I’ve posted a long article on Forbes.com this morning on the Global Network Initiative. A non-profit group aimed at improving human rights though the agency of information technology companies, GNI has never really gotten off the ground. Since its formal launch in 2008, following two years of negotiations among tech companies, human rights groups and [...]
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AT&T and T-Mobile: The Antitrust Terrorists
March 21st, 2011
In the rush of ink that flowed yesterday over AT&T’s announced merger with T-Mobile USA, I posted a long piece on CNET calling for calm, reasoned analysis of the deal by regulators, chiefly the Department of Justice and the FCC. Since the details of the deal have yet to be fleshed out, it’s hard to [...]
Updates to the Media Page
March 10th, 2011
2011 has already been filled with important developments in the technology world, and I continue to be a regular source for journalists as well as publishing frequent editorials and analyses of my own. I’ve just posted several new items to the Media Page of my website, including articles I’ve written for CNET News.com and for [...]
Congress moves forward on spectrum…inventory
March 3rd, 2011
I’ve written posts today for both CNET and Forbes on legislation introduced yesterday by Senators Olympia Snowe and John Kerry that would require the FCC and NTIA to complete inventories of existing spectrum allocations. These inventories were mandated by President Obama last June (after Congress failed to pass legislation), but got lost at the FCC [...]
Congress Zeroes in on FCC’s Net Neutrality Order
February 23rd, 2011
Following up on my Congressional testimony last week, I’ve written two articles on how the House and Senate are moving forward with plans to undo the FCC’s December 23,2010 “Open Internet” order, aka net neutrality. For Forbes, I write about the experience of being a witness before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, [...]
Two Years on the Internet Equals an Eternity
February 7th, 2011
Video is now available for all of the excellent programming at this year’s State of The Net 2011 conference. (Programming will also be available over time on C-SPAN’s video library.) The Conference, organized by the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus, featured Members of Congress, leading academics, Administration, agency, and Congressional staff and other [...]
Doing Nothing to Save the Internet
January 31st, 2011
My essay last week for Slate.com (the title I proposed is above, but it must have been too “punny” for the editors) generated a lot of feedback, for which I’m always grateful, even when it’s hostile and ad hominem. Which much of it was. The piece argues generally that when it comes to the Internet, [...]
Badges? We don’t need no stinking badges: Reading the FCC’s Net Neutrality Order (Part V)
January 26th, 2011
(Follow the links for Part I, Part II, Part III and Part IV.) In this final post on the FCC’s Dev. 23, 2010 Open Internet Report and Order, I’ll look briefly at the problematic legal foundation on which the FCC has built its new regulations on broadband Internet access. That discussion need only be brief [...]
TechFreedom Launches to “Promote the Progress of Technology”
January 25th, 2011
I’m pleased to join in announcing the launch of TechFreedom, a non-profit, non-partisan technology policy think tank. TechFreedom’s mission is “to promote the progress of technology that improves the human condition and expands individual capacity to choose.” I have agreed to participate in TechFreedom’s activities as a Senior Adjunct Fellow. As my first contribution, we [...]
Congress’s Tech Agenda: Something Old, Something Older
January 20th, 2011
I reported for CNET yesterday on highlights from the State of The Net 2011 conference, sponsored by the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus. Though I didn’t attend last year’s event, I suspect much of the conversation hasn’t changed. For an event that took place nearly a month after the FCC’s “final” vote on [...]