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Announcing WHPetitions.info, a New Site to Help the White House Keep Its Petition Promises 13 Aug 2013 | 07:18 pm
President Obama has promised to run the most transparent presidential administration in history, and as part of that initiative, in 2011, the White House set up its We The People site. In their words:...
Sherwin Siy on digital copyright 13 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Sherwin Siy, Vice President of Legal Affairs at Public Knowledge, discusses emerging issues in digital copyright policy. He addresses the Department of Commerce’s recent green paper on digital copyrig...
CBS, Time Warner Cable & TV Blackouts: What Should Washington Do? 12 Aug 2013 | 11:16 pm
CBS and Time Warner Cable have been embroiled in a heated contractual battle over the past week that has resulted in viewers in some major markets losing access to CBS programming. When disputes like ...
What’s the #1 reason why many older Americans use the web? 9 Aug 2013 | 06:58 pm
Answer: To check health information. Seniors who can investigate a symptom online will save a trip to the hospital. Not knowing whether a symptom is serious and not having the ability to investigate t...
Are Privacy Property Rights and Contracts Even Possible? 7 Aug 2013 | 06:33 pm
In my latest essay for the IAPP “Privacy Perspectives” blog , I ponder the question: Why is it that better methods of digital contracting and data ownership have not yet developed to help us protect o...
Is there really a cable/mobile duopoly in America? 7 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
This is the third of a series of three blog posts about broadband in America in response to Susan Crawford’s book Captive Audience and her recent blog post responding to positive assessments of Americ...
Planning for Hypothetical Horribles in Tech Policy Debates 7 Aug 2013 | 01:10 am
In a recent essay here “On the Line between Technology Ethics vs. Technology Policy,” I made the argument that “We cannot possibly plan for all the ‘bad butterfly-effects’ that might occur, and attemp...
Is fiber to the home (FTTH) the network of the future, or are there competing technologies? 6 Aug 2013 | 07:48 pm
This is the second of a series of three blog posts about broadband in America in response to Susan Crawford’s book Captive Audience and her recent blog post responding to positive assessments of Ameri...
Do Europeans and East Asians have better and cheaper broadband than Americans? 5 Aug 2013 | 09:01 pm
I am American earning an industrial PhD in internet economics in Denmark, one of the countries that law professor Susan Crawford praises in her book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly...
Guest Blogging This Week: Roslyn Layton on Broadband Policy 5 Aug 2013 | 08:50 pm
This week it is our pleasure to welcome Roslyn Layton to the TLF, who will be doing some guest blogging on broadband policy issues. Roslyn Layton is a PhD Fellow who studies internet economics at the ...
