Emergence of Cloud Computing = Government Regulation Can’t Be Far Behind
Brad Smith, Microsoft’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel addressed the Brookings Institution earlier this week calling for government to get involved to enhance the safety, security and...
View ArticleWeekend Reading — NBCU/Comcast/GE Public Interest Statement
For those of you inclined to read protracted legalese filings, NBC Universal, Comcast and GE submitted their Public Interest Statement to the FCC this week. You can read the filing here. Many...
View ArticleDon’t subject the Internet to politicians, bureaucrats
I recently wrote an op-ed for the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Inside ALEC publication. It’s decidedly non-technical, as most correspondance with a majority in the legislative branch must...
View ArticleBroadband is great but, magical? really?
The city of Bellingham, Washington lies close to the Canadian border. It is a sleep town of 70,000 or so with a decent sized University, a pleasant waterfront and charming downtown. (Full disclosure,...
View ArticleThen What’s the Point?
A “funny until you realize it’s real” story out of San Francisco today (courtesy of the NY Times) where the city will soon require cell phone retailers to display the amount of radiation in each phone...
View ArticleFree Press Pressing Communities of Color on Net Neutrality
A fun little tidbit from Huffington Post today. Cook County Commissioner Robert Steele penned an op-ed revealing that Free Press, strong advocates for Net Neutrality regulation, is pushing its agenda...
View ArticleGladwell’s take on social networking as a social force (or lack thereof)
An interesting and thought-provoking piece by Malcolm Gladwell over at The New Yorker this month takes a look at the intersection between true civic activism (the kind that could get you killed) and...
View ArticlePreserving the Open Internet by Changing Everything
Citing nefarious, and completely imaginative, examples of “Big Mobile” and “Big Cable” shutting down access to the Internet, the FCC voted today to move towards greater regulatory oversight of...
View ArticleWhy are some states disproportionately taxing a service we want more people...
A new report out this week in State Tax Notes shows the discriminatory way in which Federal, state and local governments treat their citizens who subscribe to wireless services — and according to CTIA...
View ArticleBalancing Risk and Regulation
So a few weeks ago I hit up Adam Thierer, who has done and is continuing to do great work on all things regulation, on some materials for a project I was working on regarding the precautionary...
View ArticleUK report’s “resiliency” sure looks a lot like “anticipation”
A UK government report issued this week warns that climate change, in addition to threatening many different parts of everyday life, also threatens the Information and Communications Technology (ICT)...
View ArticleSan Francisco backs off controversial cell phone radiation ordinance
San Francisco, often the breeding ground for “interesting” public policy proposals, decided recently to back off its mandate the would have required retailers of cell phones to label them with...
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