Category Archives: Network Neutrality

I filed comments in the Net Neutrality proceeding.   From the first page: * * * I offer these comments to make three points.  First, there have been tions in the media and elsewhere that the FCC’s proposed Net Neutrality rules … Continue reading →

A brief comment on a paper entitled Why the iPhone Won’t Last Forever and What the Government Should Do to Promote its Successor Robert Hahn and Hal J. Singer This paper argues that the iPhone, while popular, will be replaced, … Continue reading →

There is a story in today’s Wall Street Journal about Google’s supposed abandonment of Net Neutrality principles. As someone who dabbles in journalism now and then, I can see the obvious temptation that shapes this story.  It’s the Google – … Continue reading →

The Wall Street Journal’s Net Neutrality piece, as far as I can tell, is trying to drum something out of Google caching and a few things Larry (Lessig) has said about most favored nation prioritization.   Not news.

In my chapter on radio, one of the most interesting, though obviously not in a good way, theorists of broadcast radio is Joseph Goebbels, the old Minister of Enlightenment and Propaganda for the German government in the 1930s. Here are … Continue reading →

In the paper Wireless Carterfone I highlighted a policy that seem destined to get Verizon in trouble: its practice of deciding who gets to send mass text messages. The policy sets Verizon up for obvious violations of Net Neutrality. Reality … Continue reading →

Declan McCullough, my friend and sometimes mentor in photography, has a recent story called  TEN THINGS THAT KILLED NETWORK NEUTRALITY While I appreciate Declan’s taste for drama, the premise of the story is completely false.  Declan seems to believe that, … Continue reading →

I’ve decided to post the original paper I wrote on Net Neutrality but never published in original form. It was called A Proposal for Network Neutrality and I wrote it in the summer of 2002. Later I took parts of … Continue reading →

I enjoyed this letter from football great Steve Largent, asking me to please wake up and get over the 1970s!  Love this. Someone Please Wake-Up Tim Wu! By Steve Largent In a recent essay published in Forbes, Columbia University professor … Continue reading →