What Tech Policies Should We Expect from the Biden Administration?
Some trends to look for over the next four years
Some trends to look for over the next four years
Pai has focused on taking a market-based approach to regulating the nation's always-evolving telecommunications industry, with great success.
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Deregulation didn't end the internet as we know it.
In a lengthy opinion, a divided three-judge panel turns away most of the legal challenges to the Federal Communications Commission's "Restoring Internet Freedom" Order
But that might not stop House Democrats from Net Neutrality-related histrionics.
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Preliminary FCC report claims the number of Americans with high-speed connections grew by 20 percent in 2017.
Facebook, Google, Apple, and others are now facing the sort of regulatory and antitrust animus once leveled at Bill Gates' company.
One year after Net Neutrality, connection speed is up, the discrimination critics feared is non-existent, and the debate about Internet regulation is abysmal.
But if you're reading this, you know that's not true.
When Apple's CEO Tim Cook says "the free market is not working," bad things are coming.
The Justice Department is suing to stop the state's restrictive new internet law.
California's new law is a legal mess.
States are now the main battleground in regulating internet and social-media giants.
"Ultimately, all this bill will succeed in doing is opening our state to legal challenges and costly litigation."
But their chances of getting the FCC repeal overturned remain slim.
Today's vote is a mostly symbolic victory for supporters of the Obama-era internet regulations.
"Let the free market prevail," says the Senate minority leader. "We don't do that for highways." Which explains traffic jams and failing infrastructure...
The policy was "a solution that won't work to a problem that doesn't exist."
In Chicago, Reason editor at large squares off against former FCC head Tom Wheeler in Oxford-style debate.
The FCC's December order repealing net neutrality preempted sates from reimposing regulations.
Media bias has been far less harmful than media regulation bias. That can seal off whole markets and make everyone who's left too nervous to speak freely.
The second-rate fast-food giant gets basic internet protocols wrong.
There is roughly a zero percent chance Democrats will succeed in blocking net neutrality repeal through the Congressional Review Act.
Onerous IP laws threaten a free and open internet in a way deregulation never can.
New rules would require internet providers to be transparent about their services.
As people worry about the net neutrality vote, public officials threaten our rights to free speech.
But would TV's favorite libertarian really favor federal regulation of the Internet?
Set aside the Chicken Little fears about the internet dying.
Reason.com's editor in chief hashes it out with the FCC Chairman who passed net neutrality.
Nick Gillespie, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Peter Suderman and Matt Welch discuss sex scandals and net neutrality.
It turns out that Tom Wheeler, the FCC head who imposed the rules, doesn't know what he's talking about.
Do net neutrality advocates fear consumer choice?
Promises that "we're going to see an explosion in the kinds of connectivity and the depth of that connectivity" like never before.
In a Fifth Column interview, FCC chair announces the beginning of the end of Title II regulatory classification of Internet companies, frets about the culture of free speech, and calls social-media regulation "a dangerous road to cross."
The Obama-era "Open Internet Order" discourages a free internet.
Confusion over net neutrality rules has internet providers too scared to offer freebies, even though it's legal.
The FCC is designed to protect incumbents, enrich politicians, and screw consumers, says economist Thomas Hazlett.
The internet did just fine before bureaucrats started micromanaging it.
This isn't about whether the internet will be free and open. It's about how much power the FCC should have.
A transparent attempt to establish government control over the rare place where freedom is still highly regarded.
Goodbye and good riddance to the Obama administration's "Open Internet Order."
"We were not living in a digital dystopia in the years leading up to 2015."
Pai favors free speech but not treating the Internet as a public utlity. That's exactly right.