AT&T Going Down Fast
- PFF Report Blasts SSTP Net Taxation Scheme
- Is Live Radio & TV a Thing of the Past?
- Wi-Fi as a Public Utility: What are the Costs?
- The “Rathergate” Incident: Remembering Why Separation of Press and State Is Vital
- Tech News of the Weird: Drink While You Vote!
- Birth of “Silicon Square” is Bad News
- Senate hearing / testimony on media ownership
- Sen. McCain’s Plan to Liberate the Broadcast Spectrum
- Campaign Finance Fiasco Spreads to the Net
- Are TV Audience Measures a Pressing Governmental Interest?
- More on Oracle-PeopleSoft decision
- Sensible Spectrum Auctions
- Lessig vs. Rosen on Net Porn Regulation
- Brian Cooley on Spam Non-Crisis
- Bush (Non-) Record on Tech Policy
- Once again, it’s all “for the children” (FCC’s “Kid Zone”)
- Congressional tech agenda for rest of year = just more regulation
- L.A.-area censorship event with Penn of Penn & Teller
- Life, liberty, and the right to speedily download porn and P2P music
- Business Week Prescribes More Forced Sharing for Broadband
- But “It’s for the Children!”–The Violent Stupidity of Regulating Violence in Media
- DMCA Will Not Keep You From Opening Your Garage Door
- A “Broadcast Flag” for Radio?
- What We’re Reading: Debora Spar’s “Ruling the Waves”
- DOJ Appeals Important Broadband Case to Supreme Court
- Is DRM the Devil? The Debate over Digital Rights Management, Trusted Computing and Fair Use in Copyright Law
- Antitrust Barriers to IP Protection
- Korean Recipe for Broadband Success
- France vs. Yahoo, Round 3
- What We’re Reading: Landes & Posner’s “Economic Structure of Intellectual Property Law”
- Do Online Casinos Have Free Speech Rights?
- Where Blogging is a Crime
- What We’re Reading: Five Tech Policy Classics
- The Miracle of Life (and Modern Communications)
- Copyright and Television Shows: The Boxing Match Between NBC and Fox
- So you say nothing has changed in the telecom world?
- Mandatory national IDs on the way… for cows
- News of the Weird–Video Games for Food Stamp Recipients
- Luddite of the Month Award (Hall of Fame Inductee: Ernest “Fritz” Hollings)
- What We’re Reading: Daniel Kimmel’s “The Fourth Network”
- Net Jurisdiction and Censorship Revisited
- Buffy Escapes the Censors
- The Telecom Act of 2006 – What Should It Look Like?
- Excellent New Primer on Digital Copyright Issues
- The (Non-) Impact of the Coming Elections on Tech Policy
- Welcome to the TLF !
