Tech at Night: I can’t spare Marsha Blackburn. She fights. Also: wireless competition rages on, Barton and Bono Mack take on Poker
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 20th at 03:55 AM |
Late start tonight for Tech at Night. Sorry, but I’ve started a plan to get myself out of California, and to be honest I’m more than a bit nervous about the whole thing. Looking for new work in the Obama economy? Yeah. But at least Marsha Blackburn wants to help the tech job situation by taking on Barack Obama’s twin regulatory nightmares of the FCC | Read More »
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AFL-CIO,
Apple,
Barack Obama,
C Spire,
Copyright,
DNS,
EPA,
FCC,
FTC,
Gambling,
George Soros,
Internet,
iPhone,
iPhone 4S,
Jobs,
Joe Barton,
Marsha Blackburn,
Mary Bono Mack,
PATENT WARS,
Patents,
Poker,
Property Rights,
PROTECT IP,
Public Knowledge,
Regulation,
Ron Wyden,
Samsung,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Subsidies,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Universal Service Fund,
Wireless
Tech at Night: Obama and Holder vs AT&T, CA tax corruption, Anonymous arrests are legion
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 3rd at 01:30 AM |
This is one of those weeks when all the important stuff happens at once, and there’s much to cover. I’ll start with the big national story. As I previously covered, The Eric Holder/Barack Obama Justice Department is coming after AT&T, using its own odd brand of economics to claim that the merger with T-Mobile would make the wireless market less competitive. When in fact, as | Read More »
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Amazon,
Amazon Tax,
Antitrust,
Astroturf,
AT&T,
Barack Obama,
California,
Clearwire,
Competition,
Craig McCaw,
Department of Justice,
Dick Durbin,
EPA,
Eric Holder,
FCC,
Free Press,
GST,
HST,
Internet Sales Tax,
Julius Genachowski,
Michael Copps,
Mignon Clyburn,
National Sales Tax,
R. Gerard Salemme,
Regulation,
Rick Perry,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Wikileaks,
Wireless
Tech at Night: Fighting an illegal tax in California, fighting unchecked regulation, and fighting the urge to regulate
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 30th at 01:00 AM |
As is usual, tonight I’ll give priority to the things we had posted at RedState, and mention those first. Especially My own post on the latest on the California Amazon Tax referendum, and more specifically on the plans of Democrats to nullify the constitutional referendum process, in service of their unconstitutional Internet sales tax. We need to pressure Republicans to vote the right away, at | Read More »
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4G,
Amazon Tax,
AT&T,
BART,
California,
Censorship,
Copyright,
DNS,
EPA,
Facebook,
FCC,
FTC,
Google,
Internet Sales Tax,
Larry Page,
LTE,
New Deal,
Privacy,
PROTECT IP,
Referendum,
Regulation,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Use Tax
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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Amazon,
Amazon Tax,
AT&T,
Clearwire,
Dick Durbin,
DMCA,
DRM,
EPA,
Eric Schmidt,
Free State Foundation,
FTC,
Google,
Greg Walden,
IIA,
Internet Sales Tax,
Internet Tax,
Interstate Commerce,
iPubSoft,
Lee Terry,
LightSquared,
Patents,
Regulation,
Ron Johnson,
Sales Tax,
Sprint,
T-Mobile,
Tech at Night,
Universal Access,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform
Tech at Night: Google, NLRB, FCC, Net Neutrality, Patents
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 8th at 12:07 AM |
Much to cover, and less time to cover it in! So many important things I don’t even know what to hit first. So, I’ll be biased and hit what I found out about from RedState. Google and the NLRB teamed up to promote unionization, with Google providing free ad space. That’s a problem for three reasons. First, the NLRB is supposed to be the impartial | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
Cap and Trade,
CCIA,
Congressional Review Act,
Copyright,
EPA,
FCC,
Fred Upton,
Google,
Greg Walden,
Harry Reid,
Internet Kill Switch,
James Risch,
Joe Lieberman,
Maria Cantwell,
Mike Crapo,
Net Neutrality,
NLRB,
Obamacare,
Patent,
Patent Reform Act,
Patents,
Patrick Leahy,
Playstation 3,
Rand Paul,
Regulation,
Sony,
Susan Collins,
Tech at Night,
Unions,
Washington Examiner
Tech at Night: FCC vs the Republicans
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 8th at 03:30 AM |
Ah, 1am. I spent a few hours this evening working on some math, and now suddenly it’s the middle of the night. So as I say all too often in this space, I’m going to make it quick. While Fred Upton and his committee arrangements are so important to our coming fights against the EPA, the FCC, and of course the coming Obamacare apparatus, it’s | Read More »
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Carbon Dioxide,
Congressional Review Act,
EPA,
FCC,
Fred Upton,
George Will,
Internet,
Internet Freedom Act,
Marsha Blackburn,
Net Neutrality,
Obamacare,
Tech at Night
Tech at Night: The New Year Begins
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 4th at 12:30 AM |
The New Year has started, and the Republicans are soon to start acting. Conservatives were mixed in reacting to Fred Upton’s words over the weekend. Some think he’s not tough enough when it comes to rolling back big government when it comes to the FCC, the EPA, and of course Obamacare. But I’m hopeful about him because he’s struck me as coming into his Chairmanship | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
Cable Internet,
Cable Television,
Darrell Issa,
EPA,
FCC,
Fred Upton,
Internet,
Nancy Pelosi,
Net Neutrality,
Tech at Night
Tech at Night: EPA, FCC, Fred Upton, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Tor
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 31st at 11:00 PM |
Some people stay up late on December 31. I don’t intend to, Friday and New Year’s Eve or not. Boring, yes, I know. But until I switch to decaf coffee my sleeping habits are going to be a wreck, so I’ll just have to ride it out. And that means I want to get going right away with tonight’s stories. Republicans are getting very loud | Read More »
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Anonymity,
Carbon Dioxide,
Chris Wallace,
EPA,
FCC,
Fox,
Fox News Channel,
Fred Upton,
Internet,
Kay Bailey Hutchison,
Michigan,
Net Neutrality,
Tech at Night,
Tor
Tech at Night: ALA, Wikipedia, Astroturf, Net Neutrality [updated]
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 30th at 01:00 AM |
Earlier this week I mentioned a story at Safe Libraries exposing American Library Association astroturf promoting the radical Free Press agenda on Net Neutrality. Now, the ALA does not come into this debate with clean hands. The ALA has taken stands before, notably to protect terrorists from being caught by the FBI. But now they’re getting aggressive. On the heels of this story about ALA | Read More »
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ALA,
Andrew McLaughlin,
Astroturf,
Barack Obama,
Carbon Dioxide,
Congressional Review Act,
Deborah Caldwell-Stone,
Detroit,
EPA,
FCC,
Fred Upton,
Free Press,
George Ou,
Global Warming,
Google,
Internet,
Kay Bailey Hutchison,
Net Neutrality,
Paid Prioritization,
Reason,
Tech at Night,
Tim Phillips,
Vint Cerf,
Wikipedia
Tech at Night: ADA on the Internet, Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 18th at 03:00 AM |
Good evening. I don’t know how I managed to do a Tech at Night on Friday night. Just barely I guess. Because I’ve been sick from Friday night on, though I was mostly alright today. And so we’re back in business. And we’ll start with a note on more Internet control that the Barack Obama administration is mulling. Yes, again, the content of webpages is | Read More »
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ADA,
Barack Obama,
CNBC,
Congress,
Darrell Issa,
EPA,
FCC,
Internet,
Jack Welch,
Net Neutrality,
NLRB,
Russia Today,
Seton Motley,
Tech at Night