Archive: News – Digital Economy
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Larry Downes: “Is Disney Moving Too Fast On Fox Takeover? Don’t Ask Antitrust Regulators” (Forbes)
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 The Department of Justice appears to have changed its mind again about the risks of media mergers. After being brutally trounced in an ill-conceived lawsuit to block the
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Larry Downes comments on Disney-Fox merger
How the Disney-Fox Deal got DOJ's Greenlight Quicker Than Expected, Variety June 27, 2018 Larry Downes, senior industry and innovation fellow at the Georgetown Center for Business and Publ
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Larry Downes: “The AT&T Ruling Shows That U.S. Regulators Don’t Understand Media’s Present — or Future” (Harvard Business Review)
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 This week’s decision by U.S. District Judge Richard Leon to allow AT&T and Time Warner to complete their merger will bring to a close a deal that has been pending for
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Larry Downes: “5G: What is it good for?” (Washington Post)
5G, or 5th generation mobile, is the next big leap in wireless communications. You’ve probably heard about it in commercials or seen it in headlines. But much of the discussion about the new tech
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Larry Downes and other panelists quoted in TR Daily article covering CBPP event on May 24th
Maker:L,Date:2017-9-17,Ver:5,Lens:Kan03,Act:Kan02,E-Y The TR Daily covered the CBPP's May 24, 2018 discussion of 5G in "U.S. at Risk of Losing Mid-Band 5G Race, Panelists Says" by Lynn Stanton:
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Larry Downes: “With More Net Neutrality Stunts, Broadband Becomes A Political Football” (Forbes)
Do the very vocal supporters of Net Neutrality actually want Net Neutrality? Apparently not. Rather than negotiate a straightforward legislative solution and get it enacted as a matter of federal
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Anna-Maria Kovacs: “Why Shelter the Internet Edge Providers?” (CED Magazine)
The morning of May 16, 2018, in advance of the Senate vote on the resolution under the Congressional Review Act to overturn the FCC’s 2017 Restoring Internet Freedom order, CED Magazine published
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Larry Downes: “Should the tech giants be more heavily regulated?” (The Economist)
The Economist hosted a debate on the Open Future: Regulating Tech Titans. Larry Downes, CBPP Senior Industry and Innovation Fellow and Project Director for the The Evolution of Regulation and Inn
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Larry Downes: “Scams, Lies, And Revenge Porn: In The Facebook Fallout, Will The U.S. Get New Privacy Laws?” (Forbes – Washington Bytes)
On May 25, 2018, the European Union will enact its General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”), in which consumers will “gain the right to access data companies store about them, the right to co
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Larry Downes interviewed about disruptive innovation on Tech Policy Podcast
Larry Downes joined TechFreedom's Tech Policy Podcast to discuss disruptive innovation: The growing pace of technological innovation means both regulators and established industries are finding i
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