The Regulatory Status of ISPs in 1998
There are several claims floating around to the effect that the FCC has a long history of treating ISPs as Title II carriers. This isn’t correct, of course. The Kennard…
Shane and Richard Talk Internet Performance and Politics
[powerpress] In this edition of the High Tech Forum podcast, Shane Tews interviews me about my recent research paper, “You Get What You Measure“. This is the paper that looks…
Van Schewick’s Alternate History of the Internet
It’s peculiar to me that someone who has spent as much time on Internet policy as Professor van Schewick has internalized so many myths and so few facts. I can only surmise that she has depended on oral histories and personal biographies for her theory of the Internet instead of historical facts.
Why magazine mogul Tina Brown is ‘angry and upset’ at Google and Facebook
Tina Brown, founder of Daily Beast, isn’t happy with the current Internet advertising duopoly: “I am very angry and upset about the way advertising revenue has been essentially pirated by…
Balancing the Scales: FCC Will Not Actually Eliminate Net Neutrality
How can we ignore the fact that the Internet of today is nothing like the Internet of the mid ’90s, freshly opened to the public before the web was a cash cow for advertisers?
No boundaries: Exfiltration of personal data by session-replay scripts
Princeton’s Center for Information Technology Policy is doing some amazing work in data logging by web sites that will shock and disgust you: You may know that most websites have third-party…
Report: Average Web Page Load Times Not Improving As Fast as Broadband Speeds – Telecompetitor
From Joan Engebretson in Telecompetitor: Increases in average broadband speed have not brought a commensurate decrease in average web page load times, according to a new white paper from the…
You Get What You Measure: Internet Performance Measurement as a Policy Tool
The emphasis on one facet of internet performance, such as last mile broadband networks, tends to minimize other factors that may be more important to the user, such as the performance impact of tracking networks, browsers, webpage design, and web server performance.