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Mike O'Rielly
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01/14/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: The Absurdity of ‘Cookie’ Notifications
we have a massively popular commerce and research platform that routinely disrupts efficient outcomes in order to deliver gazillions of questionable cookie warnings. Can’t something be done to stop this silliness?
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12/10/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Telemedicine’s Stumbling Blocks
By its nature, telemedicine is disruptive to the traditional health care system. If obstacles and challenges cannot be resolved, to some degree, telemedicine will never reach its fullest potential for improving Americans’ overall health.
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11/12/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Senator Ernst is Right on the (Broadband) Money
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) should be applauded and supported for moving aggressively earlier this year to eliminate the Community Connect Grant program via the “Streamlining the Rural Broadband Act of 2025.”
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10/08/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: The Principle of Sufficiency? A Book Review
“The End of Telecoms History” provides readers with much to contemplate and has implications for the future of network construction, if the work is properly substantiated.
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09/10/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Giving Congress Its Due
Given the renewed attention on these authoritative lines after the proper demise of the Chevron Doctrine and other court actions, everyone involved in communications policy should consider Congress in its proper light and be willing to present extraterritorial ideas to the rightful place for dissection.
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08/13/2025
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Congressional Earmarks & Internet Access
After years in mothballs, Congress recently brought back the process of including earmarks within its appropriations process as a means to distribute funds to projects it deems worthy.