Tech at Night: A good old FCC roundup on Independence Day
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 5th at 12:00 AM |
It’s Independence Day, which was very nice for me since I kept on resting and feel just about healthy now. No Tech on Monday thanks to my cold that wiped me out since Sunday. Unfortunately Google decided today was the day to celebrate a song that, while American, was specifically designed to carry political meaning as well as to reply to the Christian and patriotic | Read More »
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Kim Dotcom,
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Tech at Night: Hitting the news through glitchy thunderstorm power
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 30th at 04:00 AM |
I hope nobody’s surprised that the Obama administration is stonewalling Darrell Issa from Trans-Pacific Partnership oversight. Because the President would love to get a power grab out of this, I’m thinking. In other House news, the Republican Study Committee is going Tech. Which is good; the less we have to rely on Democrats for good policy outcomes, the better. So I wish luck to Marsha | Read More »
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Philip Falcone,
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Retransmission Consent,
Robert McDowell,
South Carolina,
Steve Scalise,
Tech at Night,
Trans-Pacific Partnership,
Verizon
Tech at Night: The Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity bill is just that extreme
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 28th at 12:30 AM |
John McCain. Lisa Murkowski. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Saxby Chambliss. Richard Burr. Dan Coats. No, I’m not listing the centrist wing of the Senate Republicans. I’m listing some of the co-sponsors of SECURE IT, the bill that Senate Republicans have been forced to bring forth because the extremist Cybersecurity bill by Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins just couldn’t be bargained with. That’s right, John McCain of | Read More »
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Tech at Night: The First Amendment shouldn’t prevent regulation of the Internet?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 26th at 01:30 AM |
Hey, digital libertarians? Hope you’re ready to move on from Barack Obama, His administration thinks the First Amendment is an obstacle to greater government on the Internet, and not something that must be respected or protected by the courts when it gets in the way. This of course turns the First Amendment on its head. I guess in the Democrat parallel world Tim Wu and | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Free Press wants worse Internet for us, Public Knowledge is fine with global Internet regs, evaluating Cybersecurity laws
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 23rd at 03:57 AM |
Texas takes on Google as the state comes after the corporation on antitrust grounds. I’m not sure this is a good idea, any more than it was a good idea for the Clinton administration to go after Microsoft, but it’s probably even dumber for Google to obstruct the investigation.
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Tech at Night: How about stopping both global and national Internet regulation?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 21st at 12:30 AM |
WCITLeaks having some success, possibly, as WCIT itself starts talking about openness. When even pro-Internet-regulation folks oppose UN or ITU regulation of the Internet, it needs sunshine for public evaluation. Mary Bono Mack’s response is the right one: oppose all government meddling, not just the UN or ITU.
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Tech at Night: Obama’s FCC transparency failure, video regulatory failure, Google censorship
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 18th at 10:30 PM |
Instead of the transparent Obama administration we were promised, from the Obama FCC, what we have here is failure to communicate. We need to continue to cut the FCC out of the loop, the old regulations are harmful when it comes to retransmission consent and the whole cable company/local broadcaster nexus. Clear it out, deregulate, restore the free market, and the public will benefit.
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Tech at Night: Obama administration shuffles papers, Bad guys get rolled up
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 16th at 01:00 AM |
When I read the President’s Executive Order Accelerating Broadband Infrastructure Deployment, I’m reminded of the scene in Spaceballs when Dark Helmet tells the crew of Spaceball One “What are you preparing? You’re always preparing. Just go!” For the Obama administration to spend a year preparing whether or not to address a list of reforms, instead of just doing them, suggests to me the administration simply | Read More »
Tech at Night: Retransmission Consent, Spectrum, Reid making threats on Cybersecurity
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 14th at 01:30 AM |
When Jim DeMint and Steve Scalise first started talking about reforming the regulated relationship between broadcasters and cable companies, oh the fits that were thrown. Even a certain conservative group jumped out in front complaining. But look: these regulations are worth big bucks to the side they favor, and the negotiation deadlocks they produce don’t help the public, they only force everyone to deal with | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Internet Sales Taxes are coming, Stuxnet justifies government action?, Spectrum crunch [HTML Fixed]
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 11th at 11:30 PM |
Why the Marketplace Fairness Act is looking inevitable: We’re up to about a third of all GOP governors backing it, and there’s a reasonable probability of a former GOP governor becoming President with an all Republican Congress. Broadening the tax base without actually raising taxes. It’s the Holy Grail for a conservative governor. I expect it’ll get done in 2013. Riddle me this: If the | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Privacy is unpopular, Leave Google alone, Apple app developers Union is silly
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 9th at 03:00 AM |
You want more proof that every single private industry privacy debate in DC is completely wrong headed? MSIE 10′s do not track default is unpopular. People don’t care. They value cheap/free stuff and convenience over privacy protection. Other countries are looking to tax American businesses online. Does Barack Obama have the guts to fight for us? Or will he bow once again?
