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June 01, 2005
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Gatekeeping on Mobile Phones
TV Week (reg. req.) discusses the manuevering various television companies are engaged in so that they will be prominently displayed on mobile phone videoscreens (Providers Jockey for Mobile Slots: Preferred Positions on Cellphone Menus Will Go to Earliest Players). This is a prime example of gatekeeping. Why should it be that the cellphone carrier decides what and how data will be accessed? Why shouldn't cellphones be more like ISPs? ISPs may provide a default homepage, but there is nothing stopping people from changing that homepage. Why shouldn't it be the same with cell phones? via lost remote
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Ernest Miller pursues research and writing on cyberlaw, intellectual property, and First Amendment issues. Mr. Miller attended the U.S. Naval Academy before attending Yale Law School, where he was president and co-founder of the Law and Technology Society, and founded the technology law and policy news site LawMeme. He is a fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
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