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Nick R. Brown

Nicholas R. Brown hails from Atlanta, where he currently resides after a recent stint in Washington, DC. He brings with him undergraduate degrees in political science and journalism, and a Masters of Public Administration. Mr. Brown specializes in High-Technology and Internet policy, and is a passionate political blogger and currently works for Digital Society. Additionally he has spent time with The Heritage Foundation and Competitive Enterprise Institute, he runs the website thelobbyist.net and is a contributor at The Daily Caller.

Latest from Nick R. Brown

Gamestop Rolls On in Down Economy

NEWS By NICK R. BROWN15 YEARS AGO

GameStop, the video game retailer, has recently released their fiscal year 2010 report and business is a boomin’!  The company announced a record sales year in the neighborhood of $9.47 billion. Profits increased to $237.8 million during the fiscal year.  GameStop is …

Fat Pipe Dreams

NEWS By NICK R. BROWN15 YEARS AGO

Richard Bennett recently posted a blog on a recent skirmish occurring over a North Carolina bill, H129, on municipal broadband projects.  The growing outcry has been that the bill is attempting to disallow municipal broadband and that the trend could continue into …

A New National Broadband Plan

NEWS By NICK R. BROWN15 YEARS AGO

James Goodmon, President & CEO of Capital Broadcasting Co. has introduced a new proposal for the National Broadband Plan to Chairman Julius Genachowski and the Federal Communications Commission. Goodmon claims that part of the current NBP that will reclaim and auction spectrum …

Top 10 + 1 Reasons to Say No to Government Takeover of the Internet

NEWS By NICK R. BROWN15 YEARS AGO

During the House’s Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology hearing on H.J. Resolution 37, Disapproving the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission with respect to regulating the Internet and broadband industry practices, Mr. Thomas DeReggi, owner of a small …

Torrenting Establishing It’s Own Free Market

NEWS By NICK R. BROWN16 YEARS AGO

I had the opportunity to read a paper by several professors at the University of Madrid, Darmstadt University of Technology, and the University of Oregon a few weeks back on the subject of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing often referred to …

National Broadband Map Heavily Visited

NEWS By NICK R. BROWN16 YEARS AGO

The National Broadband Map was brought about by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration in order to research communities across the U.S. to help create a visualization of broadband availability.  The map launched within the last week and has seen a massive …

Internet As a Public Utility is Dumb

NEWS By NICK R. BROWN16 YEARS AGO

I recently ran into a blog article by Jonathan at WhoIsHostingThis.com which is a web hosting review site.  The article in question was calling for the Internet as we know it to become a public utility.  This is a meme that crops …

Free Market Solution to Video Game “Hate Speech”

NEWS By NICK R. BROWN16 YEARS AGO

I would think that most of us would agree that there are certain less than acceptable ways of talking in the public square.  Now even less than acceptable language, even that of the coined “hate speech” variety of communication is still protected …

Three Concerns on Facebook’s Coming Comment System

NEWS By NICK R. BROWN16 YEARS AGO

Athima Chansanchai has an expanded report on CNET’s Caroline McCarthy’s story on Facebooks move to take over the Internets commenting systems.  The new product will be a heavy weight competitor to Disqus, Echo, and Intense Debate commenting systems that are used by …

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