Technology

George Gilder explains his opposition to the FCC ruling on net neutrality, arguing that taxing and regulating the internet like it was 1934 will surely stifle investment and innovation, and will turn bandwidth abundance into scarcity. Writes Gilder: “The Internet is a multifarious engine of real innovations, launching new and transitory monopolies with every new phase of its tumultuous growth. An unnecessary effort to suppress every monopoly would bring all this innovation to a halt.” Continue reading . . .

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released its disastrous new network neutrality rules earlier this month, officially signaling to the world that the U.S. will adopt a policy destined to stifle technological advancement and put network investment into neutral.  By heeding President Obama’s call to make the Internet a government-regulated public utility, the FCC has adopted a system equipped to regulate Read More ›

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Writing at The Stream, Hance Haney, Director and Senior Fellow of the Technology & Democracy Project, gives his analysis of this week’s FCC ruling on net neutrality. Read his explanation of why FCC net neutrality regulation is a bad idea.

Under pressure to impose net neutrality-type regulation in the late ‘90s, the Democratic chairman of the Federal Communications Commission said that the “best decision government ever made with respect to the Internet was the decision that the FCC made . . . not to impose regulation on it.” Indeed, a bipartisan consensus has allowed the Internet to flourish in the absence of suffocating Read More ›

How much danger, really, are we facing from foreign attacks on America’s electronic infrastructure? Some, like our senior fellow George Gilder, are skeptical. But another senior fellow, John Wohlstetter, is more concerned. Here is “Faust’s Networks,” his article today at American Spectator.

This article, published by BW BusinessWorld, references a Discovery Institute study: A study by the Discovery Institute estimates that new technologies will drive online traffic up by 50 times its current rate in the next 10 years. This is a prime reason telecom service providers are opting for FTTH networks over copper as a potential solution for better connectivity. The Read More ›

Net neutrality is simply a policy that forbids privately owned broadband networks from discriminating in how they provide transmission for producers of any legal content. We’ve had a successful de facto net neutrality policy in place for the better part of 20 years. So what’s all the fuss? Some believe the policy should be expanded, with the Federal Communications Commission Read More ›

This article, published by The Advocate, mentions Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Hance Haney: … Hance Haney, director of technology and democracy project for the Discovery Institute, a Seattle think tank, said by removing the carrier of last resort provision, AT&T won’t bear the cost of maintaining existing technology. The rest of the article can be found here.