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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...


Why the W3C’s “Do Not Track” Working Group is falling apart

September 17, 2013

The Digital Advertising Alliance explains why it’s quitting the Tracking Protection Working Group: Despite extension after extension of its charter year after year by the...


Why can’t we have a rational debate about Net Neutrality?

September 17, 2013

Things like this, from Free Press… Verizon wants to change that structure by setting up tolls in both directions — blocking certain websites or charging...