July 20, 2009
All a Twitter: How Social Networking Shaped Iran's Election Protests
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #2300)
During the recent Iranian election protests, cyber activists organized via social-networking tools to share information and updates about unfolding events around the world, as well ...
July 20, 2009
Executive Summary: All a Twitter: How Social Networking Shaped Iran's Election Protests
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D.
(Executive Summary #2300)
During the recent Iranian election protests, cyber activists organized via social-networking tools to share information and updates about unfolding events around the world, as well ...
January 16, 2009
Promoting Innovation with Patent Reform: A Memo to President-elect Obama
By Andrew M. Grossman
(Special Report #0047)
President-elect Obama, you are right to recognize that our intellectual property system is absolutely essential to the global competitiveness of America and its leading industries. ...
December 16, 2008
Building Cyber Security Leadership for the 21st Century
By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D., and Eric Sayers
(Backgrounder #2218)
A cyber-strategic leadership program is necessary for constructing a resiliency strategy (methods for ensuring that basic structures of global, national, and local economies remain strong ...
May 6, 2008
The FCC's Cross-Ownership Rule: Turning the Page on Media
By James L. Gattuso
(Backgrounder #2133)
Critics of the FCC’s decision to allow newspapers to be owned jointly with TV and radio stations under certain limited circumstances argue that cross-ownership would ...
November 7, 2007
The Comcast Net Neutrality Controversy: A Discussion
By Adam Thierer, Jerry Brito, Edward Felten, Richard Bennett, and James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #1696)
Panelists discuss the technology, policy, and politics of Comcast's controversial efforts to throttle BitTorrent traffic on its broadband network.
October 22, 2007
A Scare for the Web: Will Congress Let the Internet Tax Ban Expire?
By James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #1673)
Congress should make permanent the moratorium on the taxation of Internet access.
September 27, 2007
Beyond the Fairness Doctrine: Radio’s Fight over the XM–Sirius Merger
By Edwin Meese III and James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #1646)
Regulators should permit a merger that would strengthen competition and could lead to improved services for consumers.
July 9, 2007
Comments to FCC on Sirius - XM Radio merger
By Edwin Meese, III and James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo )
In accordance with the Public Notice issued by the Commission on June 8, 2007 we respectfully submit these comments on the applications of XM Satellite ...
April 3, 2006
Good News, Bad News: Telecom Reform in the House
By James Gattuso
(WebMemo #1026)
After several false starts, telecommunications reform is once again moving in Congress. As soon as this week, the House Commerce Committee will vote on a ...
March 27, 2006
Hanging Up on Regulation: The Case for Telecommunications Reform
By The Honorable John Ensign
(Heritage Lecture #932)
Advances in technology have left the 1996 Telecommunications Act behind. America needs to move from a world of stifling government-managed competition to a consumer-controlled marketplace, ...
February 15, 2005
Broadcast Indecency: More Regulation Not the Answer
By James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #666)
Conservatives should be wary of regulating speech.
February 7, 2005
Ma Bell's Retirement: No Big Deal
By James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #657)
AT&T got bought. Unthinkable? Not really.
December 14, 2004
Telecom Competition Rules: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
By James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #621)
The FCC's telecoms unbundling rules require a rethink
October 26, 2004
Broadband by 2007: A Look at the President's Internet Initiative
By James L. Gattuso, John M. Kneuer, David McIntosh, Harold Furchtgott-Roth, and Peter Pitsch
(Heritage Lecture #852)
The Bush Administration has set a national goal for the spread of broadband communications by the year 2007. The broad objective is to create universal ...
September 27, 2004
Locking the Door Against Internet Trespass: Are New Laws Needed?
By James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #575)
Legislation is not the right answer to the spyware problem.
August 23, 2004
Internet File Sharing: The Evidence So Far and What It Means for the Future
By Norbert J. Michel, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1790)
Internet file sharing threatens artists' ability to sell their music through digital downloading because the digital files available from artists are virtually indistinguishable from those ...
June 1, 2004
Congress and Postal Reform: Less than Letter-Perfect
By James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #514)
The Postal reform bills in Congress fall short of the kind of real transformation that is needed.
April 8, 2004
Are U.S. Telecom Networks Public Property?
By James Gattuso and Norbert Michel, Ph.D.
(Backgrounder #1745)
Today's telecommunications networks are largely the result of recent investment—not a gift from the era of statutory monopolies. Additionally, investments made after the Telecommunications Act ...
February 24, 2004
Bundles of Trouble: The FCC's Telephone Competition Rules
By James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #432)
Almost exactly one year after the FCC adopted new regulations governing competition in telephone service, telecom regulation once again under debate.
February 11, 2004
The Economic Impact of Taxing Internet Access
By Norbert J. Michel, Ph.D., and William W. Beach
(WebMemo #424)
Economic analysis predicts that taxing the Internet would reduce GDP, disposable income, and employment.
November 7, 2003
The Internet: Why the Taxman Should Not Cometh
By James L. Gattuso
(WebMemo #362)
State politicians are in an uproar over a U.S. Senate bill, S. 150, that would prevent state governments from imposing taxes on Internet services. The ...
