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The First National Broadband Plan
Over the weekend, I published an op-ed in The Des Moines Register encouraging the FCC to heed the lessons of the first national broadband plan, the one Secretar…
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A New Wall Street Initiative
Two weeks ago, the Future of Money and Technology Summit held in San Francisco offered a glimpse of powerful ways that technology can reshape the banking and fi…
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Objective Failure: Why the debate about media objectivity threatens the viability of general-interest news outlets.
In the midst of a crisis threatening the very existence of the journalism industry, it might seem like an odd time to debate the merits of objective news report…
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Second Circuit Adopts Stricter Standard For Copyright Injunctions
Last summer, a federal district court in New York issued a preliminary injunction banning the publication of 60 Years Later - Coming Through The Rye on the grou…
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ECPA and the Law of Disruption
I write in “The Laws of Disruption” of the risk of unintended consequences that regulators run in legislating emerging technologies. Because the pace of change…
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New Blog: Robotics And The Law
I started a new blog around robotics programming and scholarship at Stanford Law School. Some of us here believe that robotics is a transformative technology o…
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Addicted to conflict
"There's plenty of evidence to support that we don't need to fight... it's almost like we're addicted to the fight... the media is very con…
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Backstage drama at Wikipedia DE
This is a fascinating case study of an in depth online dispute involving a very tech savvy and high profile team. Mathieu von Rohr in Speigel Online: "It…
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Conference about the Future of News
Next week, the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society (CIS) is hosting a conference titled The Future of Journalism: Unpacking the Rhetoric. The…
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The New York Times swings and misses on broadband "reclassification"
I have a long opinion piece on CNet today, arguing that much of the talk of “reclassifying” or “relabeling” broadband Internet access to bring it under the FCC’…
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The price we pay for civilization
James Carroll in the Globe: "We may dislike the tax bite, but we loathe the destruction of civic pillars and the deliberate unraveling of safety nets. Citi…
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Thanks from WhatApp.org!
The response to WhatApp.org has been wonderful, thanks! We now have over 20 registered and approved experts from a wide variety of sectors, including privacy c…