F2C: Adam Thierer on media regulation

Adam D. Thierer, Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Digital Media Freedom is giving a talk on regulation of "speech" and expression in the media.

Scarcity is no longer a rational for regulating speech in the media.  Even the FCC has acknowledged this in a March 2005 paper. Yet there are numerous bills in the works to regulate on-line speech.

His particular issues are data retention (mandates that ISPs keep all data about customers and their activities for several years) and age verification (mandates that specific sites, probably including MySpace, must have an age verification process).  A thirty page paper is due out shortly...  I guess I need to check back in a month or so.