Digital Liberty advocates for a consumer-driven market free from heavy regulation or taxation of the Internet, technology, telecommunications, video games, and media.
Antitrust
Antitrust Hearing: Mark Missed Again
By: Noah Vehafric On Thursday, February 25, the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law held a hearing entitled “Reviving Competition, Part 1: Proposals to Address Gatekeeper Power and Lower Barriers to Entry Online”. As the name suggests, it’s the first part of a series of hearings looking…
Digital Divide
Utility Poles Create Unexpected Barriers to Broadband Deployment
By: Katie McAuliffe The past year saw consumer demand for broadband access at an all-time high. Broadband providers have also been itching to continue investing enormous levels of capital to expand service to new and underserved areas. Despite having the supply and the demand, there has been one…
Bad Proposals
Digital Liberty Joins Coalition Opposing Wasteful Expansion of E-Rate
Today Digital Liberty signed onto a letter opposing the FCC’s attempt to expand the E-Rate program for the use of remote learning. Remote learning during the pandemic is an important mission. Our students want to stay in school, that is why Congress has already given nearly $70 billion in…
Broadband
Broadband Expanded to More Americans with Private Sector Investment
By: Noah Vehafric As the COVID-19 pandemic continues into the new year, one of the lessons we can takeaway is how important having access to broadband is. Americans use broadband to work, see healthcare providers and students use it to learn – all from their home. Families and communities without…
5G
Realizing the Potential of 5G
By Noah Vehafric 5G technology, with its increased bandwidth, low latencies, and increased security from previous generations of communications technologies, is going to provide some serious growth and innovation to the American economy. In a recent report, it’s estimated that 5G technologies will increase U.S. GDP anywhere between $1.4…
FCC
Digital Liberty Supports Marketing Opportunities for Connected Devices
You might not realize that all connected devices go through a pretty strict testing process to ensure there isn’t any harmful interference with other devices that also use spectrum to communicate. Because of outdated rules manufactures product launches have been seriously delayed. Rather than being able to have test products,…
Antitrust
New OpEd in Morning Consult: Antitrust Threats to Fintech
Digital liberty’s Executive Director, Katie McAuliffe, published a new OpEd in the Morning Consult discussing how the Zeal for Antitrust is threatening Finntech. The Department of Justice has recently file lawsuit against Visa from acquiring the company Plaid – which is a company that allows users to share their…
5G
Update: The Opposition to Nationalized 5G Remains Broad and Clear
By Katie McAuliffe and Noah Vehafric In addition to broad opposition that already exists to the prospect of the Pentagon owning and operating a 5G network, Congressman Tony Cárdenas (D-CA-29) led a bipartisan coalition of 53 members of Congress urging leadership to oppose a proposal to nationalized 5G. The…