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Focus Area: regulation

February 3, 2021

Chairman Pai Symposium: Wrap-Up and Thoughts for the Future FCC

Kristian Stout
The next chair has an awfully big pair of shoes (or one oversized coffee mug) to fill. Chairman Pai established an important legacy of transparency and process improvement, as well as commitment to careful, economic analysis in the business of the agency.
Telecommunications
January 26, 2021

Ajit Pai Brought the FCC’s Media Ownership Rules into the Modern Age

Geoffrey A. Manne
Pai’s tenure at the FCC was marked by an abiding appreciation for the importance of competition, both as a guiding principle for new regulations and as a touchstone to determine when to challenge existing ones. Perhaps his greatest contribution to bringing competition to the forefront of the FCC’s mandate came in his work on media modernization.
Telecommunications
January 21, 2021

A Reflection on Commissioner Pai, Chairman Pai, and Public Service

Joshua Wright
Ajit Pai has been, in my view, the most successful, impactful minority commissioner in the history of the modern regulatory state. And it is that success that has led him to become the most successful and impactful chairman, too.
Telecommunications
January 19, 2021

Pai’s Legacy of Progress in Closing the Rural Digital Divide

Gus Hurwitz
The technical and business challenges of connecting rural America are different. Rural America needs different things out of its infrastructure than urban America. And the attitudes of both users and those providing service are different here than they are in urban America. Aji Pai gets this.
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
January 14, 2021

Introductory Post: Retrospective on Ajit Pai’s Tenure as FCC Chairman

Kristian Stout
Ajit Pai will step down from his position as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) effective Jan. 20. Beginning Jan. 15, Truth on the Market will host a symposium exploring Pai’s tenure, with contributions from a range of scholars and practitioners.
Telecommunications
January 4, 2021

COVID-19 Vaccines Show the Patent System Works

Geoffrey A. Manne & Kristian Stout
ICLE President Geoffrey Manne and Director of Innovation Policy Kristian Stout's latest post on Truth on the Market about how the successful COVID-19 vaccine trials demonstrate the value of the patent system.
Intellectual Property
December 16, 2020

Building the Digital Future: Can the EU Foster a Dynamic and Crime-Free Internet?

Geoffrey A. Manne & Dirk Auer
The European Commission has unveiled draft legislation that would overhaul the rules governing the online lives of its citizens. The draft rules are something of a mixed bag.
Innovation & The New Economy
November 17, 2020

The Dishonesty of Conservative Attacks on Section 230

Ben Sperry
President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for repeal of Section 230. But while Trump and fellow conservatives decry Big Tech companies for their alleged anti-conservative bias, including at yet more recent hearings, their…
Innovation & The New Economy
October 27, 2020

Buck’s 'Third Way': A Different Road to the Same Destination

Samuel Bowman
Congressman Buck’s “Third Way” report offers a compromise between the House Judiciary Committee’s majority report, which proposes sweeping new regulation of tech companies, and the status quo, which Buck argues is unfair and…
Antitrust & Consumer Protection
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