A Smart “Non-Call” By Antitrust Referees

January 7, 2013

When there is no foul, a good ref keeps the penalty flag in his pocket. Regulators made a smart “non-call” against Google.

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Searching For A Real Antitrust Problem

October 25, 2012

Regulators searched for an antitrust fight and found Google. They would do better to look at college athletics.

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Google Shakes Up The Internet Access Business

August 30, 2012

Google’s emergence as an Internet service provider could mean more competition and a greater push toward genuine net neutrality.

Initial Public Offering (and Facebook) Blues

August 1, 2012

Congress thinks Facebook’s IPO proves the system is broken. In fact, it may be a sign that the system still works.

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Why Google Scares People

March 7, 2012

Yet another privacy flap leads to the conclusion that people are innately frightened by what Google is, rather than what it does.

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A Judge Defends Property Against Google-ization

March 30, 2011

As an author, I own the copyright to this commentary. Google, with my knowledge and approval, will show you an excerpt, but will send you to my company’s website (or an authorized republisher) if you want to read the whole thing. What Google cannot do is take this work and sell it without my permission, even if Google, or I, or a publisher, were to assemble the past 21 months’ …

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When Bosses Collude Against Their Talent

October 20, 2010

Back in the 1980s, Major League Baseball owners were unhappy about having to match other teams’ lucrative offers to free-agent stars. They made what they thought was a gentleman’s agreement to shut down the talent market. It worked, though only for awhile. There were 62 free agents after the 1985 season. Only four changed teams. There was a similarly peculiar lack of demand for top-tier players following the 1986 and …

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Protecting Internet Freedom In Friendly Countries

March 4, 2010

In late 2006 some schoolchildren in Turin, Italy, filmed themselves bullying an autistic classmate. They then uploaded the clip to Google Video. No one at Google knew these children. No one at the company saw the video before it was posted. When Google was notified of the video’s existence, it immediately took it down and worked with the police to identify who had uploaded it. But last month, four Google …

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Time For A SecureNet

January 21, 2010

On an early spring day in north-central China two years ago, the People’s Liberation Army held a ceremony to mark the establishment of an information warfare militia unit. Local dignitaries were invited, and the county government noted on its Web site that the militia’s peacetime mission would be to “extensively collect information from adversary networks and establish databases of adversary network data.” In wartime, the militia’s assignment would be to …

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News Sites Erect Walls Against Google

December 4, 2009

According to a fictional study cited in the popular humor paper, The Onion, the majority of print newspapers are now purchased by kidnappers seeking to prove the date. The article reports that, “In an effort to cater to their sole remaining customer base, many newspapers have started to run features and advertising targeted at the ruthless abductors.” Things are not really that bad in the newspaper business — not yet, …

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