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Retransmission Consent Complaints Don’t Withstand Market Analysis
It appears that Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler is returning to a competition-based approach to communications regulation. Chairman Wheeler’s emphasis on “competition,...
View ArticleIt turns out people don't like being spied on after all
Did you know that the federal government can get access to your emails because of a loophole in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA). The loophole means that after 180 days, your...
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Today in Liberty: Obamacare's missing Millennials, data review urges privacy...
“The strongest continuous thread in America’s political tradition is skepticism about government.”— George Will— Just 28 percent of Obamacare enrollees are Millennials: The Obama administration...
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Stop Congress from allowing Obama's NSA to collect more of your personal data
At a time when the National Security Agency can collect the phone records and communications of millions of innocent Americans without a warrant or cause, the Senate Intelligence Committee is pushing a...
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Surprise! 90% of Internet users caught up in NSA dragnet surveillance aren't...
The NSA apologists have told Americans countless times that the agency’s collection programs target only those believed to be involved in terrorist activity. Though they admit that Americans are caught...
View ArticleFCC Should State the Obvious: Telephone Service Is Not a Monopoly
Given the rate at which telephone companies are losing customers when they cannot raise prices as a regulatory matter, it is preposterous to continue presuming that they could raise prices as an...
View ArticleShould We Use the “One Ring” to Control the Internet?
Three rings for the broadcast-kings filling the sky,Seven for the cable-lords in their head-end halls,Nine for the telco-men doomed to die,One for the White House to make its callsOn Capitol Hill where...
View ArticleOn Digital Privacy, Congress’ Offer Is This: Nothing
Written by Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institute. Posted with permission from Cato @ Liberty.It had the makings of a shockingly reasonable legislative bargain: Two outdated federal...
View ArticleNetflix Blocking Internet Access to HD Movies
At the Consumer Electronic Show two weeks ago, Netflix announced that it would block consumer access to high definition and 3D movies (HD) for customers of Internet service providers (ISPs) that...
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We Already Knew About NSA's PRISM Program
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know the National Security Agency (NSA) has been using a program called PRISM to collect “metadata,” under a broad interpretation of Section 215 of the...
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