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.
#244: Utah Wants a Warrant
#243: Will the Electric Scooter Movement Lose Its Charge?
#242: Hybrid Networks and the Future of Wireless
#241: Journalists v. Trump
#240: Techlash: What Do Americans Think?
#239: Net Neutrality: Can States Regulate the Internet?
#238: Breaking Down Encryption
#237: Prodigal Son Returns
#236: Low Hanging Fruit with Professor Daskal
#235: Hasta La Vista, Robocalls?!
#234: Judging Judge Kavanaugh
#233: The Sharing Economy is Dead... Long Live the Hustle Economy
#232: Nationalizing 5G
#231: Preview of the Internet Governance Forum USA 2018
#230: Updating the FCC's Kid Vid Rules with Commissioner O'Rielly
#229: LabMD Court Decision Ushers in a New Era for the FTC
#228: FBI Lost Count... Of Locked Phones
#227: Can Flightsharing Finally Take Off?
#226: The Fairness Doctrine: The Next Generation
#225: WHOIS going to deal with cybersecurity: GDPR Edition
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