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CBS Seattle

Will Apple’s Staggering Growth One Day Be Its Undoing?

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/31/2012

From Candice Lee Hefland's article for CBS Seattle: “Saturation is not a huge concern. If anything, Apple devices will continue to proliferate a…

Tech and Telecom

ARS Technica

Witnesses Warn Verizon-Comcast Deal Will Damage Competition

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/21/2012

From Timothy B. Lee's article on ArsTechnica: We asked Ryan Radia, an analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, to comment on the hearing.

Tech and Telecom

Orange County Register

EDITORIAL: Don’t Throw the E-Book at Apple

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/15/2012

From The Orange County Register's editorial: So far, the ebook market actually is dominated by Amazon.com's Kindle device, Ryan Radia told us; he's…

Antitrust

Comment

Reply Comments to FCC Re: Verizon Wireless Application to Acquire Spectrum Licenses

  • By: Joseph Calascione, Ryan Radia
  • 03/05/2012

Full Document Available in PDF Executive Summary: The Federal Communications Commission should approve the applications of Verizon Wireless to acquire spectrum licenses…

Law and Litigation

Ecomerce Times

Google Unfazed by AGs’ Furrowed Brows

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 02/27/2012

From Erika Morphy's article on E-Commerce Times and TechNewsWorld: From Google's perspective, it has no reason to make changes based on the AGs'…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

The STOCK Act: A Response to Professor Bainbridge

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 02/19/2012

Professor Stephen Bainbridge recently responded to a National Review Online article by my colleagues John Berlau and David Bier in which they argue…

Law and Litigation

Tech News World

Twitter CEO’s Tweet-Blocking Defense: It’s Just Business

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 02/01/2012

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Tech News World

Ryan Radia: SOPA could change the way the internet works

  • 01/17/2012

SOPA could change the way the internet works. Now, some of the biggest websites in the world like Google and Wikipedia are going dark in…

Consumer Freedom

Blog

Feds Should Stay Out of Google/Twitter Social Search Spat

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 01/13/2012

By Berin Szoka, Geoffrey Manne, and Ryan Radia As has become customary with just about every new product announcement by Google these days, the company’s…

Law and Litigation

ARS Technica

AT&T Admits Defeat on T-Mobile Takeover, Will Pay $4 Billion Breakup Fee

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/20/2011

Tech and Telecom

Letters

Coalition Letter Urges House Judiciary Committee to Consider Implications of SOPA

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/15/2011

Full Document Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute, TechFreedom, Americans…

Free Speech

Yahoo! News

Cellphone Ban Critic: NTSB Has ‘No Business Telling Me How to Drive My Car’

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/14/2011

Automobiles and Roads

CNET

New Version of SOPA Copyright Bill, Old Complaints

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/12/2011

Intellectual Property

CNET

SOPA Foes Marshal Opposition Before House Panel Vote

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/12/2011

Intellectual Property

CNET

SOPA’s Most Aggressive Defender: U.S. Chamber of Commerce

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/30/2011

Intellectual Property

Tech News World

Europe Weary of Apple, Samsung Patent War

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/28/2011

Antitrust

Ecomerce Times

Gates Tells Jury Microsoft’s No Bully

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/22/2011

Antitrust

Yahoo! News

FCC Net Neutrality Rules Take Effect, Experts Doubt Longevity

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/21/2011

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

Tech Liberation

Why SOPA Threatens the DMCA Safe Harbor

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/18/2011

The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a controversial bill before the House of Representatives aimed at combating “rogue websites,” isn’t just about criminal, foreign-based…

Free Speech

E Week

Security Experts Blast House Anti-Piracy Bill’s DNS Filtering Provisions

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/17/2011

Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms

CNET

SOPA Bill Won’t Make U.S. a ‘Repressive Regime,’ Democrat Says

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/16/2011

Intellectual Property

Reason

New Anti-Piracy Legislation Would Break the Internet Without Stopping Piracy

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/08/2011

Intellectual Property

Daily Caller

Government Bureaucrats Can’t Prevent Data Breaches

  • By: Luke Pelican, Ryan Radia
  • 11/07/2011

Sony’s popular PlayStation Network suffered a massive data breach earlier this year, exposing 100 million users’ credit card numbers, home addresses and more. Numerous other…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Cato At Liberty

Three Libertarians Raise Concerns about the Stop Online Piracy Act

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/07/2011

Privacy and Cybersecurity

ARS Technica

The Stop Online Piracy Act: Big Content’s Full-On Assault Against the Safe Harbor

