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State Net Neutrality, Daniel A. Lyons
State Net Neutrality, Daniel A. Lyons
Daniel Lyons
For nearly a century, state regulators played an important role in telecommunications regulation. The 1934 Communications Act gave the Federal Communications Commission authority to regulate interstate telephone service, but explicitly left intrastate calls—which comprised 98% of Depression-era telephone traffic—to state public utility commissions. By the late 2000s, however, as landline telephony faded to obscurity, scholars and policymakers alike recognized that the era of comprehensive state telecommunications regulation had largely come to an end.
Perhaps surprisingly, however, the first years of the Trump Administration have seen a resurgence in state telecommunications regulation—driven not by state institutional concerns, but by policy disagreements …
Inside Job: The Assault On The Structure Of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Patricia A. Mccoy
Inside Job: The Assault On The Structure Of The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Patricia A. Mccoy
Patricia A. McCoy
Soon after the 2016 election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, while Republicans controlled Congress, opponents of the fledgling Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) opened a campaign against the Bureau. Their target was less the substance of federal consumer financial protection laws than the structure of the CFPB itself. This emphasis on structure was a response to the fact that Congress in 2010 had given special thought to the design of the CFPB to safeguard the Bureau and its mission.
In 2017, after legislation to weaken the Bureau’s structure failed in Congress and constitutional challenges to the …
The Right Way To Protect Privacy Throughout The Internet Ecosystem, Daniel A. Lyons
The Right Way To Protect Privacy Throughout The Internet Ecosystem, Daniel A. Lyons
Daniel Lyons
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