Andrew Orlowski

Collected Journalism

Tag: policy

  • A monkey hangers guide to Net Neutrality

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    My presentation to the Westminster eForum on Net Neutrality. I’ll turn this into an embeddable slide show eventually, honest. For now, see The Register for transcript and slides.… Read More

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  • Google snubs UK’s first Net Neutrality debate

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The first significant Net Neutrality debate to take place in the UK was held today at Westminster. Chaired by former trade minister Alun Michael and the Conservative shadow trade minister Charles Hendry, the event attracted the chief Telecoms regulator and ministry policy chief, a clutch of industry representatives, and a sprinkling of members of both…

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  • How AT&T chewed up, and spat out Net Neutrality

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    “It sure would be nice, but it doesn’t have much chance of happening because of market power, size, etc. I think it would be real hard to do. I don’t think the regulators would let that happen, in my judgment.” – Ed Whitacre on the possibility of taking over BellSouth, 2005. The definition of a…

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  • The New Paranoid style in American politics

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    The most interesting thing to emerge from the so-called ‘Net Neutrality’ bid had nothing to do with telecomms technology or policy. It’s the startling and, at the same time, banal fact that paranoia has become the default flavour of politics on the net. Phantoms fight phantoms, here. When the historian Richard Hofstadter wrote his famous…

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  • A neutral net is a neutered net?

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    So-called “network neutrality” legislation hampers innovation and harms business and the public, Verizon’s chief spokesperson said this week. Tom Tauke, Verizon’s executive VP of public affairs, said in a speech that efforts to legislate against discrimination would hamper the take up of multi-tier network applications such as VPNs. “The hospital that wants to provide home…

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  • Blanket digital licence fails in France

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    Andrew Orlowski

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    Under heavy pressure from the French government, the country’s parliament has voted against introducing the world’s first blanket licence for sharing digital media. A section that would have permitted internet users to freely exchange copyrighted material, effectively legitimizing file sharing, and hastening the demise of digital rights management (DRM) software, had passed an earlier reading…

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