Christopher Leger

International trade agreements rarely make front page news, and even then only when the agreements are signed, binding the signatory countries to them. Because of this, the standard practice for negotiating these trade agreements is extraordinarily opaque due to press disinterest and the lack of the same open-government laws that many nations have regulating how [...]

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Recently, the House Energy and Commerce Committee and the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee held hearings on current and planned ISP monitoring and shaping of their customer’s web traffic. These hearings got very little news coverage, save a few tech-oriented writers. These hearings were quite interesting, with many Congressmen from both parties expressing incredulity [...]

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