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As if the Christian Coalition, and Gun Owners support for Net neutrality would have made a difference

As if the Christian Coalition, and Gun Owners support for Net neutrality would have made a differenceIt's a bogus issueNo matter how many fringe political groups support so-called "net neutrality" the Snowe-Dorgan amendment is a disaster that didn't deserve a single vote, let alone 11.And BTW, "Gun Owners of...

Tags: Snowe-Dorgan, Gun Owners, Christian Coalition, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2006-06-29

As if the Christian Coalition, and Gun Owners support for Net neutrality would have made a difference

Yesterday was an absolutely rotten day for the concept of an open Internet free of roadblocks, slowdowns, under-the-hood obstacles to content from those content creators and services that won't submit to the broadband duopolists white hat be our content partner or black hat (stealth tweaks to deliver content partner- and...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Blog posts 2006-06-28

Christian Coalition in favor of net neutrality

Christian Coalition in favor of net neutralityProblem is that Net neutrality fans don't even know what they're supportinghttp://blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=244

Tags: Net Neutrality, Christian Coalition

Discussion threads 2006-06-11

Christian Coalition in favor of net neutrality

George Ou insinuates that net neutrality is basically a socialist attempt to subvert the free marketplace. I suppose if this were the Soviet Union, we would stop all the "inequities" so that we can all stand in line together for long periods of time while no one ever...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Christian Coalition

Blog posts 2006-06-08

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Will the Internet remain neutral?

Will the Internet remain neutral?Let the sheeple read their daily gossipbut for goodness sake don't stop us techie types from pushing the boundaries which creates new technologies.I think creation forces are as big as market forces in the internet arena. It's not like there's just this one product in the...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), market-force, censorship, Internet, Internet Service Provider

Discussion threads 2008-04-18

Will the Internet remain neutral?

Probably not. What Net Neutrality advocates forget is what has kept the Internet neutral so far has been market discipline, not government. Most customers want neutrality, and will "vote with their feet" against those carriers who violate it. Assuming, that is, they have a...

Tags: Comcast Corp., Internet Service Provider, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Internet, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-04-18

Advocacy groups in war of words over need to investigate Comcast's alleged BitTorrent throttling

Just a little while ago, I received an email from MoveOn.org, with their reaction to a letter that the Hands Off the Internet coalition sent to FCC Chair Kevin Martin on Wednesday, requesting that the regulatory body investigate Comcast's possible throttling of Bit Torrent traffic. First, to...

Tags: FCC, Censorship, BitTorrent, Comcast Corp., MoveOn.org, AT&T Corp., Internet, Federal Government, Government, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2007-11-09

Report: Islamic site finds Apple store offensive

Report: Islamic site finds Apple store offensiveAny muslims offended yet?The question is, would any muslims know they were supposed to be offended if MEMRI hadn't told them? If not, it's lucky they have MEMRI to tell them what to think.Does anyone get the feeling some people deliberately go around looking...

Tags: Web site development, MEMRI, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2006-10-11

Microsoft balks on Net neutrality explainer

Microsoft balks on Net neutrality explainerWar of Crime FamiliesNeukom's American Bar Association recently took on the Bush Administration, whoes frustration with Microsoft and Preston Gates and Ellis, two of Neukom's firms, must have reached terrorist level red owing to Abramoff. The Abramoff scandle destroyed Reed, the Bush family friend and...

Tags: Neukom, Abramoff, Microsoft Corp., Net neutrality explainer, Net Neutrality

Discussion threads 2006-07-26

I'm going to say this is a good thing

I'm going to say this is a good thingSplitting the revenueThe problem with your "split the revenue" comment is that the defendents already paid full retail for the films. They then cut them.From a copyright perspective, this is the direct equivalent of snipping from a newspaper, except that the...

Tags: movie, hacking, censorship, DO IT!

Discussion threads 2006-07-10

Net neutrality's feuding camps: engineers are from Mars..

I've been eagerly following the TrackBacks to my line in the sand piece on why we need net neutrality. More importantly, I have been closely monitoring the broader debate. Earlier today I was wondering why reasonable people can so starkly disagree- to the point that neither side believes the other...

Tags: Net Neutrality

Blog posts 2006-06-13

Lessig and McChesney: Save the Internet

Lawrence Lessig and Robert McChesney have penned an op-ed piece for today's Washington Post on net neutrality. The implications of permanently losing network neutrality could not be more serious. The current legislation, backed by companies such as AT&T, Verizon and Comcast, would allow the firms to create different...

Tags: Net Neutrality, Internet, U.S. Congress

Blog posts 2006-06-08

Antispam confab looks beyond filters

Antispam confab looks beyond filtersPatriot ActI don't know much about the Patriot Act but couldn't it be used to sniff out the spammers?Who's really making the money?I signed up for a free email account with *MAIL.COM* and immediately started receiving spam. I was just awe-struck! I never used that address...

Tags: Cyberthreats, Regulations, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, spam, anti-spam, USA PATRIOT Act, e-mail

Discussion threads 2006-03-28

Microsoft draws new fire for lobbyist ties

Microsoft draws new fire for lobbyist tiesIf you're surprised, you're an idiotWasn't it pretty inevitable? Microsoft had to go to the Bush administration to get all the leniency it could buy on antitrust action, and the Bush administration paid it off big time by essentially dropping any real further action...

Tags: RSS, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-04-26

Solicitor General, conservatives back Hollywood

Solicitor General, conservatives back HollywoodHere we go again.It's rather sad to see this same battle played out time and again. This battle has nothing to do with infringement -- it has everything to do with control. If the industry can't control the distribution channel, it must be destroyed.The threat to...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Digital music, Digital media, P2P, rampant copyright infringement, Solicitor General, massive copyright infringement, legitimate purpose, software

Discussion threads 2005-01-24

Major news sources for political information: TV (78%), newspapers (38%), radio (16%), Internet (15%), magazines (4%)

Pew Internet surveyed Americans on their primary sources of getting political news and information.Television is the primary news source for political information, but broadband users increasingly get their information online. Three-quarters of all Americans (78%) say television is a main source of campaign news. Some 38% of Americans say newspapers...

Tags: broadband user

Blog posts 2004-10-28

National IDs--politics as usual?

National IDs--politics as usual?Now why is it that REPUBLICANS...many of whomclaim to be pratirots and often even Christians seem bound and determined to A: Strip away our liberties and freedoms, and B: Do exactly what according to the BIBLE Satan wished to be done?Me I'm not a believer..but still aren't...

Tags: Dreier, National ID, 9/11 commission

Discussion threads 2004-10-04