Free State Foundation Distinguished Adjunct Senior Scholar Richard Epstein filed comments at the FCC on August 19, 2010, which fault the consumer groups' opposition to the proposed Comcast-NBCU merger. Professor Epstein's comments identify three systematic analytical mistakes and offer a superior analytical framework. Read his Reply Comments here.
Deborah Taylor Tate, Free State Foundation Distinguished Adjunct Senior Fellow and former FCC commissioner, opposes Internet regulation in an op-ed in the Sacramento Bee. Read "Don't Stifle Internet Services With More Regulation" here.
FSF filed comments on July 15, 2010 at the Federal Communications Commission opposing the so-called "Third Way" proposal to regulate Internet service providers as common carriers. Read the comments here.
Read Free State Foundation President Randolph May's "Independence Day 2010" message here.
Glen Robinson, a member of FSF's Board of academic Advisors and a former member of the Federal Communications Commission, wants to know why the agency, in its "Future of Media" project is asking so many questions. Read his skeptical critique, The FCC's 'Future of Media' Project: 'Let Them Eat Broccoli,' here.
Free State Foundation President Randolph May argued against government funding of public media, at least without a plan for reduction or elimination of such taxpayer funding, at an FCC hearing on the "Future of Media" on April 30, 2010. The press release is here.
The video from FSF's "Future of Media" program held on April 16, 2010, at the National Press Club is now available here.
"The FCC's 'Future of Media' Inquiry: What Is the FCC Doing - And Why?" This April 16, 2010 event at noon at the National Press Club features the FCC's Steven Waldman, who is leading the FCC's inquiry. Other speakers include James Taranto, editor of the Wall Street Journal's OpinionJournal.com; Donna Gregg, FSF Adjunct Senior Fellow and former chief of the FCC's Media Bureau; and Deborah Taylor Tate, FSF Distinguished Adjunct Senior Fellow and former FCC Commissioner. All of the details are here.
Free State Foundation Distinguished Adjunct Senior Scholar Richard Epstein again responds to CFA's Mark Cooper regarding the proposed Comcast-NBCU merger. Read Professor Epstein's new Perspectives from FSF Scholars here. Professor Epstein explains why Cooper's broad-brush critiques are wrong.
The video from FSF's Annual Winter Telecom Policy Conference, held at the National Press Club on January 29, 2010, is now available. Click here.
In an essay published on February 16, 2010, on CBSNews.com, Free State Foundation President Randolph May explains that: "The 'public option' for health care - which the American public came to see as symptomatic of government overreach - certainly helped sink the most grandiose visions of ObamaCare. It is possible that proposals for a 'public option' of sorts for new Internet regulation could sink the Federal Communications Commission's efforts to adopt new broadband policies." To read the complete essay, click here.
In a new Perspectives from FSF Scholars, Richard Epstein, one of the nation's foremost law and economic scholars, demonstrates that a critic of the Comcast - NBCU merger has his analysis upside down. Professor Epstein explains why Mark Cooper, Director of Research for the Consumer Federation of America, "is not able to perform a minor intellectual miracle of having an upside down antitrust analysis saved by a topsy-turvy First Amendment analysis. Professor Epstein is Free State Foundation Distinguished Adjunct Senior Scholar. Read Professor Epstein's Perspectives here.
At the Free State Foundation's Annual Winter Telecom Policy Conference on January 29, 2010, FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell gave a stirring opening keynote address which effectively made the case, backed up by lots of facts and figures, for regulatory modesty with respect to the FCC's broadband plan and the agency's proposal for new Internet regulation. Read the full text of "The Best Broadband Plan for America: First, Do No Harm" here.
Free State Foundation President Randolph May has released the agenda for FSF's Annual Winter Telecom Policy Conference. The news release is here, and the conference agenda is here.
Randolph May, President of the Free State Foundation, has an essay on National Review Online opposing the Federal Communications Commission's proposal to implement net neutrality regulation. Read "Overregulating the Internet" here.
Free State Foundation President Randolph May and Adjunct Fellow Seth Cooper filed comments at the Federal Communications Commission on January 14, 2010, opposing the agency's proposal to adopt new Internet regulations.
On January 29, 2010, the Free State Foundation will hold the Second Annual Winter Telecom Policy Conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC from 9 AM to 2 PM. The conference speaker line-up and registration details are here.
Free State Foundation President Randolph May explains in a December 15, 2009 op-ed in the Washington Times why proposals to mandate net neutrality likely violate the First Amendment rights of Internet service providers. Read "Avoiding the Constitution" here.
In a Thanksgiving Day message, Free State Foundation President Randolph May recalls Ronald Reagan's Farewell Address vision of Pilgrim John Winthrop's "shining city upon the hill." Calling Winthrop "an early freedom man," Reagan tied freedom, and the shining city upon the hill, to free markets and free speech -- worth reflecting upon everyday, but certainly on Thanksgiving.
Free State Foundation Distinguished Adjunct Senior Fellow Deborah Taylor Tate, a former FCC Commissioner, moderated a panel on October 6, 2009, in Geneva, Switzerland, at the prestigious International Telecommunications Union Telecom World 2009 Conference. The panel was entitled, "Managing Digital Identity: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly." Her introductory remarks for the panel on the important topic of cybersecurity are here.
Free State Foundation President Randolph May was quoted approvingly in the lead editorial in the September 28, 2009 Washington Post opposing the FCC's proposal to impose net neutrality mandates. Read the editorial, "The FCC's Heavy Hand," opposing net neutrality here.
In an article in the Wall Street Journal on September 19, 2009, entitled, "U.S. as Traffic Cop in Web Fight," Free State Foundation President Randolph May was quoted opposing the plans of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to propose new rules to regulate the Internet. May stated: "With only a few isolated instances of complaints alleging net neutrality-like abuses ever having been filed, it is a mistake." Read the full article here.
On September 10, 2009, from 9:00 AM - 12:00 Noon, the Free State Foundation will hold an event at the National Press Club to celebrate the release of its new book, "New Directions in Communications Policy." Keynote speakers are Meredith Attwell Baker, Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission, and Blair Levin, Executive Director of the FCC's Omnibus Broadband Initiative. Other speakers include Professors James Speta, Christopher Yoo, and John Mayo, all nationally known experts in telecommunications law and policy. Cleck here for program and registration information and here for the agenda.
Deborah Taylor Tate, Free State Foundation Distinguished Adjunct Senior Fellow, published a commentary in the Baltimore Sun on August 9, 2009, urging the FCC to act quickly to make Lifeline/Linkup discounts available to low income persons in order increase broadband adoption rates among those for whom price may be a deterrent. Read the commentary here.
Free State Foundation President Randolph J. May submittted reply comments in the FCC's proceeding to develop a national broadband plan. In his comments, May urged the FCC to reject the proposals of those parties urging the agency to adopt a plethora of new broadband regualtions. Instead, May stated, "the Commission must make clear that the national plan will be grounded in market-oriented principles that reflect the competitiveness and dynamism of the digital age." Read the press release here and the full reply comments here.
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