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Americans for Tax Reform & Digital Liberty File Comments to FCC on Best Practices for Preventing and Eliminating Digital Discrimination

Americans for Tax Reform and Digital Liberty jointly filed comments on February 21st with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding the agency’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Digital Discrimination. These comments explore the pitfalls that would result from the agency’s adoption of a disparate impact standard to measure digital discrimination, as opposed to a…

Waste Watch: The Dystopian Realities of the UTOPIA Project

Waste Watch dives into some of the most egregious, examples of government waste that politicians are leaving for future generations of American taxpayers to clean up.  The topic of the First Edition of Digital Liberty’s Waste Watch is the disastrous UTOPIA, or the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency.  Photo Credit: Brfootball, CC BY-SA 4.0…

Senators Introduce Legislation to Prevent Taxation of Broadband Grants

Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) recently introduced legislation to exempt federal broadband grants from consideration as taxable income for private ISPs who received them. This would be a sensible move to prevent waste in new federal broadband programs.  These grants are currently considered part of a firm’s gross…

U.S. is Behind on Spectrum Allocation for 5G, Reports Find

A pair of recently-released reports highlight how the United States is falling behind in the race to 5G and trailing other nations in mid-band spectrum allocation. As industry has repeatedly made clear, more mid-band spectrum is needed to meet demand and facilitate 5G deployment; U.S. networks current support more…

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…

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…

New Paper: Failings of Khan’s Radical Economic Agenda

Author: Tom Spencer Paper: An analysis of Lina Khan’s treatment of vertical integration Lina Khan’s reckless pursuit of “reforming” the FTC is guided by her belief that the agency needs “bold leadership willing to use the full breadth of its expansive authority.” The “bold” approach…

Broadcasting through COVID

By: Katie McAuliffe As the nation continues to face uncertainty in the wake of COVID-19, government needs to be creative in assisting individuals and industry, especially community businesses, without raising taxes or implementing an unending parade of spending increases. This can be done through thoughtful distribution of already appropriated funding. …