ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz joined Steptoe & Johnson’s The Cyberlaw Podcast to discuss Elon Musk’s bid to buy Twitter and how it has revealed hypocrisies on both the right and left.

https://www.steptoe.com/podcasts/TheCyberlawPodcast-403.mp3

ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz joined the Cardinal Institute’s podcast Forgotten America to discuss the logistical, political, and philosophical questions surrounding broadband in rural America. The full episode can be found here.

ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz joined Steptoe & Johnson’s The Cyberlaw Podcast to discuss boycotts of Russia by the largest U.S. tech firms and the role Big Tech played in President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. The full episode is embedded below.

https://www.steptoe.com/podcasts/TheCyberlawPodcast-397.mp3

ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz joined Steptoe & Johnson’s The Cyberlaw Podcast to discuss the American Innovation and Choice Online Act, just voted out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The full episode is embedded below.

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has released a list of 50 airports that it contends will need “buffer zones” for 5G cellular spectrum, the latest in a months-long and escalating public fight between the agency and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Rather than a mere regulatory turf battle, the differences this internecine spectacle illustrates in how these two agencies think about risk and understand the purposes of regulation reflect basic divisions that run throughout our politics.

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ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz appeared on RFD-TV to discuss the lack of high speed internet access in some rural areas. The full clip is embedded below. 

ICLE Director of Law & Economics Programs Gus Hurwitz joined Steptoe & Johnson’s The Cyberlaw Podcast to discuss  Special Assistant to the President for Technology and Competition Policy Tim Wu and the role he may have played in helping President Joe Biden draft his recent executive order on competition. The full episode is embedded below.

https://www.steptoe.com/podcasts/TheCyberlawPodcast-370.mp3

Policy is not settled quickly in communications law. The 1996 Telecommunications Act required incumbent telecommunications carriers to open their networks to competitors on regulated terms. It took more than a decade, two trips to the Supreme Court, and several trips to the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to ascertain the meaning of this statutory requirement. The story is similar to the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) efforts since 1998 to fit consumer internet service into the same Telecommunications Act’s statutory framework, resulting in repeated trips to the Courts of Appeals and the Supreme Court.

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With a compromise infrastructure bill now on the table in the Senate, it is more than just merely possible that Congress will invest $65 billion in broadband over the next eight years. Despite the size of this potential investment, on an annualized basis it is smaller than the existing Federal Communications Commission Universal Service program. The pending infrastructure bill would invest $8.125 billion per year in an effort to close the digital divide, while the FCC’s Universal Service program has spent just under $8.3 billion per year for each of the past three years.

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