Digital Liberty advocates for a consumer-driven market free from heavy regulation or taxation of the Internet, technology, telecommunications, video games, and media.
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 Because of outdated rules manufactures product launches have been seriously delayed.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…
FCC
FCC Votes to Uphold The Restoring Internet Freedom Order
By Noah Vehafric Today the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 in support of an order that would uphold their original Restoring Internet Freedom Order after it was reviewed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The Restoring Internet Freedom (RIF) Order was the FCC’s…
FCC
FCC to Vote to on Repurposing the 5.9 GHz Spectrum for expanded WiFi Operations and Automotive Safety
By Katie McAuliffe WASHINGTON – Yesterday FCC Chairman Ajit Pai announced that the Commission will vote on new rules at their November meeting to repurpose 5.9 GHz spectrum to allocate additional spectrum for use by unlicensed devices like WiFi. If the rules were approved by the Commission, the…
5G
The Case is Clear: Broad Opposition Exists to Nationalized 5G
By Katie McAuliffe and Noah Vehafric With the Department of Defense’s request for information (RFI) asking for input into building and operating a shared civilian-military 5G network across the nation being well over a month old, we can step back and take a look at the broad opposition that…
5G
Digital Liberty Joins Coalition Letter Opposing Nationalized 5G
Today, Digital Liberty signed onto a coalition letter with over 40 other organizations addressed to Senate Majority Whip, John Thune, expressing gratitude for his leadership in collecting a group of 18 other Senators to openly oppose any attempt to create a nationalized 5G network in the United States. The Senators…
Antitrust
Preconceived Conclusions Coming out of House Antitrust Hearings
by Isabelle Morales On Thursday, October 1, the House Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law held a hearing entitled, “Proposals to Strengthen the Antitrust Laws and Restore Competition Online.” Chairman David N. Cicilline began the hearing by describing big tech companies as the kind of monopolies we last saw…