Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
From Cato’s “Job Opportunities” page: Policy Analyst, Telecommunications and Internet Governance The Cato Institute seeks a policy analyst to work on telecommunications and Internet governance issues. The suitable candidate will have several years of work experience in the field of telecommunications and Internet law and policy. An advanced degree in law or economics is preferred [...]
Late last week, I did a Cato podcast on the D.C. Circuit’s decision finding that Congress hasn’t given the FCC authority to regulate Internet access. Adam says it’s good and I should post it. I say it’s alright and OK, Adam, I will. One final point: I don’t like the white space that appears when [...]
I was reminiscing last night with my Cato Institute colleague Dan Mitchell about a favorite TLF post of mine: the Persuade-o-Meter. Woo! I slay me! Dan is very excited about the blue curtain that Santa Claus brought him for Christmas. It matches the ties of his two favorite recent presidents. And he made this video [...]
The Washington Post reports that the Obama administration is delaying the Bush Administration plan to require federal contractors to use the E-Verify worker background check system. Criticizing the move, Lamar Smith (R-TX), ranking minority member on the House Judiciary Committee says, “It is ironic that at the same time President Obama was pushing for passage [...]
You wouldn’t think that a book called In Search of Jefferson’s Moose could be about the Internet, but it is. In his book, In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace, Temple University Law Professor David Post draws remarkable and entertaining parallels between the Internet and the natural and intellectual landscape that [...]
The video of last week’s Cato policy forum can be viewed here. (Check out TLFer Jerry Brito’s fine presentation.) If your preference is for a briefer taste of the transparency issues, a podcast with Ed Felten recorded that day is here:
(Before you finish reading this, if you’re in D.C., you’ll want to sign up for this policy forum.) Ben Goddard’s most recent column in The Hill is called “Obama Marketing Lesson,” and he reviews how the Internet and savvy use of media energized President-Elect Obama’s campaign effort. “[S]ocial networks have returned as one of the [...]
The Federal Trade Commission has announced that it will hold “a series of public hearings beginning on December 5, 2008, in Washington, D.C., to explore the evolving market for intellectual property (IP).” It’s timely, then, that we will be having a forum Monday on a provocative book whose thesis is the title: Against Intellectual Monopoly. [...]
If you find the title of this post provocative, you’ll be interested in a Cato Institute book forum on Friday, October 10th. In The Crime of Reason, Nobel laureate in physics Robert Laughlin argues that intellectual property laws and government security demands threaten the development of new knowledge. Without change, we risk bequeathing our heirs [...]
February 14, 2012
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