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Thoughts on Comcast v. FCC
I published the first of two pieces on CNET today about interesting and even encouraging developments in Washington over Internet policy. (See “New Year, New P…
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Cyber Détente
Late last year the Obama administration reopened talks with Russia over the militarization of cyberspace and assented to cybersecurity discussion in the United…
Opening Statement at the Federal Communications Commission’s Workshop on Innovation, Investment and the Open Internet in Cambridge, MA - WC Docket No. 07-52, GN Docket No. 09-191
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Google's Stunning Indictment of the Chinese Government
What is so amazing about the news that Google will stop censoring search results in China and may pull out altogether, is that the impetus for this has nothing…
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wisdom of crowds vs. meanness of mobs
Jeffery A. Salter in The New York Times: "In the 1990s, Jaron Lanier was one of the digital pioneers hailing the wonderful possibilities that would be real…
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Former Boyfriend Used Craigslist To Arrange Woman's Rape, Police Say
Center for Internet Fellow Ryan Calo talked to the LA Times' DeeDee Correll about the role of Craigslist in a criminal case involving Jebidiah James Stipe,…
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Tinselgate and online redress
An inside chonicle of the kerfluffle (a.k.a "Tinselgate") over the White House xmas tree, with an ODR emphasis added: "During the first three we…
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The Net Neutrality Doublespeak
An interesting tempest in a teapot has emerged this week following some overblown rhetoric by and in response to celebrity causemeister Bono. There’s a deeper l…
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The Net Neutrality Doublespeak
An interesting tempest in a teapot has emerged this week following some overblown rhetoric by and in response to celebrity causemeister Bono. There’s a deeper l…
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Audit Zittrain's "Difficult Problems In Cyberlaw"
Jonathan Zittrain and Elizabeth Stark invite you to follow along with "Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw," an innovative course at Stanford involving stu…
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Federal Communications Commission Preserving the Open Internet Proceeding
In 2005, on the same day the FCC re-classified DSL service and effectively reduced the regulatory obligations of DSL providers, the FCC announced its unanimous…
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Limits of enforcement for online civility
Interesting uproar over the actions of the "social media" reporter of STLToday.com. The long and the short of it: the blogger asked the question &quo…