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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…
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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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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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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…