AEI Internet, communications, and technology: Experts, highlights, and headlines

Internet, Communications, Technology, and Cyber policy scholars

Jeffrey Eisenach Visiting Scholar Research areas: Intellectual property, innovation, Internet, telecommunications, FCC

 

Claude Barfield Resident Scholar Research areas: International trade policy, Science and technology policy

 

Shane Tews Visiting Fellow Research areas: Internet governance, Cybersecurity

Richard Bennett Visiting Fellow Research areas: Mobile communications, WiFi, Net neutrality, Intellectual property rights, Ethernet

 

James K. Glassman Visiting Fellow Research areas: Communications policy, Internet

Headlines and Highlights

When community activists rule the web
Jeffrey Eisenach
The notion that the Federal Communications Commission would designate Internet access to be a Title II service – a “public utility” as Susan Crawford and other net neutrality advocates put it – was inconceivable as recently as a few months ago. Then, just after the election, something happened. 

Slow growth doesn’t have to be ‘the new normal’ 
James K. Glassman, USA Today
The “New Normal” is not inevitable. But unless we make changes soon, we could face a sluggish economy for decades.

Reactions to the new TPA bill
Claude Barfield, AEIdeas
Claude Barfield reacts to three of the most hotly debated sections of the new Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill.

Guiding the future of the Internet 
Shane Tews, The Hill
What legitimate authority would stand behind the technical decisions that guide the Internet if the US were to back down from the role?

Inside Obama’s net fix
Richard Bennett, The Washington Examiner
On Thursday, February 26, the FCC will formally pass its fourth set of regulations on broadband Internet services. The Internet is working well, however, so it’s not obvious that the FCC needs to help it.

 

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