March 7, 2013 Please don’t miss my new Daily Caller Op-ed, “The Looming Government Spectrum Scandal”. It’s Part 5 of my ongoing Government Spectrum Waste, Fraud & Abuse Research Series. * * * * * Government Spectrum Waste Fraud and Abuse Research Series Part 1: U.S....
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The Deceptive Politics of Piracy
August 8, 2012 In writing “Internet Pirates Will Always Win,” Nick Bilton, The New York Times’s technology columnist whom I read and respect, has unwisely adopted the political logic and public narrative of the piracy lobby that “information wants to be free.” Unfortunately, I don’t...
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Who But Google is Thriving in Online Advertising?
August 6, 2012 Evidence abounds that the industry business model of online advertising, minus Google, is shockingly weak competitively, given how many people assume advertising is supposed to be the viable competitive monetization engine that will sustain the “free and open Internet” long term. Anyone...
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Google Has No Free Speech Right to Break the Law
Google’s latest claimed antitrust get-out-of-jail-free-card is that Google is effectively immune from antitrust prosecution because it has a constitutional free speech right to free speech to rank and present its search results any way it wants, per a new Google-sponsored white paper by UCLA Law...
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Top Ten Untrue Google Stories
The FCC’s Google Street View wiretapping investigation proved that Google’s public representations it was just a mistake one rogue engineer — that the FTC and foreign law enforcement relied upon to close their investigations — were untrue. Going forward, law enforcement must remember the old...
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Consumer Groups’ Advocacy Hypocrisy
Consumer groups by definition are supposed to be protecting consumers’ interests — not be pushing a special interest political agenda under the guise of the “public interest.” Let’s spotlight a recent and blatant hypocrisy whereby consumer groups near-completely ignored an instance of obvious widespread consumer...
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FreePress’ Latest Net Neutrality Folly – Pushing for Shareholder Votes
FreePress’ latest net neutrality folly and political agitation is pushing the SEC to make shareholders from AT&T, Verizon and Sprint vote on inappropriate, ill-advised, and unwarranted proposed shareholder resolutions in favor of wireless net neutrality in the weeks ahead. Let me count the ways this...
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Where’s the Market for Online Privacy?
Why are market forces so weak in protecting users’ online privacy? The main reason is that the online marketplace is economically structured around users being a commodity, data, to be aggregated and mined, not customers to be served and protected in a competitive marketplace. That’s...
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Android’s Pickpocket Behind Google Wallet
The kerfuffle that paints the Google Wallet App as an innocent victim of Verizon blocking — in violation of an “open” Internet and net neutrality regulations — completely misses the forest for the trees. This conflict revolves around two ongoing industry battles. To see what...
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Grand Theft Auto-mated! Online Ad-Economics Fuel Piracy & SOPA Opposition
The likely passage of online anti-piracy legislation (SOPA/PIPA) in 2012 has put a spotlight on the substantial ad-based business interests aligned with piracy and against piracy enforcement. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post to learn why Grand Theft Auto-mated is such big business and so...
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