Digital Liberty advocates for a consumer-driven market free from heavy regulation or taxation of the Internet, technology, telecommunications, video games, and media.
Antitrust
With 3-2 FTC Majority, Chair Khan has Ability to Enact her Progressive Anti-Consumer Agenda
By Rich Sill With the Senate voting 51-50 to confirm Alvaro Bedoya as the fifth FTC Commissioner– and third Democrat– Chair Lina Khan now has free reign to implement her progressive agenda. This could include, but is not limited to, going after and/or attempting to break up large companies like Amazon because she…
Blog
Jordan Questions Khan’s Impartiality on Musk’s Twitter Purchase
by Rich Sill Representative Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan regarding her former employer, Open Markets Institute, stating that the federal government should block Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter. In the letter, Jordan addressed his concern that Khan’s former…
Blog
Secretary Raimondo Testifies to Senate Commerce Committee about Broadband and Chips
By Rich Sill Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo testified at a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing on April 27th regarding the budget for broadband deployment and domestic semiconductor production. At the meeting, she informed committee members of the Biden Administration’s commitment to prioritizing broadband…
Blog
Encryption Provides Millions with Privacy and Security
By Rich Sill Privacy and security are the utmost priorities of millions of internet users. Popular messaging apps like WhatsApp from Meta, Signal and Telegram all use end-to-end encryption to keep users’ messages and searches private and secure. Users’ messages are scrambled up by their devices and then unscrambled by…
Blog
EU’s Digital Markets Act Subverts Competition and Security
By Rich Sill As the world becomes more digitized and enters a permanent hybrid-work economy, governments should be helping incentivize major tech companies to innovate for a better future. However, Europe is attempting to undermine American tech companies with the Digital Markets Act. The European Union’s proposed rules are an…
Antitrust
United States Continues to Outpace Europe on Broadband
By Rich Sill As the United States continues to innovate and expand its broadband infrastructure from sea to shining sea, it should not be looking to Europe for guidance. For years, the European Union has been behind the United States in broadband deployment, adoption, investment, and competition due to valuing…
FCC
FCC Oversight Hearing: American Broadband Survived the Pandemic, Don’t Kill It with Misdirected Subsidies
By Rich Sill The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing on FCC oversight on March 31. This was the first time under the Biden administration that all four FCC commissioners were called to testify to the committee. At the hearing, FCC Chairwoman…
5G
Letter to the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
Dear Members of the House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, During your hearing on “5G and Beyond: Exploring the Next Wireless Frontier.” Digital Liberty would like to recommend extending FCC auction authority, adherence to the interagency process for spectrum allocations, and avoidance of instituting a minimum book tax. FCC auction…