Monthly Archives: September 2009

My lefty alter ego Tom Lee weighs in on the network neutrality debate. After an excessively generous hat tip toward my Cato paper, he focuses his criticism on Julian’s post. Tom is unimpressed by Julian’s concerns about the risks of … Continue reading →

I liked FCC chairman Julius Genachowski’s Monday speech at the Brookings Institution. I’ve argued before that network neutrality regulations are a bad idea, and the speech didn’t change my mind. I share the concerns of my colleagues Julian Sanchez and … Continue reading →

A year ago, I would have assumed that it was unnecessary to even address the possibility, but in the wake of the bank and auto bailouts, and the continued, precipitous decline of the newspaper industry, we’re starting to see semi-serious … Continue reading →

The chorus of voices against the Google Book Search deal keeps getting louder. Earlier this month, most of Google’s competitors and a raft of public interest organizations filed formal comments opposing the deal. Then a couple of weeks ago, the … Continue reading →

One of the most famous essays in economics is Ronald Coase’s “The Problem of Social Cost.” Its key argument, which was later dubbed the Coase Theorem by George Stigler, says that in a world with zero transaction costs, the initial … Continue reading →

Over at the Cato blog, I point out that the Washington Legal Foundation opposes the Google Book Search deal.

The Software Freedom Law Center is a public interest law firm that helps free software organizations with legal issues. They’ve got an excellent podcast that dives into detail about the legal issues faced by free software projects. I particularly enjoyed … Continue reading →

So there’s no confusion, I think it’s entirely reasonable for ACORN to look the other way if an adult prostitute comes looking for help obtaining housing. But assisting child prostitution is a different story. In latest ACORN video, from San … Continue reading →

Over at Cato’s blog, I follow up on my Monday post on the Google Book Search deal. If you’ll forgive me for quoting myself, my bottom-line point is that the class action mechanism is the wrong way to deal with … Continue reading →

Reader Rhayader points to the recent ACORN prostitution scandal as an example of investigative journalism being done by people who are not journalists in the traditional sense. The guy who made the video is James O’Keefe, an “activist filmmaker” who … Continue reading →