Whether it is lifting net neutrality regulations, allowing AI to reach its full potential to benefit mankind, educating policy makers about content moderation, clearing legacy regulations at the Federal Communications Commission, advocating for greater spectrum efficiency, or defending business practices that benefit consumers but are disliked by antitrust enforcers, CEI punches above its weight. Coalition activity, relationships with tech and telecom journalists, media appearances, policy events, Capitol Hill outreach, op-eds, and in-depth studies combine to make CEI influential in the tech and telecom policy area.
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A brief look at the Senate’s proposed AI regulations
As new artificial intelligence (AI) models release and their capabilities grow, fears around artificial intelligence have begun to crop up as people wonder what AI…
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Wall Street Journal
For the Sake of Free Speech, Keep Section 230
The only remedy Reps. McMorris Rodgers and Pallone Jr. offer for online harms is to turn the plaintiffs’ bar loose on tech companies, a curious…
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News Release
DOJ’s suit to breakup Live Nation-Ticketmaster will not lead to lower prices for entertainment
The Department of Justice filed a lawsuit today against Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, alleging anticompetitive behavior. The DOJ lawsuit seeks to…
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Op-Eds
The UN vs. Technology
With diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and AIDS ravaging the world's poor—and perhaps a flu pandemic in the offing—the United Nations'…
Letters
Letter on the Potentially Detrimental Effects of Net Neutrality Legislation
Full Document Available in PDF Dear Chairman Barton: As…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. SCIENCE The Food and Drug Administration plans to investigate the alleged link between cell phone use…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. HEALTH A New Jersey jury awards $4.5 million in a lawsuit against Merck & Co. involving…
Newsletter
The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
1. TECHNOLOGY House Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Joe Barton (R-TX) moves to allow phone companies to offer cable TV content to…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Columnist George Will on the contrast between scientific findings and media hype in…
Staff & Scholars
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Jessica Melugin
Director of the Center for Technology & Innovation
- Antitrust
- Innovation
- Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms
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Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
- Consumer Freedom
- Deregulation
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Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
- Automobiles and Roads
- Aviation
- Business and Government