January 23, 2013 Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller Op-ed: “Obsolete Privacy Law”. It’s part 1 of a new “Privacy Theft” research series....
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Debasing Free Speech as No-Cost Speech – Part 1 Defending First Principles Series
November 19, 2012 The genuine U.S. Constitutional principle of “Freedom of Speech” in the First Amendment — that protects us from the real and time-tested threat of governmental tyranny — continues to get debased, devalued and misrepresented by the free-of-cost tech movement of Free-Culture, the...
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Will Google Become SoftBank – Sprint’s Silent Partner?
October 18, 2012 Like most analysts, I am not persuaded by the stated rationale and synergies SoftBank has put forth to justify its acquisition of Sprint. At bottom the deal is financial engineering: balance sheet and exchange rate arbitrage; and market timing. It appears to...
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Internet Astroturf 3.0
October 1, 2012 Pro-piracy interests have been organizing globally to head off and defeat future anti-piracy legislation (like SOPA/PIPA), IP treaties (ACTA) and property rights enforcement, all while claiming to represent “the Internet” and all its users, when they do not. They collectively represent pro-piracy...
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Top False Claims of the New Internet Association – Part 2 of “Internet as Oz” Series
September 20, 2012 Unfortunately, the new Internet Association launched yesterday is making several false claims. Claim: “The Internet Association, the nation’s first trade association representing the interests of the Internet economy, America’s leading Internet companies and their vast community of users…” Truth: This “first” claim...
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The New Internet Association’s Back Story
Google, Amazon, eBay, and Facebook reportedly are launching a new Internet Association in mid-September to be “the unified voice of the Internet economy, representing the interests of America’s leading Internet companies and their global community of users. The Internet Association is dedicated to advancing public...
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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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Questions to Ask at Google-Fiber Announcement
July 23, 2012 Listed below are pertinent questions to ask Google at its Google Fiber announcement July 26th, given Google’s “launch-first, fix-later” philosophy, and its PR practice of omitting material facts and information. (See the Google-Kansas City Agreement here.) Gag order on City: Why is...
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Why FTC’s $22.5m Google Privacy-Fine is Faux Accountability
July 12, 2012 If one fact-checks and puts in perspective the FTC’s expected $22.5m privacy fine of Google — for bypassing millions of Apple Safari users’ privacy and security settings to add a tracking cookie to track users browsing activity — it looks like faux...
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