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Comcast / Time Warner Deal Will Expand Net Neutrality, We Tell Mashable

February 13, 2014

With Comcast hoping to buy Time Warner, many are raising specters of a cable monopoly that will harm consumers and restrict competition. However, this is...


PROTECT Act Would Transfer Regulation of Low-Risk, Non-Diagnostic Health IT from FDA

February 10, 2014

The FDA’s crackdown on 23andMe has called attention to the agency’s ability to apply the most stringent form of regulation to emerging technologies that promise...


Net neutrality decision gave FCC sweeping power over Internet, we tell NYTimes

February 10, 2014

Ed Wyatt has a great profile of the FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s first 100 days office, quoting us on the dangerous implications of how broadly...


New Study: Cookies increase ad prices 60-200%, helping to fund “free” content

February 10, 2014

“Money makes the world go round, the world go round, the world go round…” For web publishers – from news to email to search engines...


New Net Neutrality Bill Wouldn’t Close Pandora’s Box of Regulation: Berin Szoka in Watchdog

February 4, 2014

Following the Open Internet Order’s defeat before the DC Circuit Court, some members of Congress have introduced a new bill to “temporarily” bring back the...


Unnecessary Net Neutrality Bill Fails to Address Real Threat to Open Internet: Section 706

February 3, 2014

Today, Sen. Markey and Reps. Waxman and Eshoo introduced the Open Internet Preservation Act of 2014, a bill that would reinstate the Federal Communications Commission’s...