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You are hereEbayAmerica’s Title II Protectionism Will Hurt Google & Silicon Valley in EUSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2015-02-19 11:05Last November, President Obama effectively abandoned America’s longstanding free trade Internet policy established by President Clinton, in favor of a protectionist Internet industrial policy to benefit America’s national champions, Silicon Valley, under the guise of “net neutrality” policy. Flipping U.S. Internet policy from global digital free trade to maximal national Internet regulation could end up hurting Silicon Valley the most, because they most benefit from, and depend on, the current free flow of information globally on the Internet. Ironically, America also is forfeiting the digital free trade policy high ground by leading the world toward a “Splinternet” vision of more nationalistic maximal utility regulation of the Internet and its content. In particular, it will be much harder for the U.S. to credibly object that the EU’s: creation of a European Digital Single Market (DSM), tightening of the EU-U.S. Data Protection Safe Harbor, and its aggressive enforcement of EU antitrust, privacy, and tax laws against Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple, is protectionist, when America’s new FCC utility regulation of the Internet is a transparently protectionist American industrial policy to advantage America’s national champions in Silicon Valley. FCC Internet Utility Regulation Is a Really Stupid Idea -- Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Mon, 2015-02-09 20:07Net Neutrality Bait & Switch to Title II – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2015-02-03 22:41Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed “Net Neutrality Bait & Switch to Title II.”
*** FCC Open Internet Order Series Part 1: The Many Vulnerabilities of an Open Internet [9-24-09] Part 2: Why FCC proposed net neutrality regs unconstitutional, NPR Online Op-ed [9-24-09] Testing the FCC’s Net Neutrality Political Calculus – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2015-01-28 21:42Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed “Testing the FCC’s Net Neutrality Political Calculus.”
*** FCC Open Internet Order Series Part 1: The Many Vulnerabilities of an Open Internet [9-24-09] The FCC’s De-Americanization of the Internet – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Sun, 2015-01-25 18:11Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed “The FCC’s De-Americanization of the Internet.” It explains how the FCC’s expected U-turn on Title II affects digital free trade by contrasting the very different Clinton-Net and Obama-Net visions for the Internet. *** FCC Open Internet Order Series Part 1: The Many Vulnerabilities of an Open Internet [9-24-09] NetCompetition on FCC Publicly Sharing its Proposed Open Internet OrderSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2015-01-23 11:49FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 23, 2015 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407
FCC Should Lead by Example and Be Publicly Open & Transparent about its Internet Proposal Why Block or Throttle Public Openness & Transparency in a FCC Open Internet Order Vote? WASHINGTON D.C. – The following may be attributed to Scott Cleland, Chairman of NetCompetition: Why the FCC Needs Congress – My Daily Caller Op-edSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2015-01-20 22:24Please don’t miss my latest Daily Caller op-ed “Why the FCC Needs Congress.” While the FCC may imagine it does not need any authority from this Congress to legally enforce an Open Internet, it does need the Congress legally, operationally and politically. ***
FCC Open Internet Order Series Part 1: The Many Vulnerabilities of an Open Internet [9-24-09] Need for Modernizing Communications Law – Seeing the Forest for the TreesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Sun, 2015-01-18 17:35Current attention on the “tree” of the FCC’s pending Open Internet Order vote on net neutrality, has many “missing the forest” of additional serious problems with outdated 1934 communications law. To put net neutrality in the context of all the legal authority obsolescence problems faced by the FCC, please don’t miss this eye-opening one-page summary (here and below) of my latest white paper, “The Need for Modernizing Communications Law for American Consumers.” NetCompetition Statement on New FCC Net Neutrality LegislationSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2015-01-16 16:52FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 16, 2015 Contact: Scott Cleland 703-217-2407 The FCC Should Defer to an Engaged Congress to Best Resolve its Real Internet Authority Gaps There is No Legitimate Policy/Process Reason Why FCC Can’t Wait a Reasonable Period of Time to Seek a Permanent Bipartisan Congressional Solution Rather than the FCC’s 0-2 Legal Record
WASHINGTON D.C. – The following may be attributed to Scott Cleland, Chairman of NetCompetition:
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