Does Free Press Coordinate Strategy with Google?

Posted by Richard Bennett

The ethics complaints against former Google lobbyist Andrew McLaughlin aren’t going away. Over a two-week period in February 2010, McLaughlin exchanged numerous emails with Free Press director Ben Scott, another prominent advocate for Net neutrality who has coordinated policy strategy with Google and attended joint meetings with Google at the FCC and White House on [...]

Wrong Way

Posted by Richard Bennett

The FCC’s “Third Way” rhetoric is especially interesting to ITIF because the notion that a third way was needed is something ITIF president Rob Atkinson and current Obama advisor Phil Weiser introduced in a 2006 paper. The rhetoric of the third way doesn’t align with the use of a Title II classification, however, because Section [...]

Assertions without Fact

Posted by Richard Bennett

Eric Schmidt made an interesting point about Washington, DC think tanks recently: “I spend so much time in Washington now because of the work that I’ve been doing, I deal with all these people who make assertions without fact,” he said. Policy people “will hand me some report that they wrote or they’ll make some [...]