Create Internet Regulation, Insert Camel into Tent

February 15, 2012

After once determining that Net Neutrality policy questions meant that network providers could keep related shareholder statements off of voting ballots, the SEC did an about face earlier this month and ordered AT&T to allow the following shareholder statement for vote: The proposal requests that AT&T “publicly commit to operate its wireless broadband network consistent [...]

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Video: Cleland Says U.S. Needs Metamorphosis in Comms Law to Boost Economic Growth

February 13, 2012

Though this was shot this Fall, it’s still timely.  Says NetCompetition’s Scott Cleland, if the U.S. wants economic growth, outdated communications laws must experience a metamorphosis, allowing markets, products and services to truly innovate.

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Peer Group / Best Practices Regulation as Potential Solution to Online Piracy

February 9, 2012

While attending a major Washington Internet policy conference last month, it became clear to me that both sides of the online piracy debate were talking past each other.  I know that this was just before the bills SOPA / PIPA blew up, and that both sides were playing hard to keep their positions on the Hill [...]

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Dumb Tweet Tumblrs Out of Ungrateful Partisan’s Keyboard

February 7, 2012

This is a disheartening, though not unexpected, tweet from Tumblr’s Andrew McLaughlin this weekend: “Democrats: Don’t cede the future! GOP is starting to steal the pro-Internet, pro-innovation, pro-free-speech agenda…” I guess this is either a freak-out of sorts, or an alter-world response to the fact that significant numbers of conservative activists helped progressives last month [...]

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Be Careful What You Wish For – SOPA and the 1st Amendment

January 31, 2012

Free Press, and similar groups who want to put the 1st Amendment on its tail and let the government police private speech so that it’s “fair and balanced,” has been screaming of late about how PACs “corrupted” the SOPA debate.  What this roughly translates into – legal resources used to promote points of view they don’t [...]

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Copyleft & Copyright – Come Together, Right Now…Over BITAG (?)

January 26, 2012

As we move past the wreckage of last week’s SOPA / PIPA battle in Congress – one which defeated, for the time being, legislation designed to stop foreign, online “pirates” – it is important to note that, though the Internet “spoke” resoundingly against the bills, a plain fact remains: Piracy, aided by, yes, the Internet, [...]

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Anonymous Thuggery – Will the Edge Police Its Brethren and Earnestly Work to Protect Property Online?

January 20, 2012

Media outlets report that the hacktavist group Anonymous brought down the websites of the DoJ, FBI, RIAA, MPAA, and others yesterday in supposed retaliation for the high-profile arrest of four accused online pirates associated with the cyberlocker company Megaupload, and, ostensibly, Congress’ efforts to pass online, anti-piracy legislation SOPA and PIPA. The backlash to the [...]

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Regulators & Their Pince-Nez Thinking

January 19, 2012

Over the past several days, the President, trying to shake off some of his Big Government inclinations, has been beating the drum about making government more streamline and efficient. Standing in the East Room of the White House last week, President Obama noted: …[T]he government we have is not the government we need…We live in [...]

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The Value of Connections – Promoting Vulture Capitalism via Subterranean Latticework

January 18, 2012

The chart, “Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) SOPA List,” is by Terry Hart.  It shows how the Internet’s elite have highly organized an amazing subterranean latticework of connections to oppose the anti-piracy bills SOPA and PIPA, among other pro-private property initiatives here in DC and elsewhere across the globe. According to Hart: …The chart includes [...]

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Free Press, Upset That Big Media Wants to Protect Its Private Property, Throws Hissy-Fit

January 13, 2012

The twitter-sphere is choked with Free Press’ latest panicked entreaty – one urging the defeat of Congress’ latest effort to curb online piracy through the House’s so-called SOPA bill. Says a couple of tweets: SOPA is everywhere on the Internet and nowhere on the nightly news. End the #SOPA blackout: http://t.co/yDbDuYqN via @freepress Mainstream media [...]

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