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Laurence Tribe sees net neutrality violating US Constitution's free speech protectionSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-08-28 10:58The Progress and Freedom Foundation wisely hosted an outstanding and noteworthy presentation by Harvard Constitutional Law expert and scholar about how net neutrality violates the U.S. Constitution's first amendment protection of free speech. I recommend a of blog post on this from PFF by Adam Theirer on Professor Tribe's presentation and the tour de force video is available as well. The supreme relevance of this presentation is to debunk that net neutrality is "Internet freedom."
Not only is net neutrality trying to address a bogus non-existent "problem," it is a bogus policy concept, because in part it fundamentally misrepresents itself as "Internet freedom" when it is exactly the opposite.
Read "Copps airbrushes role in FCC dereg binge" by MultiChannel's HearnSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-08-28 10:11Ted Hearn of Multichannel News has a dead on post 'Copps airbrushes role in FCC dereg binge" that I suggest anyone interested in the FCC's real bipartisan role in dealing with the "net neutrality" should read. Ted's post exposes some serious political revisionism that is going on by the senior Democrat at the FCC in pandering to one of the most liberal. take-no-prisoners bloggers, Mr. Stoller of OpenLeft. Is Google politically neutral? or is Google trying to skew elections?Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-08-24 21:09Given how extremely politically activist Google-YouTube has become, I thought it might be instructive to revisit my earlier blogpost from January where I asked: "is Google-Youtube a politically neutral gateway to Internet content and videos?" Lets review how extremely politically active Google has become in just the last few months? I'll be speaking at Conservative Leadership Conference on new media in Oct.Submitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-08-24 16:26I am very excited to be attending, and to be one of the speakers, at the Conservative Leadership Conference on "Conservatives and New Media" in Reno Nevada, October 11-13.
The left is massively more organized and involved in new media than conservatives, so I am thrilled to help the CLC, Chuck Muth et al -- build a formidable conservative counterweight to the liberal-dominated blogosphere and new media. I heartily encourage like-minded folks to attend, learn, and get better at promoting free-market, limited government principles over the Internet.
Why conservatives care about antitrust enforcementSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2007-08-24 12:48As a conservative, I embrace antitrust law as both a necessary law and as a time-tested, light-touch, free-market arbiter mechanism to prevent potential monopolization in the marketplace. I also embrace antitrust enforcement as a conservative, because it is an outstanding mechanism to preserve free market competition and protect it from the natural inclination of Big Government to over-reach with its heavy hand of regulation. Greg Sidak of Georgetown University and Hal Singer of Criterion Economics have produced an outstanding editorial in the Washington Times on this subject concerning the proposed XM-Sirius merger. I recommend that every conservative who cares about limited government should read it.
This explains why as a conservative, I have been so focused philosophically on highlighting the anti-competitive effects of the Google-DoubleClick merger and why I believe the FTC will ultimately block that transaction. Powerful evidence US wireless market is world's most competitiveSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-08-22 21:51Kudos to Steve Pociask of the American Consumer Institute for another outstanding piece of analysis that debunks the notion that the US wireless market is not competitive and requires net neutrality/open access regulation.
The powerfully straightforward conclusions are:
What's wrong with that picture? oops! Google-YouTube serving ads just like competitor DoubleClickSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-08-22 17:10Google has another big "oops!" problem where its actions in the marketplace do not match the line they are feeding to the FTC/EC antitrust investigators who are reviewing Google's proposed acquisition of dominant ad-server DoubleClick.
So what's the new big contradiction/problem?
Its now hard for Google to still claim with a straight face that they aren't in the ad-serving business and that they don't compete directly with DoubleClick. Google's "black box" search engine is the opposite of "open"Submitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2007-08-22 13:47Google continues its self-serving campaign of "open for you, but not for me."
Elise Ackerman of the San Jose Mercury News had a noteworthy and relevant article on this issue: "Google's growth has come at a price."
Well Google, if openness is truly an important principle to Google, why not agree to make Google's search algorithm, which is the industry's ultimate "Black Box", "open" to all so all can benefit? WSJ "Googling 'Monopoly' Op-Ed SuperficialSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2007-08-21 13:56Google must be worried about their Doubleclick acquisition having arranged an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today entitled Googling 'Monopoly' by PFF President Tom Lenard and Emory University professor Paul Rubin.
First, let me say that I genuinely respect Mr Lenard and Mr. Rubin, and understand that on antitrust issues, analysts can honestly disagree on outcomes and impacts. Debunking more net neutrality revisionist historySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2007-08-20 22:34Liberal blogger Matt Stoller of OpenLeft has a post at Save the Internet that lamely tries to rewrite "the history of net neutrality" in his commentary about his interview with FCC Commisioner Michael Copps. Pages |