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- Sen. Wyden (and the WSJ) fall into Net neutrality misinformation trap
- Sen. Wyden and the WSJ fall into Net neutrality misinformation trapThe MarketIt is wise to keep goverment out of the Net. Let the market dictate policy. Neal SafersteinYou're surprised?Why should the good senator be any quicker about getting his facts straight about net neutrality than our illustrious president is/was...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-21
- Wyden: "toll-strewn info superhighway on way"
- Wyden: "toll-strewn info superhighway on way"CorruptionThe telecoms have obviously in my opinion corrupted our "lawmakers" to no end.The content providers will not stand for these schemes. Unless the telecoms are planning to take more money from us rather than the web portals we will see a huge fight over this....
- Discussion threads 2006-03-27
- Wyden: "toll-strewn info superhighway on way"
- A draft of a bill scheduled to be voted on next week by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and the Internet Subcommittee would specify that the Federal Communications Commission would not have the oversight authority to enact "net neutrality" legislation that would require telco broadband service providers...
- Blog posts 2006-03-27
- Wyden introduces Net Neutrality bill
- Rep. Ron Wyden pictured has introduced a net neutrality bill, the Internet Non-Discrimination Act of 2006, to stop cable companies, telcos and other pipe owners from offering some companies and users preferred access to their systems, the Times reports. "You best compete by letting every company play on...
- Blog posts 2006-03-02
- Senator Wyden describes his 'net neutrality' bill
- Senator Wyden describes his 'net neutrality' billThe first step......in enshrining Internet access as a Constitutional right. Which section or amendment covers Internet access?Carl RapsonProblem with proposed law?Section (2)C on page 10 says that a network operator "shall prevent any activity that is unlawful or illegal under Federal, State, or local...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-02
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- Blog posts 2008-04-28
- TIA 2.0: NSA conducts data sweeps and mining without oversight
- In a front-page piece on Monday, Siobhan Gorman of the Wall Street Journal argued that the NSA has been building, over the past several years, the same capability that was planned for Total Information Awareness. TIA was an "experimental Pentagon antiterrorism program meant to vacuum up electronic...
- Blog posts 2008-03-12
- Bush wants immunity for telcos that assisted in illegal searches
- With dozens of lawsuits against phone companies for cooperating with the Bush Adminisrations domestic spying operations, such as the Electronic Frontier Foundations suit against AT&T, President Bush is now asking Congress to give immunity to the phone companies, The Washington Post reports. Lots of luck getting that...
- Blog posts 2007-05-03
- Local govts struggle to stem tide of e-waste
- As mountains of electronic waste are filling up the nations landfills and creating environmental and health hazards, local government agencies are trying to keep up with the growing problem, reports the Washington Post. From televisions to cellphones, household "e-waste" is ending up in landfills, but a variety of local...
- Blog posts 2007-04-23
- Ban on monthly Net access taxes faces obstacles
- Ban on monthly Net access taxes faces obstaclesPowerful LobbyistsSenator Wyden blames the possible demise of a no-tax solution on powerful allies (or lobbyists.) That is unfortunately very far from the truth. The real truth is the demise will come from the powerful apathy-ists.There's enough citizens out there that...
- Discussion threads 2007-04-17
- Inouye amendment fails for net neutrality
- More details on net neutrality vote yesterday, from News.com. Failing the defeat of the Snowe-Dorgan amendment, Sen. Daniel Inouye, the top-ranking Democrat, offered a broader amendment, including not just Net neutrality language but also addressed video franchising and universal service. That lost 12-10. The full bill then passed the committee...
- Blog posts 2006-06-29
- Sen. Wyden falls into Net neutrality misinformation trap
- George Ou clearly thinks the dirt he keeps finding under the Craigslist/Net neutrality rug is amounting to a story that's stranger than fiction. To the extent that it's disturbing, it is indeed strange. But, from my point of view, it's business as usual. In case you've been missing...
- Blog posts 2006-06-21
- Craigslist scare story gets even stranger
- Craigslist scare story gets even strangerHas anyone tried emailing Craig?Craig@craigslist.orgI just sent him one from my work account. Hotmail and Gmail are so often blocked.Here is what I wrote.CraigFirst things first.Fix your first Ack packet so the window size isn't 0. That seems to create a problem for...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-20
- Craigslist scare story gets even stranger
- [Update: Now we have US Senator Wyden propagating the lie that this was a Cox conspiracy to block Craigslist because they have their own classified service. The following blog proves that this was never the case and the original myth was retracted]In my last blog about the lies being...
- Blog posts 2006-06-20
- Net neutrality proponents flagrantly lie about Craigslist blockage
- [Update: Now we have US Senator Wyden propagating the lie that this was a Cox conspiracy to block Craigslist because they have their own classified service. We now have proof and a retraction that this was never the case]It appears that the Net neutrality proponents have been caught in...
- Blog posts 2006-06-19
- Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see it
- Yesterday at the TelecomNext, the same AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre at right who has been calling the idea that his company does not have the right to charge extra carriage fees for high-bandwidth Web content "nuts," sounded like he's mellowed out."Any provider that blocks access to content is inviting...
- Blog posts 2006-03-22
- Senator: Net neutrality may not happen
- Senator: Net neutrality may not happenThe final solution...I keep seeing these bills and proposed bills to legislate the internet and it occures to me that the final solution will come when the US nationalizes the backbone and WiMAX replaces the existing connection paradigm.The only real question in my mind is...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-14
- Subsidizing the status quo Internet
- Jeffrey Young writes about the Internet Non-Discrimination Act of 2006--also known as the Net Neutrality Act:Are we in a new episode of The Prisoner? Is Patrick McGoohan about to walk through my browser? Hasn’t the socialist managed economy model been discredited enough already with the rise of the free...
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- Subsidizing the status quo Internet
- Are we in a new episode of The Prisoner? Is Patrick McGoohan about to walk through my browser? Hasn’t the socialist managed economy model been discredited enough already with the rise of the free for all scrum of the Internet?There’s an old saw that goes: “To a carpenter everything...
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- My analysis: what will the AT&T-BellSouth merger mean?
- That's AT&T CEO Ed Whitacre, superimposed on a Google Earth map of territory that for the most part,will fall under his company's domain if a blockbuster acquisition of BellSouth goes through.We have lots of details here, as well as my FAQ-style explanation and vision of what is going to...
- Blog posts 2006-03-05
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