Editorials: Telecom

Reject Longmont Public Wi-Fi Measure

Bruce Edward Walker
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October 07, 2011
“When will they ever learn?” is a plaintive war protest-song refrain from back in the day, but perhaps it requires a contemporary update in light of Longmont’s ballot initiative to resurrect a muni

Nix the Amazon Tax

Bruce Edward Walker
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September 23, 2011
Declaring it "unfair" that out-of-state online retailers don't collect sales tax from every customer in each state where they conduct business, a bipartisan coalition of Michigan Representatives wa

Customers, Not Government, Determine Competitiveness

Bruce Edward Walker
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September 13, 2011
The White House this week commanded the Department of Justice to scuttle a deal that would’ve combined two wireless carriers—fourth-place T-Mobile and second-place AT&T—and catapulted the merge

The Government Should Let the AT&T Merger Go Forward

Bruce Edward Walker
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September 07, 2011
Last week, the White House commanded the Department of Justice to scuttle a deal that would’ve combined two wireless carriers — fourth-place T-Mobile and second-place AT&T — and catapulted the

Smile, You're on Motown Surveillance Cam

Bruce Edward Walker
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August 19, 2011
"Detroit Police hope to bolster safety in the central business district by connecting a network of 350 security cameras to a central viewing post to track activity on the streets, search out wa

Net Neutrality Violates Property Rights Principles

Bruce Edward Walker
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July 29, 2011
Network neutrality, a euphemistically labeled and insidious concept, is perhaps the biggest current threat to the Internet, chiefly because it threatens property rights by supplying the wrong answe

Obama Stands Idly by While FCC Trashes Internet

Bruce Edward Walker
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July 29, 2011
When President Barack Obama requested this past spring that government agencies conduct a cost analysis on burdensome regulations, no one really expected anything to come of it.

Government’s $7 Billion Broadband Waste

Bruce Edward Walker
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July 26, 2011
As members of Congress and the Obama administration creep ever closer to a deal to raise the debt ceiling, it becomes increasingly clear any plan that emerges will rewrite the nation’s tax code.

NEA to buy votes with video-game grants

Bruce Edward Walker
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June 10, 2011
The rarefied world of government arts funding apparently has run out of artists specializing in elephant dung and human-urine media. Now comes the National Endowment for the Arts announcement it will make grants for digital media—specifically video game design.

Walker: Big Brother is Watching

Bruce Edward Walker
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May 05, 2011
Our government has increasingly got things upside-down when it comes to information technology policy, and this topsy-turvy, reality-inverting attitude is especially evident with respect to privacy