October 7, 2003
Adjusting the Picture: Media Concentration or Diversity?
By James L. Gattuso, Benjamin Compaine, Robert Okun, Chris Core
(Heritage Lecture #798)
The Federal Communication Commission's decision to relax limits on television and radio ownership has sparked a wide debate on media concentration in America. Contrary to ...
May 29, 2003
The Myth of Media Concentration: Why the FCC's Media Ownership Rules Are Unnecessary
By James Gattuso
(WebMemo #284)
Despite many mergers in the media industry in recent years, Americans today actually enjoy more diversity and competition in the media than at any other ...
April 16, 2003
Pirates and Posses: The Battle over Digital Copyright
By James L. Gattuso, Bruce Mehlman, Alec French, Gary Shapiro, and James V. DeLong
(Heritage Lecture #785)
The question of content is paradoxical, in a way, in the digital age. The blessing of the digital age is that you can make an ...
February 10, 2003
Local Telephone Competition: Unbundling the FCC's Rules
By James L. Gattuso
(Backgrounder #1621)
The FCC is expected to vote this week on new rules governing competition for local telephone service. It should rewrite its rules to limit mandated ...
November 5, 2002
Reaffirming Intellectual Property in an Information Age
By James E. Rogan
(Heritage Lecture #769)
Intellectual property is the principal engine for the creation of wealth in our society. We must not allow the canons of our constitutionally based intellectual ...
September 25, 2002
Self-Defense: A Different Tune on Copyright
By James L. Gattuso and Norbert J. Michel
(Executive Memorandum #835)
Representative Howard Berman (D-CA) proposed a radically different approach to solve the digital copyright violation problem: allowing copyright owners to use digital self-help measures to ...
February 25, 2002
The Tauzin-Dingell Telecom Bill: Untangling the Confusion
By James L. Gattuso
(Executive Memorandum #802)
Broadband technologies hold great promise for American consumers, as well as for the U.S. economy. Thus far, progress toward realizing that promise has been good, ...
October 6, 2000
Science and Technology Policy in 2001: New Congress, New President, New Policies?
By The Honorable Bob Walker
(Heritage Lecture #688)
Government must fund research, focus on mission-driven technology, minimize regulation, adapt laws as technology changes, and learn to react properly to technological changes
June 9, 2000
The Technology Revolution: Road to Freedom or Road to Serfdom?
By James K. Glassman
(Heritage Lecture #668)
Regulation threatens the new economy
June 8, 2000
Testimony on Corporate Welfare
By Peter B. Sperry
(Testimony )
Advanced Technology Program, other government grants, unecessarily give taxpayer dollars to corporations without benefitting the public
April 25, 2000
After the Net Tax Commission: The Gregg-Kohl Nexus Solution
By Adam D. Thierer
(Backgrounder #1363)
'Net taxes should only be acceptable if the vendor in question has a substantial presense in the jurisdiction of the taxing body.
April 20, 2000
How Free Computers Are Filling the Digital Divide
By Adam D. Thierer
(Executive Summary #1361)
How Free Computers Are Filling the Digital Divide
April 20, 2000
How Free Computers Are Filling the Digital Divide
By Adam D. Thierer
(Backgrounder #1361)
Free and inexpensive computr hardware and services are outpacing artificial measures in increasing access to technology
February 1, 2000
A "Digital Divide" or a Deluge of Opportunity?
By Adam Thierer
(Executive Memorandum #646)
Government action to spread Internet access unnecessary, unconstitutional
October 5, 1999
Why Congress Should Counter Efforts to Tax Internet Commerce
By Adam D. Thierer
(Executive Memorandum #628)
The ITFA established an Advisory Commission on Electronic Commerce to study the feasibility of taxing electronic transactions done via the Internet.
September 7, 1999
Broadband Telecommunications for the 21st Century: A Legislative Report Card
By Adam D. Thierer
(Executive Summary #1318)
BG1318ES: Broadband Telecommunications for the 21st Century: A Legislative Report Card
September 7, 1999
Broadband Telecommunications for the 21st Century: A Legislative Report Card
By Adam D. Thierer
(Backgrounder #1318)
Five bills currently before Congress attempt to address the shortage of high-speed telecommunications capacity, especially for accessing the Internet.
September 2, 1999
Broadband Telecommunications for the 21st Century: Five Principles for Reform
By Adam D. Thierer
(Executive Summary #1317)
BG1317ES: Broadband Telecommunications for the 21st Century: Five Principles for Reform
September 1, 1999
Broadband Telecommunications for the 21st Century: Five Principles for Reform
By Adam D. Thierer
(Backgrounder #1317)
FCC Chairman William Kennard called for the creation of "a national, competitive, deregulatory telecommunications policy."
July 20, 1999
Time to Let the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Stand on Its Own
By Adam D. Thierer
(Executive Memorandum #613)
H.R. 2384 seeks to increase the CPB's funding from the current fiscal year (FY) 1999 level of $250 million to $300 million for FY 2000 ...
May 11, 2009
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