Why Internet advocates are against the anti–sex trafficking bill
This month, Congress is considering whether to pass legislation intended to combat sex trafficking online. It may sound like a worthy goal, but it would undermine a more than 20-year-old law that has...
View ArticleFOSTA sex trafficking bill may worsen deepfake porn problem
Online sexual abuse may become harder to prevent, thanks to a bill making its way through Congress. Ironically, the purpose of that bill is to curb online sexual abuse. “Deepfake porn,” which involves...
View ArticleInternet Law Scholars and Organizations Address Ambassador Lighthizer,...
January 21, 2018 Dear Ambassador Lighthizer, Secretary Guajardo, and Minister Freeland, We are American, Canadian, and Mexican scholars and advocates in the field of Internet law and policy. We write...
View ArticleFrequently asked questions: Section 230, sex trafficking, and current...
What is 47 U.S.C. § 230 of the Communications Decency Act? Section 230 shields online intermediaries from liability for speech that they host or republish. It protects the whole range of interactive...
View ArticleA role for trade rules in Internet governance
The Internet Governance Forum is a yearly meeting in which civil society, government, and private sector representatives from around the world convene to talk about internet policy issues. The IGF...
View ArticleHow supporting internet freedom in Cambodia makes America great
I’ve had the privilege of working on internet freedom issues in a range of foreign countries, but none of my partnerships abroad has meant more to me than my work in Cambodia. Which is what you’d...
View ArticleCuba: Mi casa es su casa
There is a truism, fashionable in American foreign policy circles, that the liberalization of trade will, over time, soften the contours of authoritarian regimes, as the oppressed become acquainted...
View ArticleCatching the Third Wave: A tale of two tech-policy battles
In his recent book “The Third Wave,” AOL founder Steve Case outlines what the latest generation of technology companies will need to do to succeed, stressing the importance of proactively and...
View ArticleR Street panel on transferring IANA functions
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Republicans want to attach Ted Cruz’s internet governance language to the...
The following post was co-authored by R Street technology policy program director Zach Graves. SOURCE: Giphy Sept. 30 marks the end of the federal government’s fiscal year, which means both Republicans...
View ArticleAnne Hobson on the ICANN transition and the future of internet governance
On Oct. 1, the National Telecommunications and Infrastructure Administration’s (NTIA) contract with the nonprofit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) expires and the transition...
View ArticleLawrence Strickling cites R Street in Senate hearing on internet governance
You can see the full video of the hearing here. Also see R Street’s analysis of the arguments for and against the transition. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0...
View ArticleDomain name not resolved: Breaking down the debate over the ICANN transition
The following blog post was co-authored by R Street Senior Technology Policy Program Director Zach Graves. Is Obama giving away the internet? According to some conservatives, like Sen. Ted Cruz,...
View ArticleThe EU’s misguided call to ban zero rating
The net neutrality debate has come to Europe. Following a go-ahead European Parliament in October 2015, the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC) is writing the network...
View ArticleR Street response to BEREC on zero-rating and net-neutrality guidelines
This letter represents a response by R Street Institute to recent public comments on your proposed guidelines for network-neutrality rules. Because R Street interprets some of these comments as...
View ArticleMost of the world still isn’t online, and that’s a problem
According to the United Nations’ International Telecommunication Union, 4.2 billion people –nearly two-thirds of the world’s population – have no internet access. This massive untapped population –...
View ArticleInternet governance and the free market
With the U.S. government set to relinquish its last vestiges of its control over the internet’s functions through the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), R Street hosted a panel at its...
View ArticleGoogle to France: We can’t pick this Bonaparte
Today’s announcement from Google that the company will appeal a French agency’s order to abide by France’s version of the so-called “right to be forgotten” all over the world doesn’t just represent...
View ArticleFrance fines Google for failing to forget
France’s data-privacy authority announced today that it will impose a fine on Google for failing adequately to comply with the so-called “right to be forgotten.” (For background on the right to be...
View ArticleEU platform regulations may hurt consumers and European startups and lock in...
In the response we at the R Street Institute provided to the European Commission’s survey on “Digital Single Market” regulation of what the commission calls “online platforms,” we challenged the...
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