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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DMA has its head in the Clouds
This week, the European Commission (EC) announced that Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure Cloud services are being preliminarily designated as “gatekeepers” under the Digital…
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The oasis in America’s affordability desert: Broadband gets faster while prices fall
Americans are understandably worried about affordability. Housing, health care, utilities, and groceries have all become more expensive in recent years, stretching household budgets…
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Time to end the SEC’s surveillance of everybody’s finances
Today is the deadline for filing regulatory comments on the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Consolidated Audit Trail (CAT) program. The CAT is a…
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Issues in the News 1. GLOBAL WARMING Cities and states adopt global warming policies without federal mandates. CEI Expert Available to…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Oil prices fall after a terrorist threat is stopped. CEI Expert Available to…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY BP management was warned of infrastructure decay several years before the company’s shut down…
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1. ENERGY Oil prices continue to fall after storm fears calm. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Warren Brookes Journalism Fellow…
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TRADE Australia helps lead attempts to revive the WTO’s Doha Round trade talks. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Scholar Fran Smith…
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1. ENERGY The Senate votes to move forward with oil and natural gas drilling legislation. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Microsoft faces a shareholder vote on its support for network neutrality legislation.
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Statement on Regulation of Social Networking Websites
Washington, D.C., July 26, 2006—The House is scheduled to vote today on the Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA), a bill that would restrict federal…
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Issues in the News 1. BUSINESS The House of Representatives votes to re-authorize the U.S. Export-Import Bank. CEI…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH The FDA approves a new sunscreen, long available in Europe and Canada, that…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL A federal court in Texas charges three British bankers yesterday with fraud related…
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Issues in the News 1. TRADE Heads of state issue a call to revive World Trade Organization negotiations, previously…
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America the Parent?
Why is government trying to be our parent again? Congress’s latest effort is the campaign to regulate video game content. Yet this is…
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Issues in the News TRANSPORTATION New orders for Boeing could take a toll on its European rival, Airbus. …
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL British Prime Minister Tony Blair prepares to extradite three bankers to the U.S. to…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL Lorillard Tobacco Co. signs an agreement with over 30 states to curtail Internet…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT The Discovery Channel prepares to air a new documentary on climate change science titled “…
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Issues in the News 1. LEGAL A court in Florida overturns a massive $145 billion verdict against several tobacco…
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1. HEALTH The West Nile virus makes a comeback in the Midwest. CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Risk & Environmental…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Blue Origin, the private space travel company started by Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos,…
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Issues in the News GLOBAL WARMING Environmental activists push global warming policies on the local level. CEI Expert Available…
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Issues in the News TRANSPORTATION A documentary about the development of the electric car hits movie theaters. CEI Expert…
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Issues in the News 1. INTERNET Amid furious lobbying, the Senate rejects net neutrality rules, which would have regulated…
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Issues in the News 1. FINANCE The Senate Finance Committee considers the nomination of Goldman Sachs chairman Henry Paulson…
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Statement on the “Audio Flag” Provisions of the “Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment”
Washington, D.C., June 22, 2006—Among the provisions in the "Communications, Consumers’ Choice, and Broadband Deployment Act" being marked up in the Senate Commerce Committee…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY The Senate takes up telecommunications reform, including a look at the…
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“Net Neutrality” Is Bad for the Internet
Full Document Available in PDF Big government, pro-regulation groups like MoveOn.org want the…
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Issues in the News 1. HEALTH KFC is sued over the oils it uses to make its…
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Letter to the FCC regarding “must carry” laws for cable operators
Full Document Available in PDF The undersigned organizations would…
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Data Mismanagement
Members of Congress, both Republican and Democrat, now say that Sarbanes-Oxley can be unduly burdensome on business. The law that, in…
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Congress to Vote on Internet Regulation
Washington, D.C., June 8, 2006—Congress is scheduled to vote on a plan for putting the federal government in charge of regulating Internet traffic,…
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Issues in the News 1. TELEVISION Congress considers vastly expanding FCC fines for broadcasting “indecent” programming. CEI Expert…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY Mobile and Internet telephone bills are expected to rise under a…
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<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = “urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office” /> Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Weather…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY The House of Representatives passes legislation that would open a portion of the…
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Homeland Bureaucracy?
Writer P.J. O'Rourke once quipped: “Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” It seems…
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Tracey Ross: TV’s Outspoken Individualist
How many Objectivists are there among television actresses? Well, there is one for sure: Tracey Ross of NBC’s popular soap opera “Passions.” As you…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Global warming alarmism debuts on the big screen courtesy of former Vice President…
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Issues in the News 1. ENVIRONMENT Former Vice President Al Gore prepares for the release of his documentary on global…
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Issues in the News 1. TECHNOLOGY A new proposal in Congress would require companies to disclose data…
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Issues in the News 1. ENERGY Companies pour billions of dollars into ethanol production to meet demand…
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Jessica Melugin
Director of the Center for Technology & Innovation
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- Innovation
- Media, Speech and Internet Freedoms
Clyde Wayne Crews
Fred L. Smith Fellow in Regulatory Studies
- Business and Government
- Consumer Freedom
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- Business and Government