Tech at Night: It is urgent that we stop SOPA; Google wising up?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 15th at 02:30 AM |
Censorship’s the big word right now. The FCC’s under pressure to ban pro sports blackouts, and the Supreme Court may end national profanity rules. However I consider those things small. Few people have access to television broadcasts. Most of us aren’t actually censored by these regulations. We all have access to the Internet though; that’s how a nobody like me is able to shape the | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Dangerous Internet censorship bill in the House, Spectrum crunch ideas, FCC subsidies advancing
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 27th at 01:00 AM |
Top story is easy to pick tonight. The legislation that’s been known in the Senate as PROTECT IP, the Internet censorship blacklist bill that promises to make a huge power grab online, Communist China-style, has come to the House. They’re calling it by two different names: E-PARASITES and Stopping Online Privacy Act, but by either name it’s just as bad. Even as the current laws | Read More »
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