December 17, 2015 Are several arms of the U.S. Government giving Google special treatment to enable it to secretly conduct a nationwide, two-year, test of Project Loon — Google’s ambitious scheme to be the first company to commercialize the stratosphere — in a manner...
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Net Neutrality
Did FCC Respect Judge Tatel’s Stated Warnings against Authority Overreach?
December 9, 2015 Given that the USTelecom v. FCC appellate challenge of the FCC’s Open Internet Order is so important to net neutrality, the FCC’s authority over the Internet, and broadband providers’ future, and given that Judge Tatel’s thinking is so important to the outcome...
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Did FCC Read Judge Tatel Right in Pursuing Title II over Section 706?
December 7, 2015 The central overriding question in the USTelecom v. FCC case challenging the FCC’s Open Internet Order may be: did the FCC read Judge Tatel right in that he de facto guided the FCC to pursue Title II to create the most solid...
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Court Preview: Activists Expose Net Neutrality’s Biggest Legal Problems
November 29, 2015 Do not let the FCC’s likely unlawful means of broadband Internet regulation, i.e. Title II, distract you from the additional likelihood that two primary ends of supposed net neutrality “policy canon” i.e. bans against “paid prioritization” and “two-sided markets” (only users should...
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A Free and Open Internet that Can’t Be Allowed to Be Free and Open?
November 15, 2015 You know there are big problems with the so called “principle” of net neutrality when the New York Times writes an editorial headlined “Why Free Can Be a Problem on the Internet” and their editorial has nothing to do with protecting consumers’...
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Net Neutrality Trumping Privacy Undercut the US-EU Data Safe Harbor
November 10, 2015 Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller Op-ed, “Net Neutrality Trumping Privacy Undercut the US-EU Data Safe Harbor.” It is proof positive of the law of unintended consequences coming home to roost for the U.S. Government....
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What Lessig’s Presidential Candidacy Did for Net Neutrality & Copyright
November 6, 2015 No surprise that political activist Larry Lessig, the intellectual leader of the net neutrality and anti-copyright movements, ran one of the most cynical, undemocratic, and stunt-driven Presidential candidacies ever, because that’s exactly the kind of cynical, undemocratic, stunt-driven campaigns his political followers...
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Judge Wu’s New York Kangaroo Court for Alleged Internet Traffic Violations
October 28, 2015 Tim Wu, the self-described “policy advocate,” who coined the term “net neutrality;” who has been a leading activist for preemptively regulating broadband service like a utility despite scant evidence of any problem; who from 2008-2011 was Chair of the pressure group FreePress...
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Will Government Spectrum Permissions Throttle 4G Evolution to 5G Wireless?
September 30, 2015 To try to justify mandating Title II utility regulation of broadband and the blocking of the Comcast-Time Warner acquisition, the Administration and FCC had to gerrymander broadband definitions to reach their political goal that wireless broadband service not be considered an official...
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Municipalities: Broadband Is Not a ‘Core Utility’
September 25, 2015 It is timely to fact check the Federal Government’s storyline that broadband is a ‘core utility,’ given a new White House report that directs municipalities that broadband is a “core utility… like water, sewer and electricity;” and given that a senior FCC...
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