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“Save the Internet by Doing Nothing,” Slate, January 28, 2011. In connection with the New America Foundation’s Future Tense conference, Larry’s first article for Slate described the mismatch between disruptive technologies and modern democratic governments. The essay was selected by The Atlantic as one of the five best Internet postings of the week. |
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“Tech Priorities for New Congress: From Old to New,” CNET News.com, January 19, 2011. Reporting from the annual State of the Net Congress of the Congressional Internet Caucus, Larry reported on the likely technology priorities for the new Congress, including nullification of the FCC’s net neutrality ruling, spectrum and Universal Service reform, privacy and domain name seizures. |
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“Spectrum Worries at CES: Deja vu all Over Again,” The Wall Street Journal All Things Digital, January 8, 2011. Larry’s second dispatch from CES was picked up by the Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital. FCC Commissioners, Congressional staff, and industry represented made clear that reallocating limited spectrum for fast-growing mobile broadband uses had become a top priority for the FCC. Unfortunately, that was the message at last year’s CES as well. |
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“Net Neutrality Fight far From Over,” CNET News.com, January 7, 2011. Larry’s first of two posts from this year’s Consumer Electronics Show revealed the angry mood among Republicans of the incoming Congress regarding the FCC’s December net neutrality order. A Verizon executive refused to rule out the possibility of challenging the order in court–which the company did soon after. |
Larry to testify before House Judiciary Subcommittee
Larry has been called as an expert witness by Rep. Bob Goodlatte, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, Competition, and the Internet to testify on Tuesday, Feb. 15th. Larry’s testimony will address the Federal Communications Commission’s Dec. 23, 2010 Report and Order on Preserving the Open Internet–aka the infamous net neutrality rules. This will be the first Congressional hearing on the Order. More details to come.
Two Years on the Internet Equals an Eternity
Video is now available for all of the excellent programming at this year’s State of The Net 2011 conference. (Programming will also be available over time on C-SPAN’s video library.) The Conference, organized by the Advisory Committee to the Congressional Internet Caucus, featured Members of Congress, leading academics, Administration, agency, and Congressional staff and other provocateurs. Topics this year ranged from social networking, Wikileaks, COICA, copyright, privacy, security, broadband policy and, of course, the end-of-the-year vote by the FCC to approve new rules for network management by broadband providers, aka net neutrality. Continue reading
