Back in 2010, when the Supreme Court decided Citizens United, it said that we didn’t need to worry about equating money with speech. Allowing unlimited corporate expenditures on campaign ads wouldn’t distort electioneering communications because people could judge for themselves what to believe. As long as there was good disclosure about who was speaking. The … Continue reading Farewell to Transparency: 10th Cir. Says Citizens United Need Not Disclose on Electioneering Films…
Author: Ellen Goodman
Private Equity Gobbling Up Public TV Stations: What Does the Public Get?
Public stations in Connecticut and San Mateo may be at the leading edge of a mass sell-off of public media assets in the 2015 massive FCC spectrum auction. These stations have entered into agreements with LocusPoint Networks, a subsidiary of the private equity firm Blackstone Group, whereby LocusPoint shoulders the stations’ operating costs until the … Continue reading Private Equity Gobbling Up Public TV Stations: What Does the Public Get?…
Dr. Shawn Powers Speaking on The Real Cyber War: A Political Economy of Internet Freedom
LECTURE September 18 @12:30 in Faculty Lounge 4th Floor, Rutgers University Law School 217 N. 5th Street, Camden, NJ This TALK explores several cases in which governments have tried to control domestic information flows for political advantage. China, Egypt, Denmark and the United States each implement control—through law, technology, subsidy and force—over domestic Internet space. Using different methods and understandings … Continue reading Dr. Shawn Powers Speaking on The Real Cyber War: A Political Economy of Internet Freedom…
Digital is Different SCOTUS Says When it Comes to Constitutional Privacy Protections
Continuing and strengthening a trend in U.S. privacy law, the Supreme Court decided on June 25 that the constitutional prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures (Fourth Amendment) requires police to get a warrant before searching a mobile phone incident to arrest. Two years ago, in United States v. Jones, another unanimous Court decided that law … Continue reading Digital is Different SCOTUS Says When it Comes to Constitutional Privacy Protections…
The FCC Hasn’t Really Shifted on Open Internet; Net Neutrality Was Never the Law
Reaction to the FCC’s announcement yesterday that it was circulating new open Internet rules blazed, with many claiming that the FCC had dramatically shifted course and was set to kill net neutrality. The truth is that the FCC never endorsed the strongest versions of net neutrality and has hardly budged. The agency’s tentative plans don’t … Continue reading The FCC Hasn’t Really Shifted on Open Internet; Net Neutrality Was Never the Law…