Net Neutrality: Two Sleeper Legal Issues May Force Congress to Act
Szoka and Owens on the “major questions” doctrine and Section 230 protection for ISPs: The Major Questions doctrine doesn’t always mean the government loses. In fact, in King v. Burwell,…
Supreme Court Should Free the Internet from the FCC
Cato comments on Dan Berninger’s Supreme Court petition: The Federal Communications Commission, at least under previous chairmen, desperately wanted to control the internet. To further this objective, the FCC reversed…
The $40 Billion Broadband Plan That Misses the Mark
Check the American Action Forum’s post in the Democrats’ “Better Deal” broadband plan. It’s got more holes than Swiss cheese. In arguing for this buildout, the Better Deal plan suggests…
Depressing Investment Figures
Figures released by US Telecom on Tuesday showed reduced spending on broadband infrastructure for the second year in a row. While 2014 was the best year for broadband investment since the fiber bubble…
Internet Monopoly Platform Crisis
How the tables have turned. At the dawn of the net neutrality debate, the good guys in the Internet marketplace were the scrappy platform startups created in dorm rooms and…
FCC Marriott Consent Decree Makes KRACK Attack Worse
By now you’ve certainly heard about the KRACK Internet security nightmare afflicting Wi-Fi. The exploit, discovered by Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens, leverages a vulnerability in the IEEE 802.11i standard for data…
AI: Useful Tool or Existential Threat?
Perhaps because there seems to be a shortage of natural intelligence these days, artificial intelligence is grabbing a prominent place in public discourse. MIT Technology Review is running an exceptional…
Cooking the Books While Startups Languish
Since leaving the FCC, former chairman Tom Wheeler and Special Advisor Gigi Sohn have relentlessly attacked current chairman Ajit Pai. This is an unusual breach of decorum because former FCC…
Tech Policy Tribalism
The tribal forces of the left appear to be forming a drum circle around the idea that rural broadband is entirely screwed up in the US so we need to create thousands of broadband co-ops to solve it the problem in a few decades. I think we can do a lot better, but only if we can forget about the tribal identities and apply some reasoning informed by facts.
My FCC Comments on Broadband Progress
Here’s the summary of the comments I filed with the FCC on its broadband deployment report to Congress. A lot of the ink in the mainstream media today echoes a…