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/07/2011

Intellectual Property

ACLU

I Went to Washington and Democracy Broke Out

  • By: Alex Nowrasteh, Ryan Radia
  • 10/25/2011

Labor and Employment

Read Write

New Law Would Require Warrants for GPS Surveillance

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 10/25/2011

Privacy and Cybersecurity

The Hill

This Week in Tech

  • By: Alex Nowrasteh, Ryan Radia
  • 10/24/2011

Labor and Employment

SCPR

E-Verify Briefing Turns Into Shouting Match

  • By: Alex Nowrasteh, Ryan Radia
  • 10/24/2011

Labor and Employment

Legal Brief

Brief of Amici Curiae Cato Institute, Reason Foundation, and Competitive Enterprise Institute in Support Of Petitioners in Mayo v. Prometheus Labs

  • By: Gregory Conko, Ryan Radia
  • 09/15/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Summary of Argument Prometheus’s patents are…

Intellectual Property

Orange County Register

Cellphone Merger a Good Call

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 09/02/2011

Antitrust

Ecomerce Times

AT&T May Have to Break Out Its Dancing Shoes

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 09/02/2011

Antitrust

Yahoo! News

Challenge To T-Mobile Deal Brings Out Fans and Critics

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 09/02/2011

Antitrust

Los Angeles Times

U.S. Fears Lost Jobs If AT&T Merger is Approved

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 09/01/2011

Antitrust

RBR

AT&T Vows to Pursue T-Mobile Merger Despite DOJ block

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 09/01/2011

Antitrust

E Week

U.S. Suit to Block ATandT, T-Mobile Deal Draws Sharp Interest Group Reaction

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 09/01/2011

Antitrust

E Week

MrFuddlesticks, the Renton Police Department and Online Civil Liberties

  • By: Nicole Ciandella, Ryan Radia
  • 08/22/2011

In the last two decades, the Internet has revolutionized the way people communicate and socialize. Unfortunately, our legal system has yet to adapt to the…

Free Speech

Human Events

Big Brother Goes Green

  • By: Marc Scribner, Ryan Radia
  • 08/18/2011

Automobiles and Roads

Pittsburgh Live

Request for Social Media Curbs in Britain Spark Debate

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 08/13/2011

Free Speech

Orange County Register

E-Verify is an Abysmal Failure

  • By: Alex Nowrasteh, Ryan Radia
  • 08/05/2011

  The Costa Mesa City Council recently asked city CEO Tom Hatch to investigate mandating electronic employment verification (E-Verify) for all private workers in the…

Letters

Coalition Letter on Data Retention Bill

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 07/27/2011

Full Document Available in PDF Dear Chairman Smith and Ranking Member Conyers: As public interest groups dedicated to free enterprise and constitutionally…

Cop Block

Alyona Show: How to Cop Proof Your Cell Phone

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 07/26/2011

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Mercury News

Why Google probe should worry consumers

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 06/29/2011

  Is Google too big? Some government officials in Washington, D.C., certainly seem to think so. Last week, the Federal Trade Commission launched a formal…

Antitrust

Ecomerce Times

1plusV Lobs Another Antitrust Grenade at Google

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 06/29/2011

Antitrust

PC Magazine

Google Confirms FTC Investigation; Will States Launch Inquiries, Too?

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 06/24/2011

Antitrust

Tech News World

FCC Aims to Get Carriers’ Sticky Fingers Out of Customers’ Pockets

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 06/23/2011

Regulatory Reform

CDT

A Sledgehammer, a Silver Bullet, or Something in Between? Experts Debate ‘Do Not Track’

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 06/16/2011

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Comment

CEI Submits Comments on the AT&T — T-Mobile Merger Before the Federal Communications Commission

  • By: Luke Pelican, Ryan Radia
  • 06/13/2011

Full Docmument Available in PDF The Competitive Enterprise Institute submits this reply comment regarding the…

Antitrust

Investor's Business Daily

Reform Sarbox To Galvanize High-Tech IPOs

  • By: Jacqueline Otto, Ryan Radia
  • 05/25/2011

  Silicon Valley is teeming with budding startups whose user bases and valuations are skyrocketing. As these companies seek breathing room to grow, they will…

Banking and Finance

Blog

PROTECT IP Act: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 05/13/2011

Combating "rogue websites" is a top priority for many in Congress this year. Lawmakers have held several hearings over the past few months…

