There’s nothing like a quick trip to the Old Country to advise regulators on the folly of our New World ways. I’ll be speaking in Brussels on Oct. 14 and in London on the 15th to help our cousins structure their telecom regulations appropriately. These events are coordinated by my friends at the Institute for [...]
A fellow named Paul Korzeniowski has written a very good, concise piece on the Comcast action at the FCC for Forbes, Feds And Internet Service Providers Don’t Mix. He manages to describe the controversy in clear and unemotional language, which contrasts sharply with the neutralists who constantly use emotionally-charged terms such as “blocking,” “Deep Packet [...]
I score the debate for McCain. The first part, on the financial crisis & bailout, was even, since neither candidate is truly in the loop. They’ve both tried to look they were involved, with McCain pulling the stunt about suspending his campaign to rescue the bill, but it didn’t work: the deal was still uncertain [...]
Google has apparently filed an application for a system that allows bandwidth provider to bid on phone calls:
Google’s patent is called “Flexible Communication Systems and Methods†and the abstract says:
“A method of initiating a telecommunication session for a communication device include submitting to one or more telecommunication carriers a proposal for a telecommunication session, receiving [...]
Today is OneWebDay, the annual exercise in promoting the World Wide Web and touting its many benefits. Each year the event has a theme, and this year’s is something to do with the American election, which is a fine, if somewhat parochial issue for a global event.
OWD is the brainchild of law professor Susan Crawford, [...]
While looking for the essence of Lessig’s “code is law” formulation, I happened on this little gem:
If there is one thing clear about the value we demand of East Coast Code, it is transparency. Secret laws are not law. And if there is one thing clear about the recent panic about privacy, it is that [...]
Today was the deadline for Comcast to tell the FCC how its existing congestion management system works, as well as how its “protocol agnostic” replacement is going to work. To the dismay of some critics, they’ve done just that in a filing that was hand-delivered as well as electronically filed today. It will be posted [...]
John McCain is many things, but “conservative” is not one of them. See Wick Allison’s succinct essay on why he’s voting for Obama after donating the maximum to McCain during the primaries, A Conservative for Obama:
Liberalism always seemed to me to be a system of “oughts.†We ought to do this or that because it’s [...]
Conservative friends especially need to read David Brooks today on the role of experience and prudence in the conservative movement:
Conservatism was once a frankly elitist movement. Conservatives stood against radical egalitarianism and the destruction of rigorous standards. They stood up for classical education, hard-earned knowledge, experience and prudence. Wisdom was acquired through immersion in the [...]
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