July 9, 2012 Recent evidence confirms that the U.S. net neutrality movement is in substantial retreat and trying to fall back to more defensible ground, on which to make its next stand. The movement is by no means defeated overall, as it is resilient, well-funded...
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FCC Exceptionalism and Supremacy?
Often stepping back to gain perspective and to try and see the forest for the trees, can be highly instructive. However, if one steps back to see the big picture of how this FCC is attempting unilaterally to change U.S. Internet policy, the view is...
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Unintended Consequences: Balkanizing the Internet
The big missing part of the policy debate over how to best ensure continuation of an open Internet, i.e. through existing policy or the FCC’s proposed preemptive regulations, is what makes the Internet universal? The Internet is near universal because it is entirely voluntary. All...
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The National Broadband Plan “Fork-in-the-Road”
A scan of the major comments just delivered to the FCC on the National Broadband Plan (which is due to Congress February 2010), spotlighted the big broadband policy “fork-in-the-road” decision that the FCC now has before it. One road of the fork-in-the-road, continues down the...
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An Internet Economy or “Ecommony?” Growing pushback against “Information wants to be free”
The recession has created new urgency for multiple content industries to find a better way to protect and monetize their property/content in the digital world. The dotcom bubble ethos that “information wants to be free” is like a gross mold destroying the incentives to create and...
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