Washington State Requires That Broadband Infrastructure Subsidies Be Used For...
Between COVID relief and the recently passed infrastructure bill, there’s an historic influx of more than $60 billion being thrown at this country’s substandard broadband networks. And, as you might...
View ArticleOpen Access Makes Research More Widely Cited, Helping Spread Knowledge
Open access has been discussed many times here on Techdirt. There are several strands to its story. It’s about allowing the public to access research they have paid for through tax-funded grants,...
View ArticleBiden Re-Announces $42 billion Investment In Broadband, Because Apparently...
While the Biden administration has been a bit of a hot mess on broadband consumer protection (see: the Gigi Sohn fiasco), the administration has done some amazing things for overall investment in...
View ArticleComcast, Centurylink Fail To Derail Community-Owned Gigabit Fiber Network In...
More than 600 communities across the U.S. have decided to build their own broadband networks after decades of predatory behavior, slow speeds, and high prices by regional telecom monopolies. That...
View ArticleTing Disrupting Mediocre U.S. Broadband By Partnering With Annoyed Cities...
Back in 2015 domain registrar Tucows announced it would hope to modestly kickstart stagnant broadband competition by buying a small Virginia ISP by the name of Blue Ridge InternetWorks (BRI). Operating...
View ArticlePublisher Wants $2,500 To Allow Academics To Post Their Own Manuscript To...
As a Walled Culture explained back in 2021, open access (OA) to published academic research comes in two main varieties. “Gold” open access papers are freely available to the public because the...
View ArticleNY Proposes Mandated Open Access To Social Media APIs
Given just how many terrible state social media laws we keep seeing, it’s nice to finally see one that, conceptually, I agree with, though practically still worry about. NY state senator Brad...
View ArticleAnother Reason Why Diamond Access Makes Sense: No Economic Barriers To...
Walled Culture has written numerous posts about the promise and problems of open access. An important editorial in the journal Web Ecology raises an issue for open access that I’ve not seen mentioned...
View ArticleSocial Media Isn’t A Shopping Mall
Something strange is happening in the legal academy, and we’re worried about it. On January 23, 2024, the progressive policy organization American Economic Liberties Project filed an amicus brief in...
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The Right To Advertise?
Sometimes, an advertisement is worth a thousand op-eds. Last week, one of us co-authored an op-ed criticizing an amicus brief filed by the American Economic Liberties Project and several prominent law...
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