October 2017
CNN mocks Trump with 'facts first' ads
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 12:14Eugene Volokh: Freedom of expression on campus: An overview of some recent surveys
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 12:14Ranking global cities on public safety innovation
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 12:14How Big Tech Became A Bipartisan Whipping Boy
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 12:14Police turn body cams into tools for public relations, not accountability
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 12:14In Joke Few Find Funny, Czech President Waves Fake Gun Marked ‘For Journalists’
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 12:14Antitrust and Innovation: What the Alarmists Get Wrong
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Thursday, October 26, 2017
10-11:30 am
https://itif.org/events/2017/10/26/antitrust-and-innovation-what-alarmis...
Many technology industries are characterized by relatively high levels of industry concentration, with one or a few firms holding significant market share. This has sparked alarm in some regions, such as Europe, and among both progressive advocates on the left and populists on the right. Many are asserting that such concentration is anti-consumer and are calling for more aggressive antitrust enforcement, including limiting mergers and even breaking up large firms.
Yet, starting with the work of economist Joseph Schumpeter, and building steadily in the last two decades, many antitrust scholars have shown that innovation industries have unique characteristics that lead to increased concentration—and moreover that, in many cases, the concentration helps consumers and spurs economic growth.
Please join ITIF for an expert panel discussion on the ongoing policy debate about competition policy in innovation industries, including the latest research on the unique economics of innovation industries.
Speakers
Robert D. Atkinson
President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Moderator
Carl ShapiroCarl Shapiro
Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy, Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley.
John M. Yun
Director of Economic Education at the Global Antitrust Institute (GAI), George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School
Howard Shelanski
Professor of Law
Georgetown University
his event will be live-streamed and a recording will be available following the event. Follow @ITIFdc during the event and join the conversation using #ITIFantitrust
Encouraging 5G Wireless Broadband Services: Benefits & Roadblocks
American Consumer Institute
Tuesday, October 31, 2017
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/encouraging-5g-wireless-broadband-services-...
An estimated $275 billion is needed to upgrade the nation’s wireless infrastructure over the next 7 years. Add to this cost the daunting task of overcoming onerous regulations that sometimes delay or block permits and significantly raise investment costs – spread across 50 states, 3,000 counties and 20,000 incorporated places. It can be progress denied for millions of wireless broadband consumers.
How much economic growth could be lost by excessive state and local regulations? What are the costs of permit delays? How many jobs are lost from red tape? Are there workable policy solutions that can encourage investment and network deployment?
Join an expert group of panelists to discuss the hurdles to next generation wireless (5G) deployment:
- Doug Brake, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
- Wayne Crews, Competitive Enterprise Institute
- Anna-Maria Kovacs, Georgetown Center for Business and Public Policy
- Steve Pociask, American Consumer Institute
Lunch to be served.
The Media and Polarization: Golden Age or End of an Era?
Politico
Wednesday, Oct 25, 2017
8:30 AM
http://www.politico.com/live-events/2017/10/25/the-media-and-polarizatio...
The Trump administration’s Federal Communications Commission recently made a rule change that opens the door to more aggressive mergers of media companies.
Join POLITICO for a timely and important conversation about the future of the news business and how the media are responding to the rise of partisan tribalism. We will explore the implications of the FCC’s new policy and of the Sinclair merger in particular.
At a time of rising political polarization, disrupted business models and proposed media mergers, are we witnessing the end of journalism as we’ve known it?