The Wall Street Journal noted last week that American shareholders will lose tens of billions of dollars in investment income from their stock holdings in Silicon Valley companies like Google and Apple if several European Union sham lawsuits prevail. These are generally suits alleging that America's dominant tech companies are acting like monopolists…

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today announced its full support for the “Nature Originals, Foster Art, and Keep Entertainment Safe Act” (“NO FAKES Act”).  The bipartisan legislation, introduced by Senators Marsha Blackburn (R – Tennessee), Thom Tillis (R – North Carolina…

Everyone these days – on both sides of the political spectrum – seems to want the feds to regulate internet access, prices and online content. They want the Federal Communications Commission to be the referee in terms of who gets connected to the internet and what can and can't be said. But three recent events highlight…

A shocking partisan switch is underway in the stratosphere of the tech titans: The industry known for its wokeness is betting big bucks on a Republican. Last week former President Donald Trump gave a thumbs up to the notion of teaming up with billionaire innovator Elon Musk if he wins in November. Hours later, Musk posted a message on X: "I am…

Thanks to a federal appellate court, any American who uses the internet just escaped catastrophe in the form of the Biden/Harris administration’s latest attempt to radically remake a critical sector of the economy.   Had the court not intervened, American consumers would be facing the disastrous imposition of socialized internet service…

In a letter organized by the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) and sent today to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, individual policy experts and representatives of over 30 national and state free-market organizations expressed deep concern about the Biden Administration’s disregard toward Congressional intent through its efforts to…

As the Biden administration flounders amid an increasingly grim reelection effort, blame often lies with its insistence on pursuing calamitous policies that are inherently defective, broadly unpopular and disastrous for the economy.   In other instances, however, Biden’s problem isn’t a defective underlying policy goal but rather…

Federal bureaucracies’ runaway self-expansion has reached such extremes that the United States Supreme Court stands poised to overturn the longstanding doctrine of “Chevron Deference” toward them in one of its most anticipated rulings this term.   In a new and even more egregious escalation of federal administrative abuse…

It's a miracle of private sector innovation and the magic of the free enterprise system that technologies that were only the playthings of the super-rich a generation ago are now available and affordable to almost all Americans.  Back in 2000, only half of Americans had internet access. Now it's 92%. Today, nearly 19 out of 20 adults have access…

The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today submitted the following Comment in opposition to the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) Proposed Rule entitled “Safeguarding and Securing the Open Internet."  CFIF argues that the proposed rule fails as a matter of objective market realities, violates the U.S. Supreme Court&rsquo…

Nothing exemplifies America's tech industry dominance in the global economy more than the meteoric rise of what is now being called the "Magnificent Seven" stocks – Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla. These companies single-handedly account for nearly all the gains in the stock market this year. They&…

In today’s charged political environment, it’s important to avoid gratuitous hyperbole, lest one cultivate a “crying wolf” fatigue.   It’s equally important, however, to recognize and sound the alarm on grave new policy threats, lest they take root and inflict further harm upon American consumers and our economy…

In a letter organized by the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) and sent today to U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, nearly three dozen signatories representing more than 30 national and state free-market organizations expressed concern with the Biden Administration’s disregard for Congressional intent in its efforts to impose…

Bidenomics continues to punish working Americans, sow uncertainty and imperil the U.S. economy.   That’s the leading reason why Joe Biden himself remains deeply unpopular, and his reelection prospects grow increasingly dubious.   According to the federal government’s own data, the Bidenomics agenda of heavy-handed…

Joe Biden suddenly finds himself in a deep hole, yet his administration inexplicably prefers to keep digging.   His policy mismanagement has put him behind Donald Trump by ten points in a new ABC News/Washington Post survey, but he doesn’t appear interested in correcting course.   Instead, the Biden Administration now sets…

 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel today announced her intent to pursue net neutrality regulations once again.  In response, Center for Individual Freedom president Jeffrey Mazzella released the following statement: “Calls for so-called net neutrality are the product…

If Elon Musk truly believes that Twitter is a front in the "battle for the future of civilization," he has a chance to prove it. The Biden administration has already threatened to investigate Musk on multiple occasions, which isn't surprising considering its unprecedented antagonizing toward free expression. Democrats like Sen. Elizabeth…

Across broad swaths of our economy, inflation continues to punish working Americans.  It now significantly leads the list of most urgent issues confronting the United States, with over 8 in 10 respondents in a separate survey reporting that it has caused hardship to their households in the past month.   According to the federal government…

The sweeping term “American Exceptionalism” encompasses myriad manifestations, from unrivaled innovation to prosperity to international altruism.   The primary wellspring for that exceptionalism throughout our history remains our comparative orientation toward free markets, individual liberty and limited government.  …

Remember the Y2K scare?   Twenty years later, it elicits a wry nostalgic smile.   At the time, however, a sizeable number of technologists warned of widespread chaos as the year 1999 became 2000.  Because many computer programs in use at the time only allowed two digits instead of four to mark the year, some claimed that…

ALEXANDRIA, VA – In a welcome development, Senator Roger Wicker (R – Mississippi) this week called for a rehearing on the Biden Administration’s controversial nomination of Gigi Sohn to sit on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).  Senator Wicker has raised potential ethical concerns regarding Ms. Sohn after reviewing…

Federal government incompetence, bureaucratic intransigence and crony capitalism are nothing new, and we’re already witnessing more of each as 2022 begins.   Private industry standing up against that incompetence, intransigence and crony capitalism, however, mark a refreshing and all-too-rare break from the norm.   At issue…

It’s a familiar adage that airplanes taking off and landing safely don’t make headlines.  It’s only news when one doesn’t.   Or, citing another adage, “If it bleeds, it leads.”  Where there’s no blood, few notice.   For public policy purposes going forward, however, it’…

  It’s like Bill Murray’s movie “Groundhog Day,” but not nearly as funny.   Yet another federal agency - this time the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) - is needlessly contesting 5G deployment, apparently more concerned with protecting its bureaucratic turf than allowing the United States to launch this…

Few quarters of American society absorbed the Covid shock serviceably, but the U.S. internet service sector offered one welcome example to the contrary.   Internet service actually improved over the course of the pandemic despite an onslaught of online traffic, and even today offers a rare exception to inflationary pressures infecting the…

"Government Cheese" is free cheese of suspicious quality produced for those on the dole.  It is usually rated grade “B” or “C” by the USDA, and therefore unfit to sell at market.  It is made from milk that is near to being out-of-date and the result is a very hard, funky cheese of totally unnatural color.&…

The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) last week joined a coalition of more than 30 free-market organizations and individuals on a letter to Congress advocating “specifically against proposals that would enact price controls, dramatically expand agency authority, and prioritize government-controlled internet.” The letter, which was organized…

ALEXANDRIA, VA – The Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) today joined a coalition of nearly two dozen free-market organizations on a letter opposing the Broadband Reform and Investment to Drive Growth in the Economy (BRIDGE) Act, introduced by Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colorado), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Angus King (I-Maine). The…

In a letter submitted today to the Federal Communications Commission (“FCC” of “Commission”), a broad coalition of national organizations and individual policy experts from across the ideological spectrum noted widespread concerns about the accuracy of the FCC’s broadband maps and called the Commission’s attention…

By now you’re likely familiar with Joe Biden’s muddled and cynically expansive definition of “infrastructure,” in his transparent effort to cram an endless variety of left-wing wish list items into a $2 trillion spending package to be paid by American taxpayers.   For her part, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D &ndash…