The guys finally make it back into the studio and are delighted to be joined by Roslyn Layton of Strand Consult, who is an expert on telecoms public policy. She was in town for an Ofcom consultation on net neutrality, so they start with a deep dive into that topic, including its many definitions and interpretations. An overlapping trending topic is the issue of whether the biggest video content producers should pay a ‘fair contribution’ to the cost of running networks, so they conclude with a discussion of that.

Net neutrality and fair contribution

SI 110 Infomaven Podcast

Gigi Sohn is a long-time public interest lawyer who spent the last 20 years advocating for policies that ensure that modern communications networks are robust, affordable and available to everyone.  She also served as Counselor to former FCC Chair Tom Wheeler and was nominated twice by President Biden to occupy the 5th seat on the FCC.  However, after 3 brutal Senate hearings, she withdrew her nomination.  In this interview, she gives her take on where we stand in this country with regard to Internet connectivity, federal oversight of the Internet, pay to play politics, monopoly control, and directions for the future.

Election Connection | Gigi Sohn, Pres. Biden's nomination for FCC Commissioner | 6-13-23

Roslyn Layton, Senior Vice President of Stand Consult joins Mobile UK's Live Better Connected podcast to discuss Net Neutrality, an area studied as part of her PhD. In this podcast episode, Roslyn discusses the net neutrality regulations and whether it is still having the intended effect in the modern age.

Find out more here: www.mobileuk.org/live-better-connected

#LiveBetterConnected

Live Better Connected Podcast - Episode 01: Roslyn Layton (Stand Consult)

The guest host for today's show is Brad Bannon. Brad runs Bannon Communications Research, a polling, message development and media firm which helps labor unions, progressive issue groups and Democratic candidates win public affairs and political campaigns. His show, 'Deadline D.C. with Brad Bannon,' airs every Monday from 3-4pm ET.

Brad is first joined by Mica Soellner, congressional reporter for Punchbowl News, to discuss the budget crisis that could lead to a federal government shutdown this Friday at midnight.

Then, Adam Conner, Vice President for Technology Policy at the Center for American Progress, talks with Brad about the F.C.C. possibly restoring Net Neutrality, President Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence, and a lawsuit by a bipartisan group of 42 U.S. Attorneys General against Meta, which alleges that features on Facebook and Instagram are addictive and are aimed at kids and teens.

Mica's Twitter handle is @MicaSoellnerDC and the handle for Punchbowl News is @PunchBowlNews.

Adam's Twitter handle is @AdamConner and the handle for the Center for American Progress is @amprog.
Adam's website is www.AdamConner.com and the website for the Center for American Progress is www.AmericanProgress.org.

You can watch a livestream of this broadcast at the following links:

Twitter - https://twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YqJDgMXzqEGV
Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/DeadlineDCWithBradBannon/videos/866957334828968/?mibextid=zDhOQc
YouTube - https://youtube.com/live/o1lfeWbPVYY?feature=share

Leslie Marshall Show: New Speaker, Same Govt. Shutdown Problems?; Net Neutrality, A.I., Meta Lawsuit

The pod is delighted to welcome special guest Igor Leprince, CEO of Boldyn Networks, to this week’s episode. After lamenting the Scott’s roaming experience in Venice, they start with an introduction to Boldyn and where it fits into the broader telecoms mix. That leads natural to an exploration of the neutral host market in general before they conclude with an analysis of America’s decision to reintroduce net neutrality rules.

Boldyn, neutral host and net neutrality

In a timely challenge to the potent political role of digital technology, Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology argues that right-wing ideology was built into both the technical and social construction of the digital world from the start. Leveraging more than a decade of research, David Golumbia, who passed away in 2023, traced how digital evangelism has driven a worldwide shift toward the political right, concealing inequality, xenophobia, dishonesty, and massive corporate concentrations of wealth and power beneath the idealistic presumption of digital technology as an inherent social good. George Justice wrote the foreword to Cyberlibertarianism, and is joined in conversation with Frank Pasquale.


George Justice is professor of English literature and provost at the University of Tulsa.

Frank Pasquale is professor of law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.

David Golumbia (1963–2023) was associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University and author of Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology; The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism; and The Cultural Logic of Computation.



EPISODE REFERENCES:
Tim Wu
Lawrence Lessig
Wikileaks
David E. Pozen: Transparency’s Ideological Drift https://openyls.law.yale.edu/handle/20.500.13051/10354
Stefanos Geroulanos / Transparency in Postwar France
#CreateDontScrape
David Golumbia / ChatGPT Should Not Exist (article)
M. T. Anderson / Feed
Jonathan Crary / Scorched Earth


"If you want to understand the origins of our information hellscape with its vast new inequalities, corrupt information, algorithmic control, population-scale behavioral manipulation, and wholesale destruction of privacy, then begin here."
—Shoshana Zuboff, author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

"Cyberlibertarianism is essential for understanding the contemporary moment and the recent past that got us here. It stands as a monumental magnum opus from a meticulous thinker and sharp social critic who is sorely missed."
—Sarah T. Roberts, director, Center for Critical Internet Inquiry, UCLA


Cyberlibertarianism: The Right-Wing Politics of Digital Technology is available from University of Minnesota Press.

Cyberlibertarianism and the fraught politics of the internet

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Mobile UK is the trade association for the UK’s mobile network operators -  EE, Virgin Media O2, Three and Vodafone. Our Live Better Connected podcast aims to showcase goal the power of mobile connectivity and how it improves everyday life and the prosperity of the UK as a whole.

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