<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#222222;font-size:small">The AEI is a Washington DC thijnk tank established in 1938. While nominally non-partisan, they are known for harboring right wing viewpoints. As the Republican-controlled 114th Congress gets under way there is refreshed vigor in tackling tech issues. Much of this is summed up in Senator Thune's talk here, which lays out a comprehensive agenda.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#222222;font-size:small"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#222222;font-size:small">We've already seen the House and Senate launch their own Open Internet scheme. The FCC panelists seemed all to be resigned to a Title II reclassication, and predicted it would turn out messy. The policy panel considered that technical issues had become over politicized. Effort has to be made by both sides to find compromise solutions. The CommActUpdate will take time. The third 'governance' panel was spiced up by the presence of David Post and Ambassador David Gross. In his remarks the Senator had mentioned that Congress intends a hands on approach to the IANA transition. He promised a hearing. Another topic was the announcement the day before by the President of France that social media could be penalized for harboring hate speech, with Andrea Glorioso from the audience invoking the specter of global resistance to "US First Amendment imperialism" which was responded to by another audience member who criticized European privacy exceptionalism. There was back and forth over who has the real power, states or the private sector.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#222222;font-size:small"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:#222222;font-size:small">I've broken the 4 hour live webcast into segments. Remember that you can set YouTube to run at up to 2x speed to skim.</div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><u></u><div style="direction:ltr;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;color:#666666;text-align:center;margin:0px;padding:0px;background:#dddddd"><table style="width:100%;background:#dddddd" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#DDDDDD"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none!important"> joly posted: "On Wednesday January 28 2015 the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosted Tech policy 2015: The year ahead. The event comprised 3 panels which examined the FCC, Congress, and international regulatory processes respectively. Senator John Thune, chair of " </span><table style="width:100%;padding:10px" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td><div style="direction:ltr;margin:0px auto;overflow:hidden"><table style="width:100%;text-align:left;min-width:320px;margin:0px auto;background-color:#ffffff" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%;height:8px;background-color:#43a4d0" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><br><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#ffffff"><tbody><tr><td><table style="width:100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><div style="direction:ltr;margin-top:1em"><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.aei.org/"><img style="margin-bottom: 12px; clear: both; float: right; margin-left: 1em; padding: 4px; border: 1px solid #cccccc; background-color: white;" src="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/AEI.png" alt="AEI" border="0"></a>On <strong>Wednesday January 28 2015</strong> the <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.aei.org/">American Enterprise Institute</a></strong> (AEI) hosted <strong><a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.aei.org/events/tech-policy-2015-year-ahead/">Tech policy 2015: The year ahead</a></strong>. The event comprised 3 panels which examined the FCC, Congress, and international regulatory processes respectively. <strong>Senator John Thune</strong>, chair of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee delivered a lunchtime keynote. Video is below.<br> <strong>Twitter</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/thuneataei?f=realtime">#ThuneatAEI</a></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">===</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>PANEL: Regulatory activism at the FCC: Looking ahead to a busy year</strong><br> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-NvM5SLfY?rel=0&start=388&end=4066&w=600&h=338"><img style="margin-bottom: 12px;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/qV-NvM5SLfY/0.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a><br> <strong>View on YouTube</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://youtu.be/qV-NvM5SLfY?t=06m28s">http://youtu.be/qV-NvM5SLfY?t=06m28s</a><br> <strong>Speakers</strong>: Richard Bennett, AEI; Matthew Berry, FCC;Babette Boliek, AEI;Gus Hurwitz, AEI; Daniel Lyons, AEI.<br> <strong>Moderator</strong>: Mark Jamison, PURC, University of Florida</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">===</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>KEYNOTE: John Thune, US Senate (R-SD)</strong><br> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-NvM5SLfY?rel=0&start=4143&end=5863&w=600&h=338"><img style="margin-bottom: 12px;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/qV-NvM5SLfY/0.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a><br> <strong>View on YouTube</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://youtu.be/qV-NvM5SLfY?t=1h09m20s">http://youtu.be/qV-NvM5SLfY?t=1h09m20s</a><br> <strong>Prepared statement</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://www.aei.org/publication/tech-policy-2015-year-ahead-thune-remarks/">http://www.aei.org/publication/tech-policy-2015-year-ahead-thune-remarks/</a></p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">===</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>PANEL: Can Congress fix communications policy? Prospects for statutory reform</strong><br> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-NvM5SLfY?rel=0&start=6770&end=10563&w=600&h=338"><img style="margin-bottom: 12px;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/qV-NvM5SLfY/0.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a><br> <strong>View on YouTube</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://youtu.be/qV-NvM5SLfY?t=1h52m50s">http://youtu.be/qV-NvM5SLfY?t=1h52m50s</a><br> <strong>Speakers</strong>: Ray Baum, House Committee on Energy and Commerce; Peter Davidson, Verizon; Mark Jamison, PURC, University of Florida; Roslyn Layton, AEI; Bret Swanson, AEI.<br> <strong>Moderator</strong>: Richard Bennett, AEI</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em">===</p><p style="direction:ltr;font-size:14px;line-height:1.4em;color:#444444;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px 0px 1em"><strong>PANEL: Cyberspace vs. nation states: Is the Internet (still) ungovernable?</strong><br> <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV-NvM5SLfY?rel=0&start=11204&w=600&h=338"><img style="margin-bottom: 12px;" src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/qV-NvM5SLfY/0.jpg" alt="" border="0"></a><br> <strong>View on YouTube</strong>: <a style="text-decoration:underline;color:#2585b2" href="http://youtu.be/qV-NvM5SLfY?t=3h6m43s">http://youtu.be/qV-NvM5SLfY?t=3h6m43s</a><br> <strong>Speakers</strong>: David Gross, Wiley Rein LLP; David Post, New America Foundation; Ariel Rabkin, AEI; Tom Sydnor, AEI; Shane Tews, AEI;<br> <strong>Moderator</strong>: Jeffrey Eisenach, AEI</p></div><p style="direction:ltr;line-height:1.4em;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;font-size:14px;color:#666666;padding:1em 0px 0em;width:auto"> </p><table style="width:auto" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="width:10px"><a style="border-radius:10em;border:1px solid #11729e;text-decoration:none;color:#ffffff;padding:5px 15px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.4em;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;margin-left:0px;white-space:nowrap;background-color:#2585b2" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7435#respond">Comment</a></td><td>   <a style="color:#2585b2;text-decoration:underline" href="http://isoc-ny.org/p2/7435#comments">See all comments</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table style="width:100%;text-align:left;border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#dddddd;background-color:#efefef" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" bgcolor="#efefef"><tbody><tr><td style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:#f3f3f3;color:#888888;font-family:'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px;background:#efefef"><p style="direction:ltr;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