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Politicians, pundits and populists across the political spectrum are blaming tech companies for undermining democracy, invading privacy, facilitating various other ills, from sex trafficking to the opioid crisis, and concentrating power over both markets and speech too narrowly. Taken together, these arguments would fundamentally transform the approach that has allowed the Internet to flourish. We proudly defend the freedoms that make technological progress both possible and beneficial
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TechFreedom Releases First Comprehensive Analysis of Federalism Obstacles to State Net Neutrality Regulations
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, TechFreedom published a comprehensive analysis of why state laws and executive orders attempting to replicate, or expand upon, the FCC’s 2015 net neutrality rules will likely fail in court. Earlier this year, the FCC’s Restoring Internet Freedom Order (RIFO) repealed those rules after concluding that broadband is a Title I information service requiring a regulatory light touch, rather than a Title II telecommunication service subject to common carrier ...
Graham Owens
October 31, 2018
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The Facebook Scandal: How Congress, FTC Should Respond
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, as the House and Senate hold hearings with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, TechFreedom issued a letter to Members of Congress sharing (1) our legal analysis of Facebook’s handling of user data and (2) policy guidance on how the Federal Trade Commission and Congress should respond to Facebook’s handling of Cambridge Analytica’s misuse of user data. “Facebook clearly dropped the ball here, and some governmental response is justified, but Congress must ...