net neutrality

Goodbye Open Internet

by Daniel Taylor on 10 August, 2010

While everyone else is telling you that — with Google and Verizon behind the effort — we now will have Network Neutrality and an Open Internet in perpetuity. I’ll say the exact opposite. This proposal is the death knell of the Open Internet.

A Synopsis of Internet Regulation

by Daniel Taylor on 2 November, 2009

Bob Cannon at the FCC has a great post summarizing forty-some odd years of data (now Internet) regulation. If you feel inclined to Tweet about Net Neutrality or to weigh in about some form of Internet regulation, you might want to read his longer paper about the Computer Inquiries.

Finally, A Real Study About Behavioral Targeting

1 October 2009

Thanks to researchers at Penn and Berkeley, this New York Times article is the best one I’ve seen written on consumer attitudes toward online behavioral targeting (BT). So what’s next? Will this get rolled into Net Neutrality regulation? Or will the FTC take the lead and suggest a different avenue?

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Net Neutrality: Keep Your Pants On!

21 September 2009

Why a speech and a proposal are far from legislation. And why regulation doesn’t always work as intended.

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