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You are hereNet NeutralityOn PBS NewsHour Gigi Sohn & I Discuss End of FCC Broadband Privacy OrderSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2017-04-05 10:16Please see PBS NewsHour’s five minute segment here with Gigi Sohn and I discussing Congress’ rescission of the FCC’s unimplemented broadband privacy order that the Wheeler-FCC majority passed last October by a 3-2 vote. Congress right to save consumers from net neutrality privacy rules The Hill Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2017-04-03 15:58
Please see my latest The Hill op-ed: “Congress was right to save consumers from privacy rules imposed under net neutrality.”
Consumer privacy has been the biggest loser from net neutrality proponents’ politicization of privacy. Pai’s FCC is rebooting broadband facilities competition and 5G investmentSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2017-03-17 13:33
Please don’t miss my latest The Hill op-ed: “Pai’s FCC is rebooting broadband facilities competition and 5G investment.”
It uncovers what is important underneath the focus on Title II net neutrality.
Competitive Reality of 5G Threatens Previous-FCC’s Title II Net NeutralitySubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2017-03-07 23:01FCC Chairman Ajit Pai gets it that 5G wireless is a gamechanger for the rationale underlying the Wheeler-FCC’s Title II Open Internet order and net neutrality policy. Fast-changing markets and new competitive realities are a huge threat to the viability of the previous-FCC’s Title II Open Internet Order and net neutrality policy because they are based on the unsupported and unproven assumption that competitive ISPs command monopoly market power. FCC Chairman Pai enjoys a plethora of new competitive evidence that enables this FCC to reverse the previous FCC’s Open Internet order, based on recent tectonic market changes, new competitive realities, and Chairman Pai’s return to FCC policymaking based on real world evidence, reason and the law. Two years is an eternity in Internet time. FCC Chair Pai Shows the Mobile World Congress He’s the Un-WheelerSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2017-02-28 13:48New Trump FCC Chair Ajit Pai’s keynote speech on “Building the 5G Economy” at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona today spotlighted to the communications world that the U.S. FCC is going in a very different policy direction than that of the previous FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, who just happens to be speaking at the same event as a private citizen to a break-out session on “The Fourth Industrial Revolution.” The fact that they are both at the largest communications event in the world delivering starkly divergent messages and visions, on the same day, provides an instructive and illuminating opportunity to juxtapose their contrasting policy approaches. Why Title II Net Neutrality Defenders Fear a Pro-Consumer Ajit Pai FCCSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2017-02-23 10:10Defenders of the previous FCC’s Title II Open Internet Order appear afraid to have a free and open discussion about how Title II net neutrality affects Americanconsumers. Like a poker player’s “tell,” leading Title II net neutrality defenders tellingly resort first to ad hominem attacks in challenging the financial motives of most everyone that is making the pro-consumer case for overturning the previous FCC’s Open Internet order. Why are they leading with ad hominem attacks? As most understand, ad hominem attacks are the refuge of those who know the facts are not on their side of the argument. Ajit Pai will return pro-consumer focus at FCC – The Hill Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2017-02-13 12:29Please see my new The Hill op-ed: “Ajit Pai will return pro-consumer focus at FCC.”
Outdated Telecom Law Poses a Challenge for Agit Pai’s FCC – The Hill Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2017-02-07 10:43Here is my latest The Hill op-ed on How “Outdated Telecom Law Poses a Challenge for Agit Pai’s FCC.”
*** Modernize Obsolete Communications Law Series The New Political Calculus for Net Neutrality – The Hill Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2017-01-25 15:56Rating the FCC’s Net Neutrality Enforcement Policy a Zero -- The Hill Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2017-01-19 15:52Please don’t miss my latest The Hill op-ed entitled “Rating the FCC’s Net Neutrality Enforcement Policy a Zero”
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