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September 25, 2015

Amicus Brief, Tennessee v. FCC, 6th Circuit

"This case is not about broadband deployment or competition, nor local autonomy. It is about the FCC’s claim of sweeping power and its essentially unchecked discretion to govern the Internet..."

Telecommunications

August 7, 2015

ICLE and leading academics file amicus brief urging the court to overturn the FCC’s illegal net neutrality order

Geoffrey A. Manne

Yesterday, the International Center for Law & Economics, together with Professor Gus Hurwitz, Nebraska College of Law, and nine other scholars of law and economics, filed an amicus brief in the DC Circuit…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

July 31, 2015

How the “21st Century First Amendment” Violates the First Amendment

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry & Berin Szoka

Is net neutrality necessary to protect First Amendment values in the 21st Century? Or does the First Amendment actually prevent net neutrality regulation? How can both of these questions be considered simultaneously?

Telecommunications

June 18, 2015

Don’t wanna brag or nothin, but critics have been right about net neutrality so far: TWC complaint and the Consumer Watchdog petition show it

Ben Sperry

Remember when net neutrality wasn’t going to involve rate regulation and it was crazy to say that it would? Or that it wouldn’t lead to regulation of edge providers? Or…

Telecommunications

June 15, 2015

The TCPA is a Costly Technological Anachronism

Kristian Stout

The TCPA is an Antiquated Law The Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) is back in the news following a letter sent to PayPal from the Enforcement Bureau of the FCC.…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 8, 2015

FCC restrictions on joint sales agreements: Yet another FCC rule without basis in evidence or economics

Geoffrey A. Manne

Recently, Commissioner Pai praised the introduction of bipartisan legislation to protect joint sales agreements (“JSAs”) between local television stations. He explained that JSAs are contractual agreements that allow broadcasters to…

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

May 1, 2015

How to Break the Internet

Geoffrey A. Manne

"Net neutrality" sounds like a good idea. It isn't. As political slogans go, the phrase net neutrality has been enormously effective, riling up the chattering classes and forcing a sea change in the government's decades-old hands-off approach to regulating the Internet.

Telecommunications

April 20, 2015

Amicus Brief, Howard Stirk Holdings, LLC. et al. v. FCC, D.C. Circuit

Geoffrey A. Manne & Ben Sperry

"'Capricious' is defined as 'given to sudden and unaccountable changes of mood or behavior.' That is just the word to describe the FCC’s decision in its 2014 Order to reverse a quarter century of agency practice by a vote of 3-to-2..."

Antitrust & Consumer Protection

April 9, 2015

Don’t tread on my Internet

Geoffrey A. Manne

Ben Sperry and I have a long piece on net neutrality in the latest issue of Reason Magazine entitled, “How to Break the Internet.” It’s part of a special collection of…

Telecommunications

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