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Mike ORielly
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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—such as Kalshi and Polymarket—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.
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03/11/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Zero Out USDA’s Broadband Surplus
In light of progress in deploying BEAD funding and the network extensions to unserved Americans that will soon begin, USDA-related programs should be halted.
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02/11/2026
O’Rielly’s TMT Whiteboard: Communications ‘UnAffordability’ A False Narrative
The communications industry delivers enormous value to consumers; its story on pricing and capabilities meets or exceeds that of almost every other industry sector.
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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?