Technology
Net Neutrality vs. Internet Freedom
Alex Epstein | 23 September 2009
The Internet is not a collectivist commune; it is a free, voluntary, and private association of individuals and corporations harmoniously pursuing their individual goals.
The Internet is not a collectivist commune; it is a free, voluntary, and private association of individuals and corporations harmoniously pursuing their individual goals.
Net Neutrality, the FCC and Comcast
Richard Winkler | 3 August 2008Would the Seattle Times acquiesce to a "printing press-neutrality" law that dictated how it should run its presses?
"Net Neutrality": Destroyer of Internet Freedom
Alex Epstein | 24 February 2008"Net neutrality" is antithetical to Internet freedom.
"Muni Wi-Fi" and Other Broadband Blunders in Oregon
Vince Vasquez | 16 November 2007Many local governments have learned their lesson after fiddling with fiber optics, but will sadly endure the same woes with Wi-Fi technology. Because revenues have often not come in at the high rates Muni Wi-Fi operators expected years ago, they now seek virtual exclusive use of local unlicensed radio spectrum through special government agreements, thwarting a competitive marketplace by degrading the quality of rival services. Furthermore, wireless network providers habitually require local governments to agree to become their indefinite customers of "anchor tenant" services, committing millions of future taxpayer dollars to use what many industry experts now consider to be an obsolete technology.
"Open Access" and the Tyranny of the FCC
Alex Epstein | 22 October 2007If the government recognized airwaves as private property, the wireless industry and broadcast media would be transformed.
Hands Off My Net
Don Luskin | 23 July 2006Net neutrality threatens to kill the innovation that has marked the emergence of the Internet.
The United Nation's First Salvo In Its Bid To Take Over and Censor The Internet
Tom DeWeese | 28 February 2006What totalitarian can resist a bid to control the Internet?
Free Broadband From Socialism
Joseph Bast | 4 March 2005Municipalities do not have a right to experiment with socialism. Municipalization is their attempt to turn back the clock and "snuff out" private competitors.
Digital Disgust: In Praise of Simplicity
Thomas Sowell | 14 July 2004Where is our new George Eastman today?
Laissez-Faire VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol)
James Glassman | 7 February 2004Experts see VoIP )Voice over Internet Protocol) as the "killer app," the powerful application that will inspire Americans to subscribe to broadband.
Dollars and Crosses
- Jane Orient on Quitting Medicare
- Ayn Rand’s Essay “To Whom It May Concern” Now Online
- Uses and Sources of Gold
- New Book: How to be Profitable and Moral: A Rational Egoist Approach to Business
- Democracy and Self Determination of Peoples: Euphenisms for Mob Rule in the Middle East
- Private Schools for the Poor
- Holleran on Anti-Hero Worship
- Salsman on the Anti-Capitalist Conservatives
- New Website: Checking Premises
- Job Creators: Who Do those Immigrants Think They Are?


