Though its goal—to help bridge the digital divide—is laudible, the Universal Service Fund is a badly structured, badly run, wasteful, much abused, unsustainable program. Jim Dunstan, general counsel at TechFreedom, joins the show to discuss the many problems with the USF, and some of the proposals to fix it. For more, see Jim’s piece for the Regulatory Transparency Project, “The Arrival of the Federal Computer Commission?”; Corbin’s piece at Law & Liberty, “No Legislation Without Representation”; TechFreedom’s recent comments to the FCC on the future of the USF; and TechFreedom’s recent amicus brief on the unconstitutionality of the private entity that oversees the USF, the Universal Service Administrative Company.
#284: The Revolt of the Public
#283: Privacy and Surveillance in China
#282: Tech and the Biden Administration
#281: Should companies be allowed to acquire their start-up competitors?
#280: Section 230, Antitrust, and Consumer Protection
#279: Revising Section 230 Will Silence Marginalized Voices
#278: Privacy by Design
#277: Can the DOJ Break up Google?
#276: Nationalizing 5G?!
#275: The Future of Innovation
#274: Can Platforms Stop the Spread of Misinformation?
#273: [The] Breakup Speech: Antitrust and Free Speech
#272: Transparency, Tech, and Surveillance with WashingTech
#271: Pay Black Women, Pinterest
#270: Cryptocurrency and Florida’s Tech Policy
#269: Telehealth in the Age of COVID-19 – What’s Next?
#268: 5G Innovation w/ Samsung
#267: 5G and the Spectrum Wars
#266: The Economics of Tech Policy w/ TPI
#265: Preventing Algorithmic Discrimination
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