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Mike ORielly
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09/09/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: ‘Fixing’ USF by Taxing Broadband is Lunacy
D.C. has a knack for creating policy zombies: no matter how often bad ideas are defeated, a determined few find ways to jolt them back to life.
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08/12/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Making a Troubled Broadband Program Worse?
If the Senate Farm Bill remains stalled, that may not be a complete setback if it prevents efforts to make ReConnect worse.
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07/08/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: A Tattered FCC Enforcement Process
For all intents and purposes, the FCC took a major hit this year.
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06/11/2026
O’Rielly: States Will Lose on Prediction Markets
For old tech policy veterans, the ongoing knife fight over how best to regulate prediction markets should trigger memories of near-identical struggles over states’ ability to call the shots in other contexts.
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05/13/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: In Defense of Data Centers
Unfair criticism is being leveled at AI data centers (and, indirectly, all of AI) by a collection of concerned citizens and select groups.
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04/08/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: USF’s Administration Problem
For the last few years, certain communications practitioners have been quite animated over the need to fix the FCC’s Universal Service Fund, focusing solely on the contributions side of the equation.