JANUARY 19, 2011 Obama’s Rules Revelation The era of big regulation is over. Or is it? President Obama took to these pages yesterday to announce a new executive order to restore “balance” to federal regulation and root out rules that impede job creation and economic growth. If he means it, this will be one of […]
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WASHINGTON POST By George F. Will Sunday, January 9, 2011; Consensus is scarce but almost everyone agrees with this: The government is dysfunctional and the Internet is splendid. But last month, the Democratic-controlled Federal Communications Commission, on a partisan 3-2 vote, did what a federal court says it has no power to do: It decided
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Hands off tomorrow’s Internet By Meredith Attwell Baker Tuesday, December 21, 2010; On Tuesday, in a party-line vote, the three Democratic commissioners of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will adopt “net neutrality” rules. The rules will give government, for the first time, a substantive role in how the Internet will be operated and managed, how
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DECEMBER 21, 2010 The Net Neutrality Coup The campaign to regulate the Internet was funded by a who’s who of left-liberal foundations. By JOHN FUND The Federal Communications Commission’s new “net neutrality” rules, passed on a partisan 3-2 vote yesterday, represent a huge win for a slick lobbying campaign run by liberal activist groups and
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DECEMBER 19, 2010 The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom ‘Net neutrality’ sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers. By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented
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Web Censorship Bill Sails Through Senate Committee By Sam Gustin November 18, 2010 Who says Congress never gets anything done? On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved a bill that would give the Attorney General the right to shut down websites with a court order if copyright infringement is deemed “central to the activity”
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NOVEMBER 8, 2010 ‘Net Neutrality’ Goes 0 for 95 Regulating the Web wasn’t a political winner last week. By L. GORDON CROVITZ As a reminder of unpredictability in politics, consider what happened when the Progressive Change Campaign Committee last month announced that 95 candidates for Congress had signed a pledge to support “net neutrality.” The
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INFORMATION AGE AUGUST 16, 2010 The Railroad Precedent and the Web The FCC bids to become the ICC of the Internet. By L. GORDON CROVITZ ‘The pact to end the Internet as we know it,” said a report on the Huffington Post. Wired’s headline called Google a “net neutrality surrender monkey.” The lobbying group Free
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JULY 22, 2010 The U.N. Threat to Internet Freedom The FCC’s move to treat broadband providers like phone company monopolies could spur international efforts to regulate the Web. By ROBERT M. MCDOWELL In 1988, delegates from 114 countries gathered in Melbourne, Australia, to negotiate an international treaty for the future of telecommunications regulation. Since then,
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May 22, 2010 Leave Them Tubes Alone By David Harsanyi As there is no real problem with the Internet, it’s not surprising that some of our top minds have been working diligently on a solution. In a 2001 interview (one that only recently has gone viral and caused a brouhaha), Cass Sunstein, now the nation’s
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