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The Battle Over Spectrum Intensifies
January 31, 2012, 11:56amThe bureaucrats at the Federal Communications Commission are set to make their play at picking wireless spectrum winners and losers.
Save the Net
Abolish the FCC
December 22, 2011Because there exists no area of human activity that couldn't benefit from more paternalistic attention ... Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the Federal Communications Commission to your Web browser.
Rethinking Telecom Regulation from the Ground Up
November 10, 2011, 12:59pmHas the digital economy reached a point where all ex ante regulations should be discarded?
Three top free-market policy experts think so. The need for a uniform ex post approach to overseeing the Internet sector as a whole was the rough consensus of yesterday's panel, A New Framework the FCC, sponsored in Washington by The Mercatus Center of George Mason University.
The Reluctant Regulator
What does FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Really Think About Net Neutrality?
March 1, 2011Congress has already begun to engage the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over its network neutrality policy. The House Energy and Commerce Commission is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a resolution opposing the new rules. “The last thing we need, in my view, is the FCC serving as Internet traffic controller,” said House Speaker John Boehner in a speech on Sunday.
The Year 2010 in IT Outsourcing, Network Neutrality, and Federal Broadband
Telecommunications Chapter of Annual Privatization Report 2010
February 25, 2011This section of Reason Foundation's Annual Privatization Report 2010 provides an overview of hot topics in technology outsourcing and telecommunications policy. Topics include:
- IT outsourcing in state governments,
- Cloud computing and the future of IT outsourcing,
- the national Network Neutrality debate, and
- an analysis of the FCC's new National Broadband Plan.
The Rise of Cybercollectivism
Progressives look for a “master switch” to produce their ideal Internet.
February 11, 2011
The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, by Tim Wu, Knopf, 366 pages, $27.95
Most cyberlaw tracts or Internet policy books today lament a world full of corporate conspiracies, closed systems, “kill switches,” and squashed consumer rights. The world loves a good tale of villainy and misery, and that’s exactly what Tim Wu, a professor at Columbia Law School, delivers in The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires.
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February 8th, 2012 - Mike Riggs Discusses MegaUpload, Niall Ferguson, & Tim Tebow on Alyona's Happy Hour
February 7th, 2012 - Arab Spring Update: Freedom House's Arch Puddington on How 2012 Will Be Like 1989.
February 6th, 2012 - FDR, The New Deal and The Expansion of Federal Power with Authors Burton and Anita Folsom
February 3rd, 2012 - Anthony Randazzo Talks Insider Trading Laws and Bernanke's "Do No Harm" on Freedom Watch
February 3rd, 2012 - China and Transportation: What We Can Learn in the United States
February 2nd, 2012 - Peter Suderman Talks Romney Flip Flops on Freedom Watch
February 2nd, 2012 - LA Forces Condoms onto Porn Actors! (Nanny of the Month, Jan 2012)
February 1st, 2012 - Heather Donahue on Growing Marijuana, Life After 'Blair Witch,' and the Beauty of 'Grey' Markets
January 31st, 2012 - Why Geezers Are Occupy Wall Street's True Enemies
January 30th, 2012 - Veronique de Rugy Talks So-Called Spending Cuts on Stossel
January 30th, 2012 - There is Hope for Education in America! Andrew Campanella Tells Us Why
January 27th, 2012 - California Taxes Rank Worst in US: Tim Cavanaugh Discusses on Good Day LA
January 27th, 2012 - 3 Reasons Not to Get Worked Up Over Super PACs
January 26th, 2012 - Matt Welch Discusses the Buffett Rule and His Favorite Beatles Songs on Varney & Co.
January 26th, 2012 - 3 Supreme Court Decisions to Watch
January 25th, 2012 - Julian Morris Discusses Whether Capitalism is "Outdated" & "Crumbling" on Freedom Watch
January 25th, 2012 - Will More Taxpayer Money Solve the Debt Crisis? Anthony Randazzo on Freedom Watch
January 25th, 2012 - 3 Reasons School Choice is Growing
January 24th, 2012 - What We Saw at National School Choice Week Kickoff in New Orleans
January 23rd, 2012 - Peter Suderman Discusses GM, Toyota, & Crony Capitalism on Freedom Watch
January 23rd, 2012 - Tim Cavanaugh Discusses Gingrich and Political Sex Scandals with Thom Hartmann
January 23rd, 2012 - The Foie Gras Fight: Animal Cruelty or Animal Rights Propaganda?
January 19th, 2012 - Anthony Randazzo Discusses Warren Buffet, taxes, and SOPA with Judge Napolitano
January 19th, 2012 - Will The Supreme Court End New York's Rent Control Laws?
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