Today, I'm participating in the Technology Policy Summit in San Jose. It's a great event bringing together the biggest players from Silicon Valley and Washington, DC to discuss key technology policy issues. Disclaimer: ACT is a sponsor of the event, Jonathan Zuck is speaking at the event, and I'm on [...]
The International Telecommunication Union has elected its new Secretary-General to a four-year term. Hamadoun Toure recently said that the United Nations will not try to take the lead in determining the future of the Internet. The Mercury News reports that Toure said:It is not my intention to take over the [...]
I'd like to call out an interesting development from the past week that is a great example of how the Internet can do an end run around traditional regulation--in this case, federal broadcast indecency rules. As described very well in this NY Times article in yesterday's Arts section, Saturday Night [...]
The phrase has been a popular refrain here at the Internet Governance Forum. While it certainly sounds good, it is being used to justify everything from tweaking copyright law to outright theft. Jamie love and many from the audience of a plenary on Openness brought up the topic of [...]
I love to watch Jamie Love speak because of fluidity with which he weaves the latest joke or theory into his discourse as though its established fact. There’s a claim that’s been brewing that Microsoft has been “letting piracy pass” in the past in order to gain market share and [...]