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Video: FTC Commissioner Ohlhausen on Protecting Consumers in the Digital Age

October 4, 2013

Before her stint as Federal Trade Commissioner, Maureen Ohlhausen oversaw the FTC’s Office of Policy Planning and helped to author the 2007 “FTC at 100”...


The Federal Trade Commission Has Become the Federal Technology Commission: TF in TechDirt

September 26, 2013

Today, the 99th anniversary of the founding of the Federal Trade Commission, TF’s Berin Szoka and Geoffrey Manne wrote in TechDirt about the agency’s dominant...


FTC Commissioner Wright Proposes Long Overdue Standards for Prosecuting Unfair Methods of Competition

June 19, 2013

Today, Federal Trade Commissioner Josh Wright released a draft Policy Statement on Unfair Methods of Competition in a speech to the New York State Bar...


Manne to Testify at House Hearing on State of Video Competition

June 11, 2013

On Wednesday, TechFreedom Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the International Center for Law & Economics, Geoffrey Manne, will present testimony at the US House...


FCC Should Reject Competitors’ Requests to Bar AT&T, Verizon from Spectrum Auction

March 13, 2013

Yesterday, TechFreedom filed comments asking the FCC to conduct the open auctions of spectrum reclaimed from broadcasters as Congress intended in passing the Spectrum Act...


FCC Should Conduct Open Spectrum Auctions as Congress Intended, Leave Competition Concerns to Antitrust

March 13, 2013

Yesterday, TechFreedom filed comments asking the FCC to conduct the open auctions of spectrum reclaimed from broadcasters as Congress intended in passing the Spectrum Act last year....