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NYTimes: deregulation = “help from the government”

September 23, 2013

Entrepreneurs looking to the crowd to finance their big ideas just got a little extra help from the government. What’s this? A new federal subsidy?...


The FTC’s 100th Year: Commissioner Ohlhausen on the Future of the Federal Trade Commission

September 20, 2013

Join TechFreedom and the International Center for Law and Economics on September 27 as we commemorate the 99th anniversary of the Federal Trade Commission Act....


Making Broadband Deployment Easier

September 20, 2013

The White House recently announced positive steps to speed up broadband deployment “by reducing barriers for companies to install broadband infrastructure on Federal properties and roads.”...


Don’t count on government to build out broadband

September 18, 2013

$200 billion  invested in cable infrastructure since 1996 $23 billion  invested by Verizon in its FiOS fiber network since 2004 $14 billion  invested by AT&T...


E-Rate Reform Should Avoid Arbitrary Speed Goals, Urge TechFreedom & ICLE

September 18, 2013

TechFreedom and the International Center for Law & Economics recently filed comments on modernizing the federal E-Rate Program, which helps fund telecommunications services for schools...


The first rule of FISA Court is “You do not talk about FISA Court”

September 17, 2013

Privacy advocates are furious at today’s report in The Guardian that no telcos ever challenged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) orders but they miss the point: classifying legal...