Thierer looks at two schools of thought in Net Policy, the detractors and the supporters. (The supporters will be reviewed in another post.) In this article found in The Next Digital Decade book from Tech Freedom, Thierer introduces us to two “schools of Internet pessimism”.

Microsoft attempts to recruit iPhone and PS3 hacker George Hotz as a “developer”.

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Tech Freedom The Next Digital Decade Berin Szoka & Contributing Authors Berin Szoka along with Adam Marcus, Larry Downes, James E. Dunstan, Charlie, Kennedy, and Geoffrey Manne, many of whom are ex-pats of The Progress & Freedom Foundation, have formed Tech Freedom a new digital think tank.  This week they launch their new think tank [...]

Who’s Who in Internet Politics: A Taxonomy of Information Technology Policy & Politics
Robert D. Atkinson
The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet

GigaOm has posted this image of some very interesting info regarding Apple’s App store. Certainly shows the digital economy at work! Note that if the monthly December trend continues that Apple is generating $6 billion a year from the app store!

Former Hill staffers along with National Journal Tech Daily Dose Editor Juliana Gruenwald discuss communications policy in the 112th Congress. They take a look at how a Republican controlled House may approach communications policy over the next two years.

Peterson and Cerasale discuss the issue of sales tax on the Internet. High points in the discussion revolve around whether online taxation would level the playing field between online retailers and brick-and-mortar locations, and whether or not states would do serious damage to the economy by attempting to tax out-of-state business.

H.R. 96 – To Prohibit the Federal Communications Commission from Further Regulating the Internet
Rep. Marsha Blackburn & 62 Cosponsors
1/5/2011

It has been a busy 2010 in the world of technology policy, and now we head full tilt into the wild blue yonder of 2011 hoping for free market successes and less rain slicked precipices. And I provide you with my Top 5 Tech Policy Issues of 2011.