Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Berin recently encouraged me to re-read Thomas Sowell’s The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy, which I hadn’t looked at since I first read it back in 1995 or 96. I’m glad I did since Sowell’s work has always been profoundly influential on my thinking (especially his masterpiece, A [...]
In this installment of our Privacy Solutions Series, we’ll be taking a look at the privacy-related features in the most popular browser in use today, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Specifically, we’ll be examining the most recent version of the browser, IE 8, Release Candidate 1.
“Damn their lies and trust your eyes. Dig every kind of fox!” I here sing one for the freedom to mix it up as you and your honey alone see fit: “Hapa” means “mixed race” in Hawaiian. Skin-tone mash ups have profoundly enriched my life, first with the Honolulu Hapa herself and then with our [...]
Tim Lee has been taking some heat here from Richard Bennett and Steve Schultze about various aspects of his new Net neutrality paper. I haven’t had much time this week to jump into these debates, but I did want to mention one important portion of Tim’s paper that is being overlooked. Specifically, I like the [...]
The Federal Communications Commission began a broad inquiry of intercarrier compensation in 2001 and now it may finally be getting around to acting on it on Nov. 4 while everyone’s thoughts are on something else. This is about 12 years overdue. Congress in 1996 foresaw that implicit phone subsidies were unsustainable and ordered the FCC [...]
Barack Obama argues that John McCain “hurt everyday workers with his longtime support for deregulation,” according to Politico. Thomas Frank adds, There is simply no way to blame [the failure of several large financial institutions], as Republicans used to do, on labor unions or over-regulation. No, this is the conservatives’ beloved financial system doing what [...]
TCS Daily on June 18 ran an essay by me on regulatory policy. I excerpt thus: In a sense, both models – market and regulatory — are flawed. But there is a difference. For every theory contending that markets fail, there is usually an answering argument that they tend to self-correct. Once, economic theory worried [...]
I can’t let the week end without calling attention to a Bloomberg article on Republican outrage over the FCC’s cession to Google’s petition for “gaming” the spectrum rules. At Tuesday’s House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet, Molly Peterson reports that: Rep. John Shimkus (IL) asked whether Google had “duped” the FCC [...]
February 13, 2012
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