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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…
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Two Smoking Guns and a Cold Case
The copyright war just isn’t dramatic enough to warrant a good novel, let alone a big movie deal. Consider a few recent stories from the on-going battle betwee…
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Necessary but not sufficient
Martin Wolf in the Financial Times: "...these views shaped how I have responded to the financial catastrophe of the past few years. I was convinced that,…
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America's Vital Center
John Richardson for Esquire: "These days, the argument that Obama hasn't accomplished anything may be the only example of real bipartisanship in Americ…
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Cleantech IP Thoughts
Last week a stream of cleantech related events emerged onto my radar is several ways. First, Bruce Abramson simply but profoundly commented on Facebook that he…
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What the Comcast/NBC merger is really about
My op-ed today in The Hill (see “The Winter of Our Content,”) argues against those who want to derail the merger of Comcast and NBC Universal. I don’t know eno…
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FTC: Protecting Consumers from Moore's Law?
I write today on CNET News.com (see "FTC's new strategy: kick 'em when they're down") that the FTC’s decision yesterday to attack Intel s…
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Taxonomy of Social Networking and Privacy
Security expert Bruce Schneier today posts about the taxonomy of social networking data. He describes five types of data: "1. Service data. Service data…
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Facebook privacy flap reveals bad PR more than bad policy
I write today on CNET about several recent privacy gaffes and missteps, notably the damp squib that was Facebook's new privacy policy and tools. I have som…