Progress and Freedom Foundation President Adam Thierer is one of the very best free market minds on all things Internet. Please take the time to review Adam’s outstanding five-part case against net neutrality regulation that he pulled together for his debate with FreePress’ Ben Scott...
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Monthly Archives: February 2010
Must-read Swanson Op-ed: The White House-FCC Jobs Clash
Don’t miss Digital Society’s Bret Swanson’s outstanding op-ed in the Huffington Post that spotlights the huge disconnect between the White House’s top priority of creating jobs, and the FCC’s Open Internet regulation plans that are obviously big net job killers. Common sense dictates that heavily...
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Foundem FCC Filing Documents Google search network discrimination; Window into EU-Google antitrust case
Foundem, a UK vertical search competitor to Google, documents serial anticompetitive discrimination on Google’s search network, in a data-driven filing to the FCC in the FCC’s Open Internet regulation proceeding. It is logical that the data-driven analysis in Foundem’s public FCC filing is an integral...
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Real Discrimination Goobris — Google’s hiding its EEO track record
Kudos to Mike Swift of the Mercury News for his important article about how Google “says the race and gender of its workforce is a trade secret that cannot be released.” Google and four other Silicon Valley companies opposed the paper’s FOIA request for summary...
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Must read Broadband industry letter to FCC: Title II reclassification would do incalcuable harm
In one of the best, most strongly-worded and serious letters to the FCC that I have read in my 18 years following FCC issues closely, the united broadband industry’s letter to FCC Chairman Genachowski is simply a must-read; it explains why the FCC’s serious interest in reclassifying unregulated broadband information...
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Will Google Stop Censoring Search Results in China per its Pledge? New GoogleMonitor.com Ticker
GoogleMonitor.com For Immediate Release February 22, 2010 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407 Media@GoogleMonitor.com Will Google Stop Censoring Search Results in China per its Pledge? GoogleMonitor.com Announces Google China Censorship Pledge Accountability Ticker WASHINGTON – GoogleMonitor.com has installed a ticker on its...
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NARUC proves more reasonable than FCC — see great post by Matt Turk of Digital Society
Kudos to Matt Turk of Digital Society for his very insightful post spotlighting how NARUC understands the need for reasonable discrimination in the real world that the FCC apparently does not understand in its proposed Open Internet regulations. Matt Turk: “By urging a move from...
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How much should Google be subsidized?
Pending FCC policy proposals in the National Broadband Plan and the Open Internet regulation proceeding would vastly expand the implicit multi-billion dollar subisidies Google already enjoys, as by far the largest user of Internet bandwidth and the smallest contributor to the Internet’s cost relative to...
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FCC Chairman’s “broadband engine” speech raises big questions
FCC Chairman Genachowski’s speech to NARUC: “Broadband: Our Enduring Engine for Prosperity and Opportunity” raises some big open questions. The biggest open question is whether Chairman Genachowski believes the titular “broadband engine” of his speech should remain a private sector “engine” that is private property...
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“Boldly Deceptive: FreePress’ extreme agenda in their own words” — great Americans for Prosperity report
Kudos to Phil Kerpen of Americans for Prosperity for their spot-on report of quotes from FreePress that exposes what FreePress is really all about. Their report shows, in FreePress’ own words, that they are a dystopian nightmare masquerading as a public interest group protecting freedom...
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