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Brent Skorup

Research Fellow

Mercatus Center

Brent Skorup is a research fellow in the Technology Policy Program at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research topics include wireless policy, new media regulation, competition, and telecommunications.

He has authored pieces for law reviews, National Affairs, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, Wired, Reuters, and elsewhere. He has provided expert commentary for news outlets including C-SPAN, NPR, CBS, The Washington Post, Vox, and Buzzfeed.

Brent has a BA in economics from Wheaton College and a JD from the George Mason University School of Law. He was formerly the Director of Research at the Information Economy Project, a law and economics research center.

Blog Posts

How the FCC Is Using Title II Regulations to Justify Its Existence

April 4, 2016
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There’s a saying you sometimes hear about firms in Washington, DC: “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.” In other words, unless you make yourself a part of the legislative process by lobbying and cajoling politicians, others will change the rules of the game and make you an object of the regulatory mess. Unfortunately, technology companies may find themselves increasingly dragged into the regulatory fights they’ve long avoided. Until recently, the Internet was lightly regulated and most tech and gaming companies did not worry about the Federal Communications Commission,