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- Senate, Web ad titans joust over behavioral targeting
- A U.S. Senate panel on Wednesday picked apart behavioral Web advertising as executives from the likes of Google, NebuAd and Facebook touted their privacy controls and even went as far as noting that ads are good for you. The hearing before the Senate Committee on Senate Committee...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web, Advertisement, Privacy, Internet Service Provider, Behavioral Targeting, Service Provider, U.S. Senate, Online Advertising, Internet Service, NebuAd, Privacy Law, Tom, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-09
- Jobs or air pollution--is this a false dicotomy?
- It looks like battles over the environment and global warming are likely to be central to the American political system for months, perhaps years, to come. Right now the punditocracy and the lobbyists on both sides are tossing rockets over a bill about global warming. The bill is...
- Tags: Job, Turbine, Pollution, Clean Technology, Global Warming, Bubble, Second,it, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-02
- Conference for media reform
- Free Press hosts the National Conference for Media Reform, June 6-8 in Minneapolis. From the press release: We're at an important point in the history of the media -- a point where the decentralized Internet and the centralized media are finally meeting head on," said...
- Tags: Media, Conference, Free Press, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- FCC gets 27,000 comments on neutrality, but how many will be tossed?
- The reply comment period on net neutrality regulations ended yesterday, and the FCC received roughly 27,000 comments, Ars Technica found. Among the all-too-typically Internet comments: "We will create chaos if they destroy net's neutrality" and the FCC can "kiss my ass." Another commentator told the agency, "This is rediculous sic."...
- Tags: Net neutrality
- Blog posts 2007-07-17
- Web 2.0 pay for play: payola, or transparency?
- We live in a world propelled by “spin” and driven by opaque, financially motivated relationship webs.From corporations motivated by profits, to not-for-profits with missions to “do good,” and from governments serving citizens, to universities at the service of research, activities occuring at organizations of all types, including Web 2.0 Social...
- Tags: hospital
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
- Net neutrality loses in Senate committee
- News.com's Anne Broache reports that the Senate Commerce Committee has defeated net neutrality by one vote. The amendment, offered by Sens. Olympia Snowe and Byron Dorgan, went down in an 11-11 tie; a majority vote in favor was required to pass it. The amendment would have prevented infrastructure providers...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, U.S. Senate
- Blog posts 2006-06-28
- Democratic state AGs speak up for net neutrality
- New York has entered the net neutrality fray, and California may be following quickly behind. NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sent a letter to US Senators, urging the passage of a net neutrality amendment introduced by Sens. Olympia Snowe and Byron Dorgan, News. com reports. The move marks the...
- Tags: Net Neutrality
- Blog posts 2006-06-26
- No action on Net Neutrality
- The first day of mark-up of the Senate's version of a new Telecom Bill ended after only two hours, with no decisions on Net Neutrality, News.com reports. Sen Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee vowed to hold firm on his "bill of rights" for consumers, which is...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Sen Ted Stevens
- Blog posts 2006-06-22
- Senate Commerce marking up telecom bill, Net Neutrality amendment
- As the Senate Commerce Committee marks up its giant Telecom Bill today, among the amendments the committee is likely to consider is the Internet Freedom Protection Act, an amendment to the bill offered by Sens. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND). Eight Democrats, including Dorgan, have signed onto the...
- Tags: amendment, U.S. Senate
- Blog posts 2006-06-22
- Stevens adds a bill of rights to telecom bill
- Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has added an "Internet Consumer Bill of Rights" to the Senate version of the Telecommunications Bill, which would allow the FCC to fine carriers for blocking access to a website or internet application, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. But Net Neutrality advocates don't think much...
- Tags: telecommunications, U.S. Senate
- Blog posts 2006-06-20
- Times editorial: Back strong net neutrality bill
- The New York Times editorialized this week in favor of a new Senate bill that legislates strong protection of net neutrality. If anyone in Washington cares about an Internet that is more diverse than one in which AT&T and Verizon make the rules, they should support the bill by...
- Tags: Internet
- Blog posts 2006-05-04
- Are you a pro- "Open Internet?" Libertarian or Republican? Better read this
- I try not to get overly political on these pages, but I feel the need to make an exception here.Reading my colleague Anne Broache's excellent coverage of Tuesday's net neutrality hearings before the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee, it is plain to see that those Committee Members who would prohibit...
- Tags: broadband, broadband Internet
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Senators grapple with Net neutrality
- Some highlights from News.com's coverage of the Senate hearings on Net neutrality: Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, said at the hearing that he plans to introduce a bill that "will make sure all information transmitted over broadband networks is made available on the same terms so...
- Tags: broadband, network
- Blog posts 2006-02-07
- Time for Internet taxes?
- Declan McCullagh reports on two bills in the Senate to impose taxes on e-commerce. From Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.) comes the Sales Tax Fairness and Simplification Act, which would "affect only shipments sent to participating states. If California joined the so-called compact, for instance, the bill would require Amazon to collect...
- Tags: tax
- Blog posts 2005-12-21
- If I lived here, I couldn't VoIP ya
- That's Blue Mountain, in Eastern Washington state. Proud to say I took the photo.But if I lived in the farmhouse just over the ridge, I wouldn't been able to call you via VoIP. That's because broadband access is just about absolutely necessary for VoIP, and broadband access is relatively scarce...
- Tags: Steven, broadband
- Blog posts 2005-08-17
- VOIP'ing The Vote
- Although I am non-partisan here, it would serve no useful purpose to ignore the fact that we vote for President tomorrow. Control of the Senate is also up for grabs. With that in mind, it is a fair question to explore how any transformation in the halls of governmental power...
- Tags: U.S. Senate, VoIP
- Blog posts 2004-11-01
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