TechBytes

Technology is a tool that can be used for good or evil, to empower the state or empower the people. We must choose continued individual liberty.

Imagine the surprise that online customers will receive when the lame duck Senate massively expands government power via the Internet.

For our innovation economy to flourish, we need a robust, functioning patent system, and ending the litigation treadmill would play a positive role.

Liberty-based solutions are better than voiding or limiting contracts, and forcing others to surrender their property.

A tax increase is usually the result of Congress acting; in this case Americans will get an estimated $14.7 billion tax increase next year if Congress doesn't act—by passing an extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act. The obstacle to this extension is Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who has his own tax-increase legislation, the Mainstreet Fairness Act.

There is intense international pressure to have a UN-type organization take control of Internet governance, fundamentally changing ICANN into an international governmental regulatory agency.

The FCC has no authority to sweep aside state law in order to promote municipally owned broadband networks.

In which a federal agency oversteps its legal authority and opposes state efforts to save taxpayer dollars. Again.

In June, the Supreme Court held that abstract ideas are not patentable and that merely implementing them via computer was not enough to make them so. While this decision provides some help, Congress must act to clarify the situation and end the very real harm to the overall patent system.

Updating the 28 year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) could protect the privacy of our electronic communications from the NSA, the IRS, and other federal agencies.