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Submitted by Scott Cleland on Sun, 2014-06-15 10:19
Thanks and Kudos to Mike Wendy of Media Freedom for this <3 minute commentary (video here) about how naïve Silicon Valley is in pushing for broadband regulation that could easily boomerang and apply to core parts of Silicon Valley’s distribution and cloud businesses.
They are living proof of the old adage: be careful of what you ask for, you may just get it.
They also could find themselves getting acquainted with a new adage: live by three FCC votes, die by three FCC votes.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2014-06-03 17:39
Unregulated Google is increasingly pushing for maximal FCC net neutrality and price regulation of its direct broadband competitors, potentially via FCC reclassification of broadband as a Title II telephone utility service.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2014-05-29 08:55
Please see my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “Top Ten Reasons to Oppose Broadband Utility Regulation.”
It provides a great overview of the best arguments why the FCC reclassifying broadband as a Title II monopoly telephone service, is a very bad idea.
- It is Part 50 of my FCC Open Internet Series.
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FCC Open Internet Order Series
Part 1: The Many Vulnerabilities of an Open Internet [9-24-09]
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-05-26 22:22
Dear Executives of Internet Association Companies,
Have you thought through the global implications of your businesses’ public lobbying for regulating broadband like a public telephone utility?
Possibly you are unaware that “The French government said it would push for a new European law later this year to classify Google and other Web giants like public utilities, forcing them to guarantee access to all services like phone operators. … We don’t want to become a digital colony of global Internet giants” said the French Economy Minister, per Wall Street Journal reporting.
As members of the global Internet giant association, and as global companies with large majorities of your current or future revenues coming from overseas, it could be beneficial to better think through the global implications of your high-profile policy support for new broadband utility regulation in the U.S.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-04-07 15:43
Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “Diverging US-EU Internet Trade Visions.”
It spotlights that starkly diverging US-EU net neutrality and data protection policies complicate negotiations for the nascent and pending Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (T-TIP) trade agreement.
This is Part 6 of my “World Changing the Internet” research series.
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World Changing Internet Series
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2014-03-21 12:25
Billionaire Netflix CEO Reed Hastings objects to Netflix having to pay anything at all for Netflix’ gorging on 30% of the Internet’s North American bandwidth. In a Netflix corporate blogpost billionaire Reed Hastings rails against the perceived injustice of Netflix paying Internet usage-based pricing like consumers do.
At core, Mr. Hastings now derides traditional consumer-defined net neutrality, which ensures consumers the freedom to access the legal content of their choice – as “weak” net neutrality.
Meanwhile, he is attempting to rebrand his new self-serving, corporate-defined net neutrality, which ensures the largest corporate users of the Internet pay nothing for their largest usage of interconnection bandwidth -- as “strong” net neutrality.
Mr. Hastings’ position clearly prioritizes corporate welfare above consumer welfare.
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2014-03-17 10:00
Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “Accelerating the De-Americanization of the Internet.”
It explains the broad implications for the Internet of:
- America handing over the master key of the Internet to ICANN; and
- the European Parliament updating privacy law for the first time since 1995 nearly unanimously.
This is Part 5 of my “World Changing the Internet” research series.
World Changing the Internet.
Part 1: Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet [1-11-12]
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-11-19 15:24
Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed: “The De-Americanization of the Internet” -- here.
America's dominance of the Internet has peaked. Read why and what it means.
- It is Part 3 of my “World Changing Internet” research series.
World Changing Internet Series
Part 1: Seven Ways the World is Changing the Internet
Part 2: Twitter’s Realpolitik & the Sovereign-ization of the Internet
Submitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-07-23 12:31
Please click here for Google-YouTube's Internet Video Distribution Dominance -- Part XII of my seven-year, Googleopoly research series.
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This is must read for anyone interested in: Google antitrust; Google's liability for willful blindness to piracy and copyright infringement, and the legal implications of Google trying to solve its access-to-quality-video content-problem by acquisition of Dish, DirecTV or a major studio/TV network.
Google-YouTube’s Internet Video Distribution Dominance -- Part XII of Googleopoly Research Series
Submitted by admin on Fri, 2013-04-26 14:18
Ever wonder why there are so many never ending tech policy and political battles?
Why there are so many recurring:
Ever wonder why so many of the same people and entities are involved in the same tech policy and political battles over and over again?
The answer is it is an ideological struggle, but not the 20th century kind with which most people are familiar, for example like progressive vs. conservative, or republican vs. democrat. This is a new and different kind of ideological struggle between realspace and cyberspace that is unique to the 21st century and to the Internet Age.
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