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Open Issues is published by Kent Mewhort.

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Get rid of the Internet Choke Points
February 19th, 2012

The Threats These last couple of months have seen no shortage of threats to the open internet. Most readers of this blog have probably heard about SOPA, the U.S. Congress's attempt to grant the government powers to censor websites. If it were not for the backlash that stopped the bill in its tracks... Read more »

Cut the cord! on The Telephone (part 2)
July 13th, 2011

Last week, I discussed cutting the cord cable television and switching over completely to the internet. In this article, I talk about doing the same for the old telephone. The Current Context Remember back when long distance rates were sky-high? Well, I barely do, but I do remember they were high. Read more »

Cut the cord! on Cable Television (part 1)
July 8th, 2011

One cord for telephone, one cord for cable, and another for the internet. Why do we all have so many cords when it's all just internet in this modern day and age? The short answer is, in fact, very short: money. The ability to bill you multiple times for the same product is a boon for cable and te... Read more »

Groupon and Your Consumer Rights
June 19th, 2011

Wired Magazine posted an intriguing article yesterday about some allegedly questionable business practices of Groupon, the group-buy website that has exploded in popularity over the past year. Consumer protection advocates Benjamin Edelman and Paul Kominers estimate that Groupon may potentially pilf... Read more »

Securing Electronic Health Records
June 19th, 2011

At the First Summit on the Future of Health Privacy last Monday, there was a lot talk of interesting talk about electronic health records, as these are are now being widely rolled out in the U.S. In general, I'm an advocate of technological solutions to policy problems, with the law to backup the t... Read more »

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