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Interview with Fred Campbell of CLIP
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 7th at 08:00 PM |
Previously in the Tech at Night series we saw CLIP, the Communications Liberty and Innovation Project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A group talking tech with a slogan like “Liberty drives Innovation” is one that interests me. So now we have a brief email interview with Fred Campbell, Director of CLIP. Tech at Night: What are your biggest policy concerns today? Fred Campbell: The two | Read More »
Tech at Night: It’s time we got government out of the way of American innovation
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 7th at 02:30 AM |
Commerce. “The business of America is business.” Innovation online is growing business, and the most important takeaway you could ever get from Tech at Night is that we need to stay out of its way. BfA seems to agree. And some honest government action on spectrum could be a great start, but we probably won’t start down that road until after January 20, 2013 at | Read More »
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Tax Pig: Loudoun County should reject the Metro Tax
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 5th at 03:21 AM |
Here in northern Virginia, there’s a huge local political issue right now. WMATA and MWAA, the DC-area transit and airport authorities want to extend the DC Metro train system out to Dulles Airport. That’s fine. It’s their prerogative. The problem is that the Beltway people want to make the people of Loudoun County pay for it. That’s the problem, and that’s why a pig was | Read More »
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Midway, The Forgotten Victory
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 5th at 02:14 AM |
By Daniel Foty. Reposted with Permission. When early June rolls around each year, June 6th is accorded a great deal of reverence for the well-known events of the Normandy landings of 1944. On the decadal anniversary years, there are major ceremonies and there is extensive news coverage. Sadly, an equally (at least) important anniversary on June 4th goes largely neglected. On June 4th 1942, an | Read More »
Tech at Night: Government, not Facebook, is the real privacy threat, FCC lunacy on Spectrum.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 5th at 01:00 AM |
Privacy? You want privacy in the digital age? Start by repealing campaign finance laws before you wag your socialist finger at the private sector. Al Qaeda also denied 9/11 involvement at first, but we knew the truth. Also, how can Anonymous deny involvement in an attack when they claim to be unorganized? It’s these slipups that let us know the truth about them: they’re an | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Pushing Obama to oppose China online, Microsoft to default Do Not Track?, EFF hypocrisy
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 2nd at 12:00 AM |
It’s funny how certain names come up again and again in this space. There are just certain Republicans who are becoming solid Tech leaders. Marsha Blackburn is one of them, pushing to force Barack Obama to take a stand against the Chinese online. Again, a Republican governor comes out for the sales tax compact, this time Governor Christie. The Marketplace Fairness Act I still say | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Steve Scalise on a roll, Privacy hypocrisy, We’re proven right on AT&T/T-Mobile
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 31st at 03:30 AM |
Gotta love it when Tech at Night is delayed because Comcast, despite telling me they’d auto-bill my card, choose not to do the auto-bill and instead just shuts off my Internet out of the blue. Lovely. So anyway, I’m unfortunately now low on time to create lengthy narratives, so we’ll do what we can. So, Steve Scalise, a rising tech star in the House, is | Read More »
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Let’s tax wealthy foundations the same way we tax wealthy individuals
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 29th at 08:00 PM |
Down with the 1%! End the social injustice of gross income inequality! Smash the unfair fruits of capitalist oppression, in which a wealthy few take care of well-connected allies, instead of circulating their money into the economy for the 99% to get to touch! It’s time we started taxing wealthy foundations at the same rate we tax wealthy individuals. Gates. Ford. Getty. Kellogg. Hewlett and | Read More »
Tech at Night: FCC impedes universal access; Obama and the UN both want to regulate the Internet
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 28th at 10:45 AM |
Memorial Day weekend brought little news, so Tech at Night will be quick tonight. Enjoy. It’s an argument we’ve all made, but it apparently still needs to be made: Market pressure is better than government at protecting people’s ability to get what they want. We can see this from the actual behavior of actual companies, and that’s just one reason that Net Neutrality and countless | Read More »
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