Can the FTC Save Uber?
Taxi commissions are crushing disruptive transportation apps. Marvin Ammori discusses in this Slate article. Read more about Can the FTC Save Uber?
CIS explores how changes in the architecture of computer networks affect the economic environment for innovation and competition on the Internet, and how the law should react to those changes. This work has lead us to analyze the issue of network neutrality, perhaps the Internet's most debated policy issue, which concerns Internet user's ability to access the content and software of their choice without interference from network providers.
Taxi commissions are crushing disruptive transportation apps. Marvin Ammori discusses in this Slate article. Read more about Can the FTC Save Uber?
Right now, a battle is underway to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, a statute that can transform innocuous workplace behavior into a federal crime, simply because a computer is involved. The CFAA is a bludgeon that Big Business and the Department of Justice have willingly used against the American worker, and its time for that to stop. Read more about Organized Labor Can Protect Workers by Supporting 'Aaron's Law'
Why Tweeting MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech Now Constitutes Civil Disobedience: An article in Slate. Read more about Why Tweeting MLK's "I Have a Dream" Speech Now Constitutes Civil Disobedience
This Article consists of some general observations and a few examples that illustrate them. First, technology can benefit tremendously from government involvement. Regulation may be part of that involvement, but thinking just in terms of regu‐ lation obscures some important points. When people talk about regulating technology, they usually assume technology is a private good, and the question becomes whether—and how— the government should regulate private property. This ob‐ scures the truth that technology is frequently a product of pub‐ lic and private collaboration. Read more about Regulation and Technology