The Open Market Blog

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/15/2007

Gotta love the Net Neutrality ScareTicker: “It has been… 1548 days 12 hours 40 minutes … without a “net neutrality”…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/14/2007

The Progress and Freedom Foundation’s Scott Wallsten notes the urgency of franchise reform as the path to greater broadband access and availability. The FCC’s recent…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 02/07/2007

While the big telecom firms and some free speech and civil liberties groups may clash over issues like net neutrality, they agree over the fact…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 01/19/2007

Jack Shafer ponders the case for abolishing FCC in Slate’s blog.  He wonders what things would be like if the philosophy of FCC’s control…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 12/07/2006

Several public policy groups are beginning to set up limited operations within the virtual realm called Second Life; lectures, publications, that sort of thing.

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/28/2006

The European Union claims that unsolicited email –spam– accounts for between 50 and 80 percent of all Internet traffic. But that can’t be true,…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 11/17/2006

The Antitrust Modernization Commission will report recommendations for streamlining the nation’s antitrust laws sometime in April 2007; while the ponderous commission has been around…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 09/27/2006

As often happens to successful ventures, Starbucks now faces critics who challenge the company’s leasing contracts, which specify competitors may not occupy the…

• By: Clyde Wayne Crews
• 07/25/2006

Contrary to the network neutrality agenda presented in this Newsforge article by some anonymous individual going by the name of James Glass,…