Tech at Night: Universal Service Fund, Dick Durbin’s new tax, Ron Johnson’s regulatory freeze
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 30th at 02:30 AM |
I’ve been warning for ages that Universal Service Fund reform was coming, and that it would end up as an Internet tax. Well here we go: Plans are afoot. Oddly enough though, people seem fine with the America’s Broadband Connectivity Plan, which so far seems to be a plan to redirect funding toward greater Internet access. Free State Foundation is fine with the plans so | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Google, Daily Kos, Australia, Nuclear Power, Fraud, DRM
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 19th at 02:00 AM |
Previously we covered Chris Bowers working over at Daily Kos on a linking scheme to manipulate Google’s search service. Now we come across a new attack on the company, a plan to manipulate click tracking the firm does to figure out what links are most interesting to its users. Of course, the Daily Kos folk want to smear Republicans using Google. Again, we look to | Read More »
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Tech at Night: DRM, Google, Wikileaks, Dingell, North Korea, Free Press
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 29th at 02:59 AM |
A key story from today centers on John Dingell and his criticism of Chairman Julius Genachowski and the Obama FCC. Hillicon Valley reports that Dingell is criticizing the Commission harshly for failing to justify its Title II Reclassification plans to Deem and Pass Net Neutrality regulation of the Internet, and is telling them to stop and let the Congress do its job. Seriously, this is | Read More »
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