Tom Giovanetti is president of the Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI), a 38-year-old conservative, free-market public policy “think tank” based in Dallas, Texas.
In addition to his administrative and fundraising duties, Tom writes for IPI and for leading publications on a variety of policy topics including tax policy, economic growth, self-government, civil liberties and constitutional protections, judicial supremacy, intellectual property, Social Security personal accounts, technology and Internet policy, and government spending. In addition to being regularly published in major outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times, FoxNews.com and The Dallas Morning News, Tom writes often for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Tom frequently appears in the media and is a regular guest and occasional substitute host of the Mark Davis Show in the Dallas-Fort Worth market.
Tom loves thinking out-of-the-box to design novel solutions to policy problems and explaining complicated policy issues in ways average folks can understand.
Tom's mission at IPI is to use issues to teach conservative, free market thinking and to push back against unprincipled populism. He seeks to encourage continued skepticism of Big Government, to maintain faith in markets, and to defend individual liberty as the best means of achieving human flourishing. His most recent work has focused on free market solutions to student loan debt, preserving online freedom, and persuading state legislatures to override local and municipal rules that restrict economic liberty.
Mr. Giovanetti has represented IPI at many national and international organizations, including the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the Internet Governance Forum (IGF), and represented IPI during negotiations on the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement. Mr. Giovanetti is a popular speaker and writer and testifies before state and federal legislative committees on a variety of topics.
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Network Management: Should We Have a Smart or a Stupid Internet
As Congress and the FCC consider calls from activist groups demanding restrictions on how network companies manage their networks, they should begin with the understanding that Internet bandwidth, like everything else, is a scarce commodity and must be managed to give businesses and consumers the kind of speedy and robust Internet that we have all come to depend on—both now and in the future.
IPI Communications Policy Guide 2.0
This Guide to Communications Policy explains in plain language the issues and opportunities that policy makers face in considering the future of the U.S. communications industry. It supplies legislators otherwise at the mercy of regulatory jargon with the tools to make intelligent, principled decisions. The Guide reflects a nonpartisan but distinctly free-market approach that, if followed, will lead to investment, job creation, and new products and services for consumers.
Video Franchise Reform: Goals, Principles, and Lessons of Deregulation
Government franchising and licensing began in the 19th Century but today stands only for revenue retention and monopoly preservation, especially when the concept of a “natural monopoly” in communications is an obsolete concept. Given broad-ranging competition, the goals and guiding principles of telecom deregulation should be clear, including allowing the market to set prices, ending anticipatory regulation, and applying public policy in a neutral and non-discriminatory way.
Network Neutrality? Welcome to the Stupid Internet
Smart networks are better than stupid networks, and smart public policy is better than stupid public policy.
Testimony Before the Indiana Senate Regarding Telecom Deregulation
Testimony Before the FCC Regarding Video Franchise Reform
The New Anti-IP Bolsheviks
This is the transcript of a speech given by IPI president Tom Giovanetti on Intellectual Property (IP) at the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, DC Friday, February 10, 2006.
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