What's on the agenda for policymakers.
Agenda
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Judge Richard Leon's decision in the Justice Department's challenge to the AT&T/Time Warner decision is one of the most anticipated antitrust decisions in recent years. The decision is likely to influence not only how content providers, distributors, and platforms operate and interact with one another, but the entire landscape of vertical mergers more generally. |
The Trump appointee making Silicon Valley sweat
Makan Delrahim, who heads the Justice Department’s antitrust division, has spent months laying out a case for greater scrutiny of the country’s powerful technology industry, making the argument in speeches from Chicago to Rome. And his rhetoric — he told an audience at the University of Chicago in April that "enforcers must take vigorous action" if digital platforms harm competition — is being closely watched in the tech industry amid fears that Washington's souring view on Silicon Valley could eventually result in a crackdown.
An all-day conference hosted by the Open Markets Institute and the Tow Center at the Columbia University School of Journalism. Our speakers will explore how the power and business models of large online and telecom intermediaries affect the ability of reporters and editors to gather and distribute news in the 21st century.
The guiding question for the day will be: How do we ensure that America’s journalists are fully independent, and that they are robustly supported to report the news, both nationally and locally, that is so vital to sustaining our democracy?
Witnesses
Dr. Howard Beales
Professor of Strategic Management and Public Policy, George Washington University
Ms. Rachel Glasser
Global Chief Privacy Officer, Wunderman
Mr. Mike Zaneis
President and CEO, Trustworthy Accountability Group
On December 14, 2017, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to repeal “net neutrality,” a set of Obama-era regulations that had only been enacted in 2015.
Net neutrality is officially dead. Here’s how you’ll notice it’s gone.
The internet is already massively concentrated, with just a few platforms commanding the majority of people’s time online. Once those entrenched powers can start to set the price for priority service, they stand to become even more powerful. Those smaller websites that are taking longer to load may slowly start to disappear too, and the great promise of the internet—that there’s no telling what someone might create next—may become an even more distant dream. So be on the lookout over the next few weeks for notices from your internet service provider with changes to your terms of service.
Net Neutrality Activists Get It in Gear
Network neutrality activist groups were lining up their protest efforts June 11 as the Federal Communications Commission's rules against online blocking, throttling and paid prioritization sunset in favor of a deregulatory regime centered on Federal Trade Commission oversight/enforcement.
As one of the foremost academic institutions on rural research, the University of North Dakota brings a number of unique social and health research opportunities to the academic community that have global impacts. The Midwest Big Data Hub (MBDH) incubates collaborative partnerships among industry, academic, government, and non-governmental organizations to drive economic development and capacity-building for data practices, policies, standards, and applications. The Hub’s Smart, Connected and Resilient Communities efforts aim at developing shared knowledge and practices around data and data
The FCC's Net Neutrality Rules Are Dead, but the Fight Isn't
Although net neutrality protections end June 11, don't expect to see huge changes right away.
Goodbye to net neutrality. Hello to an even-bigger AT&T?
Two pivotal developments this week could dramatically expand the power and footprint of major telecom companies, altering how Americans access everything from political news to “Game of Thrones” on the Internet.