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.
Tech and Telecom Issue Areas
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Free the Economy podcast: Technology and society with Will Rinehart
In this week’s episode we cover nuclear radiation, luxury handbags, rent control in Maryland, net neutrality, and fighting malaria…
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Subsidy-free capitalism may require a constitutional amendment
Automobiles, electrification, ample consumer goods and mass marketing, a construction boom, and access to credit helped fuel the Roaring Twenties of a century ago.
Wall Street Journal
‘Net Neutrality’ Faces a Stiff Judicial Test
The Federal Communications Commission voted Thursday along partisan lines to reclassify broadband internet access service as a common carrier telecommunications service under Title II of…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNET A federal court ruling on copyright could undermine Google’s Book Search program.
Op-Eds
Making a Meth of the PATRIOT Act
If you thought al Qaeda or Iraqi insurgents were the major threats facing America, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) says you’re wrong. According to Dent,…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Three major oil companies prepare to open a major new natural gas pipeline…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. LEGAL McDonald’s french fries are attacked for containing traces of wheat and dairy products. CEI…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Paramount Pictures agrees to distribute a documentary on global warming starring former Vice President…
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The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update
Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Congress investigates the business operations of Google and other U.S. Internet companies in China.
Staff & Scholars
Jessica Melugin
Director of the Center for Technology & Innovation
- Antitrust
- Innovation
- Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms
Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
- Consumer Freedom
- Deregulation
Fred L. Smith, Jr.
Founder; Chairman Emeritus
- Automobiles and Roads
- Aviation
- Business and Government