Leviathan Spam Send the bits with lasers and chips See the bytes with LED lights Wireless, optical, bandwidth boom A flood of info, a global zoom Now comes Lessig Now comes Wu To tell us what we cannot do The Net, they say, Is under attack Stop! Before we can’t turn back They know best These coder kings So they …
A New Leash on the Net?
Today, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski proposed new regulations on communications networks. We were among the very first opponents of these so-called “net neutrality” rules when they were first proposed in concept back in 2004. Here are a number of our relevant articles over the past few years: “Let There Be Bandwidth” – The Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2006 “The …
Political Noise On the Net
With an agreement between the U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN (the nonprofit Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers, headquartered in California) expiring on September 30, global bureaucrats salivate. As I write today in Forbes, they like to criticize ICANN leadership — hoping to gain political control — but too often ignore the huge success of the private-sector-led system. …
