On December 11, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order (EO) that purports to deprive states of the ability to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) – t…
Back in 2011, as Nevada was developing regulations for automated driving, there was debate about whether vehicles should have a special external signal to indic…
Berlin, April 28, 2025 - Epicenter.works, the Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte (GFF), the Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband (vzbv), and Stanford Professor Barba…
Cyberspace Prosecutor Before the courts race to join the content control freaks" chorus, they should pause to consider our national tradition. Industry Sta…
Patent Problems Every method of doing business in cyberspace by definition is instantiated in technology - code. Thus, every method becomes subject to a patent.…
The Net, Version 2000 Through code or through contract, business seeks to change the design of cyberspace to make it more commerce-friendly. Industry Standard,…
The Code of Cyberspace Congress should help artists get paid without delivering the Internet. The Internet will not cause the "withering away of the state.…
G-Rated Browsers Industry Standard, December 3, 1999…
Architecting Innovation The key to the Net"s extraordinary innovation is that it doesn"t allow a term like "allow." Industry Standard, Novem…
Filtering Content In this world where business regulates instead of government, what do we do when business goes too far? Industry Standard, October, 1999…
Thinking Different(ly) Our national identity is tied to the ideals of the First Amendment. And yet we treat it as obvious that in corporate space, the Bolshevik…
The Cable Debate, Pt II Competition should be the policy. Industry Standard, July, 1999…
Broadband Blackmail Should someone pick your ISP for you? Code is thus limiting competition. The network is being designed to restrict ISP choice, and thereby l…
Coding Privacy After years of inaction, Congress is finally coming to see that privacy on the Internet won"t take care of itself. The mystery isn"t th…
The Problem with Patents A patent is a form of regulation. It is a government-granted monopoly - an exclusive right backed by the power of the state. This monop…