I will be on the CPAC Digital Liberty panel today (February 10, 2012) with FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell, Kelly Cobb of ATR and Ryan Radia of CEI. The very important sleeper issue I expect we will spotlight for the CPAC audience is the imminent threat...
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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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Twitter’s Realpolitik & The Sovereign-ization of the Internet
Reports that “Twitter Can Censor by Country” is a perfect example of how the world is changing the Internet. Change is a two-way street. Conventional wisdom that only assumes the Internet is changing the world risks being blind-sided by the Internet’s underappreciated exa-trend: how the...
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Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet
Since most people focus on how the Internet is changing the world, few focus on the reverse — how much the world is changing the Internet. See My Forbes Tech Capitalist blog post to learn the “Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet.” ...
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Does FCC Want to Become The Federal Video Programming Commission?
This week an FCC Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) ordered Comcast to carry The Tennis Channel in the same tier and channel neighborhood as The Golf Channel and Versus, another sports channel. Given the deep flaws in the ALJ’s highly-intrusive, and micro-managing decision, there are several...
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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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SOPA Opponents’ Bogus Net Neutrality Comparisons
The only thing proponents of Net neutrality regulation and opponents of online piracy legislation appear to have in common is the boy-crying-wolf “censorship” rhetoric of FreePress’ Save The Internet activists. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post here, “SOPA Opponents’ Bogus Net Neutrality Comparisons.” ...
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The Politics of Regulating the Internet
As the Senate prepares to vote on the fate of the FCC’s net neutrality regulations this week, it’s instructive to look more closely at the politics of regulating the Internet. Read my Forbes Tech Capitalist post here....
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Why Anti-Piracy Legislation Will Become Law
Pending anti-piracy legislation (Senate: PROTECT IP, House: SOPA) is very likely to become law in 2012. See my Forbes Tech Capitalist post to learn why, and why it’s important....
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