Net Neutrality Regs: Still Unnecessary (Scholar Comments)

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT

When Congress was first considering network neutrality regulations in 2006, pro-regulation activists insisted that neutrality rules were critical to preserve the open Internet. Congress chose not to enact regulations, and three years later the Internet is as open and competitive as ever.

Enacting regulations is no more urgent today than it was then. And there's a real risk that new regulations will tie the Internet up in red tape and limit future innovation. This danger is especially severe in the wireless sector, where technologies and business models continue to evolve rapidly.

Social Conventions, Online and Offline (Commentary)

Sun, 24 May 2009 00:00:00 EDT

People are used to dividing the world into broadcast media (television, newspapers) and point-to-point communication (the telephone, face-to-face communication). Because the Web has many aspects of broadcast media, people often talk about the information we put on social media sites as "public," as ...

Timothy B. Lee (Author at The Cato Institute)

Net Neutrality Regs: Still Unnecessary (Scholar Comments)

Social Conventions, Online and Offline (Commentary)