Intellectual Property

Seattle PI

Telecom deal not clear as a bell

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 05/09/2011

Tech and Telecom

Ecomerce Times

Microsoft Antitrust Oversight Ends With a Whimper

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/29/2011

Antitrust

Blog

Laura Ingraham on Protecting Email from Unwarranted Governmental Access

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/22/2011

On Wednesday, I appeared on the Laura Ingraham Show to discuss the Obama administration's stance on reforming the 1986 law that governs law enforcement access…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Statesman

Texas Lawmakers Should Reject a Tax on Satellite TV

  • By: Jacqueline Otto, Ryan Radia
  • 04/22/2011

  No one likes new taxes especially ones that don't make sense. Unfortunately, politicians never seem to learn this simple lesson. Lawmakers in Austin are…

Regulatory Reform

Blog

YouTube Introduces “Copyright School” to Educate Infringing Users

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/17/2011

In the ongoing copyright debates, areas of common ground are seemingly few and far between. It's easy to forget that not all approaches to…

Intellectual Property

Heartland

FCC Issues CA Man $7,000 Forfeiture Order

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/14/2011

Tech and Telecom

CNET

Privacy dispute tests Obama’s earlier promises

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/08/2011

Law and Litigation

Daily Caller

House moves against net neutrality but obstacles remain

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 04/07/2011

Tech and Telecom

Blog

Senators Seek to Censor Mobile App Stores, Disregarding Public Safety and the Constitution

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/25/2011

In the latest example of big government run amok, several politicians think they ought to be in charge of which applications you should be able…

Consumer Freedom

Ecomerce Times

House Subcommittee Vote Unlikely to Impede Net Neutrality Rules

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 03/10/2011

Tech and Telecom

Ecomerce Times

French Firm Slings Another Stone at Google in EC Antitrust Spat

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 02/23/2011

Tech and Telecom

Ecomerce Times

Tough Terms May Land Apple’s Subscription Service in Hot Water

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 02/18/2011

Tech and Telecom

Ecomerce Times

Comcast OK With Feds’ Conditions for NBC Merger

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 01/19/2011

Tech and Telecom

Reason

Being Smart With Your Smartphone, Police Search Edition

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 01/19/2011

Free Speech

Study

Protect Free Speech by Rejecting Content Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 01/18/2011

Liberate to Stimulate Index In recent years, the First Amendment’s protections have been increasingly extended to commercial speech, such as product advertisements…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Study

Regulate Government Data Collection While Avoiding Perscriptive Privacy Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 01/18/2011

Regulatory Reform

Study

Resist Anti Consumer Antitrust Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 01/18/2011

Regulatory Reform

Study

Avoid Hindering the Internet’s Evolution through Net Neutrality Regulation

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 01/18/2011

Liberate to Stimulate Index In 2010, Congress failed to enact legislation authorizing the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to enforce network neutrality rules.

Regulatory Reform

Slashdot

Encrypt Your Smartphone – Or Else

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 01/18/2011

Tech and Telecom

Blog

Smartphone Searches, Encryption, and the Constitution

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 01/17/2011

The smartphone is arguably one of the most empowering and revolutionary technologies of the modern era. By putting the processing power of a personal…

Law and Litigation

ARS Technica

Why You Should Always Encrypt Your Smartphone

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 01/17/2011

Last week, California's Supreme Court reached a controversial 5-2 decision in People v. Diaz (PDF), holding that police officers may lawfully search mobile phones found on…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

PC World

What’s Next for the FCC and Net Neutrality?

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/27/2010

Tech and Telecom

Boston.com

FCC passes ‘net neutrality’ Internet regulations

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/21/2010

Tech and Telecom

Before It's News

FCC Threatens to Impose Destructive Rules on Internet

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 12/20/2010

Regulatory Reform

Blog

Does Wikileaks Have a First Amendment Case Against Joe Lieberman?

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/08/2010

Amazon made headlines last week when it abruptly cut off service to Wikileaks, allegedly on the grounds that the site had violated Amazon's…

Law and Litigation

Tech Liberation

Does Wikileaks Have a First Amendment Case Against Joe Lieberman?

