Technological Redlining
By Jeffrey Vagle on July 19, 2016 at 2:56 pm
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.
By Jeffrey Vagle on July 19, 2016 at 2:56 pm
By Morgan Weiland on June 14, 2016 at 8:31 pm
Though much attention is focused on the court’s vindication of the FCC’s reclassification of ISPs as common carriers under Title II, the court also ensured significant protection of public interest regulations from spurious First Amendment arguments. Read more about D.C. Circuit’s Net Neutrality Ruling Rejects Corporate First Amendment Expansionism
By Tom Rubin on June 1, 2016 at 12:59 pm
Media leaders have always stood up for a free press and the First Amendment. Now it's Facebook's turn. My Recode column is here: http://www.recode.net/2016/5/31/11821868/facebook-thune-thiel-gawker-con.... Read more about Facebook, stand up or get out
By Daphne Keller on May 27, 2016 at 2:51 pm
The European Commission is making major steps forward in its new Digital Single Market strategy. One important part, the Platform Liability consultation, pointedly asked whether Internet intermediaries should “do more” to weed out illegal or harmful content on their platforms – in other words, to proactively police the information posted by users. Read more about Can a New Broadcasting Law in Europe Make Internet Hosts Monitor Their Users?