About Braden Cox
Braden Cox is Policy Counsel at the Association for Competitive Technology and at NetChoice, where he focuses on public policy issues regarding e-commerce, online safety, and IT business models. Braden is a former OS/2 network administrator and is a "double-dawg," obtaining both his undergraduate finance degree and law degree from the University of Georgia. Despite his love of digital technology, he maintains an affinity for analog in the form of vinyl records. He lives in the District but enjoys getting out of the city to hike, bike and explore away from cell phone coverage.Posts by Braden Cox
- John McCain’s Tech Policy Unveiled Today
- A Boon for Copyright’s Biggest Holders?
- Download and Be “Green”
- Regulatory Models that Promote and Prevent Business Models (Or, Don’t *Only* Believe the Public Interest Hype!)
- The Future of Event Ticket Reselling: Price Caps, Taxes and Venue Control
- No Fireworks at Today’s Online Ads Hearing
- Small Business Hearing on Internet Ads
- Paperless Tickets - Not so Convenient
- Online Sellers Shouldn’t Be Liable for the Stolen Goods Sold on Their Sites
- Abuse of Power? Competition Commissioner that Pushes “Smart Business Decisions”
- Internet Safety - Good Approach and Bad Approach
- Sovereign Wealth Funds - Nothing to See Here, Move On
- Overstock Sues to Overturn Overreaching New York Sales Tax Law
- Overstock.com Pulls its New York Ads to Avoid Expanded (and likely Unconstitutional) Sales Tax
- New York’s Ambitious Sales Tax Law — Broader than Amazon and the Internet?
- Games Google Plays: The Psychology of the Spectrum Auction
- OOXML: The Integrity of a Standards Body
- The OOXML Standard Brouhaha
- Same Old Song & Dance for Telecom & VoIP Regulation
- We Need the Money! Don’t Politicize Foreign Investment
- Age Verification a Favorite in State Legislatures
- “Community Conscious” Internet Service Providers
- Behavioral Marketing - Like or Hate it, but Regulate it?
- Rhode Island Reacts to Hannah Montana Hype
- Big Brother Speed Control
- For 2008, Online Speech Looks to Get Less Free Overseas
- Missouri Possible: Show Us the Way to Best Deal with Internet Harassment
- A Free Speech Playbook for American Companies Doing Business Overseas
- Copyright and the University: An Academic Symposium
- Got ICT? The Digital Revolution as Productivity Fortifier
- Flawed Online Dating Bill Moves in New Jersey
- Enlightening Some of the Closed Thinking about Openness
- Should Online Marketplaces be the Trademark Police?
- Unsavory Domain Tasting - ICANN Starts to Take Action
- What Should ICANN do about WHOIS?
- My Name. My Language. My Internet.
- Don’t Politicize Foreign Direct Investment in 3Com
- The Future is Now - Feeling the Need to Defend the Desktop
- Is a Temporary Moratorium on Internet Taxes Better for Keeping Pace with New Technologies?
- Space Shifting: A New Frontier for Innovation and Cool Stuff…Or a Black Hole of Lawsuits?
- Let’s Face It: Education is Key to Keep Kids Safe Online
- The CFI Microsoft Decision - Affirming European Antitrust Activism
- Open, Closed or Somewhere In-Between? The Future of ICT and Software Innovation
- For Continued Microsoft Oversight, Antitrust is Increasingly on Thin Ground
- Competitor Prattle & State AG Meddling Should Not Define Competition Policy
- Localizing the Lisbon Strategy – How to Cultivate Innovation Ecosystems
- Kielbasa, Cabbage and the Krynica Economic Forum
- “First Sale” Doctrine - Keep it to “Sale” and Don’t Extend it to “Use”
- Age & Parental Verification: How Not to Keep Kids Safe on the Internet
- Transformers the Movie - More Cynical than Meets the Eye?
- Is Apple Rewarding the Tip CUPS or Taking from the Penny Tray?
- Celebrate Free Software, Boo the Government Preferences & Regulatory Intervention Favoring It
- Is Censorship a Trade Barrier?
- Protectionism 2.0 - Or, the Rise of the New Mercantilists
- Google This: Antitrust Ain’t Your Friend
- Open Source Software Developers: Cheaper by the Dozen?
