by Innovation Economy Alliance | Jul 17, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation
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by Bartlett Cleland | May 10, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Regulation
As May graduations give way to family summer vacations millions will hit the road to crisscross our sprawling country. Down those same stretches of vacationer crowded highways are millions of utility poles which serve as home to electric, traditional phone and...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Mar 28, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Regulation
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by Bartlett Cleland | Mar 7, 2024 | Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Emerging Technologies, Regulation, Reports & Briefings, Wireless
For a long time, mass entertainment was various forms of media that the public consumed passively. But the rise of the internet did not just disintermediate the entertainment industries we knew—changing the ways movies, music, and news were packaged and delivered—it...
by Bartlett Cleland | Mar 7, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Regulation
Our federal deficit is exploding, and America’s financial house is in disarray. The country’s borrowing costs are at their highest level in over 20 years, and the national debt has surpassed $34 trillion for the first in history. In this environment, implementing...
by Bartlett Cleland | Feb 1, 2024 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, IEI post, Regulation, Taxes & Budget
Sports gaming is a big business, with the potential for over $100 billion in annual revenue worldwide. As this massive entertainment industry continues to grow, a battle is underway between top companies over what kinds of gaming products should be allowed. The...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 18, 2023 | Competitiveness, IEI post, Privacy, Regulation, Security, Telecommunications
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by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 18, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Artificial Intelligence, Competition & Free Market, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, IT & Data Innovation, Regulation
Click here to read the NO FAKES Act Coalition...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 7, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Emerging Technologies, Regulation
The Texas foster care system is infamous for failing its wards. The system is so flawed that in 2015 it was found in violation of the 14th Amendment, which guarantees the right for people to be free from an unreasonable risk of harm while in government custody. The...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jun 28, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation
A variety of legislative proposals across the country attempt to limit “children’s” or minors’ ability to be online, to see certain content or contribute content, or to set up user accounts. Most enforce this by targeting the technology with heavy fines if the...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jun 28, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation
In Star Trek, Captain Kirk communicates to his allies and enemies via a giant video wall on his space ship’s holodeck. Decades ago, those science fiction fantasy technologies seemed far fetched, but apps like Zoom and Apple’s Facetime have made real-time video chat a...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jun 14, 2023 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation
The refrain that very little gets done in Washington is now common, likely because it is so observably true. Issues of importance to the country seem to be perpetuated rather than solved, and often not even addressed. Instead, Congress distracts itself with reality...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 13, 2022 | Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Regulation
On December 6, 2022 the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) hosted an important discussion regarding the whether the center-right should embrace enhanced antitrust state power. IPI says of the panel, “Increasingly, voices on the center-right, including...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 8, 2022 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, IEI post, Privacy, Regulation, Security
IEI Signs Coalition Letter Urging Commonsense Changes to Kids Online Safety Act Read the Full Coalition Letter...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jul 13, 2021 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, IEI post, Regulation
On Memorial Day the Texas legislature sent Governor Abbott bills to expand broadband in rural and urban areas. The combined legislation would make sensible expansion of broadband faster and easier throughout Texas. So far Abbott has not signed them into law. House...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jul 13, 2021 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Broadband, Competitiveness, IEI post, Online Speech, Regulation, Wireless
While it took a couple months for clarity to replace idle speculation, the Biden administration’s tech and innovation public policy agenda is increasingly clear. The forecast? Government with little chance of free markets. At his recent address to Congress President...
by Bartlett Cleland | Jul 13, 2021 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation, Taxes & Budget, Wireless
In 1932, progressive U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis popularized a phrase regarding the importance of the U.S. system of federalism. As he wrote, “…a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Jul 13, 2021 | Broadband, Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation
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by Innovation Economy Alliance | Jul 13, 2021 | Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Regulation
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by Bartlett Cleland | Apr 27, 2021 | Broadband, Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Regulation
In discussion with IPI President Tom Giovanetti, Research Fellow Bartlett Cleland discusses the current state of broadband infrastructure and explains why enormous new federal spending on broadband is unnecessary and likely harmful. Click Here to Listen to the...
by Anna Parsons | Apr 22, 2021 | Competitiveness, IEI post, Regulation, Testimonies & Filings, Wireless
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by Innovation Economy Alliance | Mar 29, 2021 | Competitiveness, Ecosystem, Emerging Technologies, Online Speech, Regulation
Pacific Research Institute is proud to present a virtual debate on free speech and the role of social media in moderating online content. PRI brings together an unmatched team of experts including former Congressman Chris Cox, one of the original authors of Section...
by Bartlett Cleland | Mar 10, 2021 | Articles, Op-Eds & Blogs, Competitiveness, Emerging Technologies, IEI post, Regulation
Almost predictably, when Democrats take control of a legislature in a state, the governor’s mansion, a chamber of the U.S. Congress or the White House, the first volley of political rhetoric is that the party of big government is back. They will tax, grow regulation...
by Innovation Economy Alliance | Dec 23, 2020 | Competitiveness, IEI post, Online Speech, Regulation, Reports & Briefings
Massport v. Turo – Brief of amici...
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