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/07/2010

Amazon made headlines last week when it abruptly cut off service to Wikileaks, allegedly on the grounds that the site had violated Amazon’s terms of acceptable…

Free Speech

Reason

The Other Shoe Is Dropping

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/07/2010

Free Speech

Local Tech Wire

Opinion: ‘Net neutrality’ will hurt consumers, limit investment

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 12/02/2010

Tech and Telecom

IT Pro Portal

EU Google antitrust probe will hurt consumers

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 12/02/2010

IT Pro Portal reports on the Google antitrust lawsuit and references comments by Wayne Crews and Ryan Radia on the case. However, competition…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

European Commission Should Leave Internet Search Alone

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/01/2010

Today, the European Commission opened a formal antitrust investigation into Google to probe allegations that the firm rigged its search engine to discriminate against…

Regulatory Reform

Ecomerce Times

Google Denies Rankings Hanky-Panky as EU Pursues Probe

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 12/01/2010

Tech and Telecom

Washington Post

Feds pledge some action on privacy, less on net neutrality

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 12/01/2010

The Washington Post cite CEI's Wayne Crews and Ryan Radia's comments on net neutrality.  Other observers like the FCC's new deal even less.

Tech and Telecom

Huffington Post

Yes, Mr. FCC Chairman, There Is a Santa Claus

  • By: Clyde Wayne Crews, Ryan Radia
  • 12/01/2010

The Huffington Post cites Wayne Crews's comments on the FCC's net neutrality rule.  The would-be chairmen of the House Energy and Commerce Committee are…

Tech and Telecom

Blog

Six Ways Congress Can Fix COICA Copyright Bill

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/22/2010

Over at the Technology Liberation Front, I discuss the “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act” (COICA), which the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously…

Intellectual Property

Tech Liberation

Five Ways Congress Can Fix COICA Copyright Bill

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/19/2010

On November 18, the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the “Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act” (COICA). The bill would enable the U.S. Attorney General…

Tech and Telecom

AOL News

Court Should Kill California’s Video Game Law

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 11/18/2010

Free expression in the digital age faces a major test before the U.S. Supreme Court. Earlier this month, the court heard oral arguments debating the…

Business and Government

Spectator

Go Meat!

  • By: Daniel Compton, Ivan Osorio, Michelle Minton, Ryan Radia
  • 10/22/2010

Climate

Mac World

Mobile Phone Bill Shock: FCC, Carriers Face Off

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 10/19/2010

Tech and Telecom

CIO

Mobile phone bill shock: FCC, carriers face off

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 10/18/2010

Business and Government

PC World

Mobile Phone Bill Shock: FCC, Carriers Face Off

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 10/18/2010

Business and Government

Blog

Bill Shock Shouldn’t Be A Federal Issue

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 10/15/2010

The FCC proposed new rules today aimed at combating wireless “bill shock,” a term that describes mobile subscribers getting hit with overage charges they…

Tech and Telecom

Modern Healthcare

Enterprise group to FCC: No new Net neutrality rules

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 10/13/2010

Tech and Telecom

Comment

CEI Submits Comments to FCC on Mobile Wireless Platforms and Specialized Services

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 10/12/2010

CEI submitted comments to the FCC on October 12th on how net neutrality regulations will affect mobile innovation and consumer choice of specialized services.

Blog

Is the Internet’s Future in Jeopardy?

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 10/06/2010

Last week, I had the pleasure of discussing net neutrality with James Boyle, a Duke Law Professor and the co-founder of the…

Tech and Telecom

Comment

Joint-Statement Submitted to House and Senate Committees on Reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 09/22/2010

The House and Senate Committees on the Judiciary held separate hearings on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) on September 22, 2010, and September 23,…

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Adage

Look to the Marketplace for Stronger Privacy Protection

  • By: Carolyn Homer, Ryan Radia
  • 09/20/2010

  A series of recent high-profile privacy gaffes involving internet firms such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook has spurred a public outcry for stronger privacy…

Business and Government

News Release

House Antitrust Hearing Misses the Real Consumer Threat

  • Ryan Radia
  • 09/16/2010

Washington, D.C., September 16, 2010 – This morning, the U.S. House subcommittee held a hearing to examine “competition in the evolving digital marketplace.” While…

Real Clear Markets

Clearing the Way for High-Tech Jobs

  • By: Ryan Radia, Ryan Young
  • 09/15/2010

  The U.S. economy may be growing again, albeit slowly. But employment rolls continue to languish. This frustrating state of affairs has left many Americans…

Business and Government

PC World

The Pros and Cons of Craigslist’s Shutdown of the Adult Services Section

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 09/07/2010

Privacy and Cybersecurity

Heartland

Broadcast Spectrum Bill Raises Property Rights Concerns

  • By: Ryan Radia
  • 08/28/2010

Business and Government

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