- Social Networking Bill Moves in North Carolina
- The Achilles Heel of Social Networking Age Verification in the Tar Heel State
- Like E-Commerce? Check Out 60 Minutes this Sunday
- EMI Removes DRM, Offers DFM - Evidence of the Market Working?
- GPL v.3 - I Care Because Markets Care
- GPL 3.0: v. (for Vendetta)
- Illinois Online Dating Bill Defeated
- FLOSSers: Faster, Richer…and Better Looking?
- Discouraged Advocate Seeks Legislators that Refuse to Coddle
- FLOSS: The Software Hare that Beats the Proprietary Turtle?
- There must be a pony in here somewhere…
- It’s Time to Liberalize International Air Travel
- If You Can’t Be with the ICANN You Love, then Love the ICANN You’re With
- EC FLOSS Report Installment #3: Where are the FLOSS Developers?
- Will the EU Adopt FLOSS to Better Compete Against the U.S.?
- Georgia Hearing on Social Networking Bill
- EC FLOSS Study Introduction: Adopt FLOSS, Innovate, and Beat the U.S.
- No UN Aspirations for Supreme Internet Governor (For Now)
- MLK–Let [Technology Help] Freedom Ring
- YouTube - A Viable End Run of FCC Indecency Rules?
- Uploading vs. Downloading - A Future Issue for Net Neutrality?
- More Governments Choosing ODF
- Antitrust Policy - on YouTube?
- Microsoft and Novell - Exacerbating an Ideological Divide?
- Microsoft and Novell: Understanding the IP Implications
- Interesting Stuff from IGF
- The Entrepreneurial Imperative Should be a Categorical U.S. Policy Imperative
- Commission On Virginia Courts In The 21st Century: Using IT To Benefit All, To Exclude None
- Buying Tickets Online
- How Much Should Borders Matter? The Senate’s Tax Jurisdiction Hearing
- Adobe & PDF: From Open Standard to Double Standard to Double Talk?
- Adobe vs. Microsoft III: Open Standards Lose?
- A Pro-DRM FCC Commissioner
- Openness To the Extreme - France and DRM
- Hill Lunch Event on Telecom Reform
- DOJ/FTC Workshop on Competition Policy and the Real Estate Industry
- More Thoughts on the House Telecom Act Discussion Draft
- ICANN Vote on .xxx Delayed
- Regulation’s Price on Small Tech Companies
- Defining Consumer Choice in a Converged Network Economy
- Dangers of World Internet Governance - Lessons from the Proposed Domain for Adult Content
- Grokster: No Impetus for New Copyright Legislation
- Digital TV: Where’s the Transition?
- You don’t have to go to Philadelphia to see a Liberty Belle
- Regulation vs. Markets for Software Liability, Security & Insurance
- It’s the Hard Knock Life for Orphan Works
- One Bundle, Many Antitrust Laws: The Dilemma for Digital Products
- The Public Interest Tax on Communications
- NAB 2005
- The Telecom Mergers Food Fight - Animal House II
- The Level 3 Petition - More Harm Than Good
- 2005 Economic Report of the President
- Protecting Digital Property With Intellectual Contract
- FCC Budget Increases Again
- Municipal Wireless as Unfair Competition
- CEI Releases Study on Phone Competition; FCC done with UNE-P (Yeah you know me)
- Open Standards vs. IBM - Remembering the MicroChannel Architecture
- Do We Really Want to Bridge the “Digital Divide”? The FCC E-rate Tax Might Be “E-Wrong?”
- A Victory for E-commerce - Online Real Estate Listings
- International “Best Practices” for Broadband
- Hey, State PUC! Get your damn hands off VoIP!
- The Price of Rural Living
- FCC’s Green Light for More Broadband
- FCC & VoIP - Powergrabbing Preemption
- The Need for Technology-Centric Laws - Spyware
- Yoran’s Departure - A New Impetus For Cyber-Security Regulation?
- FTC Authentication Summit - Industry Gathering or First Step Towards Government Regulation?
- Money for Nothin’ and your Cell Phone for Free - I want my PUC
- The Economics of Self-Help and Self-Defense in Cyberspace
- Was the Internet’s Birthday Really Last Week?
- I-SPY vs. SPY ACT
- A Rapidly Developing Market in Music Downloading
- FCC Economists on Intercarrier Compensation
- A Terror Tariff on Technology?
- Internet as internet - Government no longer a Stranger in a Strange Land
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