Antitrust Provides a More Reasonable Framework for Net Neutrality Regulation

Yesterday, the Free State Foundation published a new Perspectives from FSF Scholars entitled “Antitrust Provides a More Reasonable Framework for Net Neutrality Regulation” by Joshua Wright, a member of FSF’s Board of Academic Advisors and a former Commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Professor Wright discusses why using antitrust, instead of Title II regulation, would provide sufficient regulatory oversight of broadband providers by examining vertical agreements on a case-by-case basis while also encouraging investment and fostering competition.

Two New Perspectives from FSF Scholars!

This week, the Free State Foundation published two Perspectives from FSF Scholars. President Randolph May and Visiting Fellow Gregory Vogt coauthored a paper entitled "It’s Time for U.S. Leadership Regarding Zero-Rating and Similar Programs." This Perspectives discusses how zero-rated services can expand broadband access around the world and why a hands off approach from the FCC regarding zero-rated services could influence foreign governments to do the same.

In a different Perspectives from FSF Scholars entitled "Video Report Data Undermine the FCC’s Rationale for New Device Regulation," Senior Fellow Seth Cooper points out the inconsistencies between the FCC's Seventeenth Video Competition Report and its February 2016 proposed set-top box rulemaking.