Minority groups puncture the Net Neutrality balloon
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 12th at 11:05 PM |
The Democrat coalition may be fracturing more visibly along abortion lines in the Obamacare debate, but that’s not the only popcorn-friendly battle going on right now. ‘Minority’ groups are going after Net Neutrality now, and nobody is sparing the ‘race card.’ The leaders of the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, National Organization of Black Elected Legislative Women, The National Black Caucus of Local Elected | Read More »
Google and Obama, Sitting in a Tree…
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 29th at 08:23 PM |
…plotting to pass Net Neutrality. I’ve written in this space for a while about who the real Astroturfers are in the Net Neutrality fight. Google – and its puppets like Free Press – are promoting this idea that it’s a struggle between big telecommunications firms, and the little guys. Except the little guys are actually bigger Internet firms. The corporations pressing for Net Neutrality are Fortune | Read More »
Act now against Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 19th at 10:56 PM |
The time is coming that the left is going to begin its drive for Single Payer Internet, and so the time has come for us to fight back. Finland is gradually nationalizing the Internet and declaring use of other people’s Internet hardware a “right,” and the left is cheering. Obama’s “Internet Czar” does not hide the left’s hopes for an end to freedom and markets | Read More »
Incestuous Coincidences Surround Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 9th at 12:09 AM |
I’m a conservative, so I have no problem with anyone using their rights to enter the public discourse, and I’m not allergic to corporations. So I when I call the latest from Google “astroturf”, I’m saying it purely to illustrate the hypocrisy of the left, because by their standard Google is becoming quite an installer of the fake grass roots. I find it entirely unfair | Read More »
The Real Net Neutrality Astroturfers
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 3rd at 08:00 PM |
The left is at it again. They know that in a straight-up battle of ideas, their socialist perversion of Net Neutrality could never win out. Nobody but the most blindly partisan supporters of Barack Obama wants a government takeover of the Internet, because everybody knows that when government takes something over, freedom in it tends to die. That is why Save The Internet is resorting | Read More »
Gallimaufry Open Thread
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 18th at 03:32 PM |
In honor of Fire Joe Morgan getting the band back together for a day, we bring you a gallimaufry Open Thread. Moe Lane was interviewed at Blogometer. Teaser: “Why, Moe? Why?” Google is not letting go of the Google Voice-to-iPhone Net Neutrality issue, having re-released an unredacted version of its letter to the FCC. It’s going to be delicious when T-Mobile USA bans Skype on | Read More »
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Google undermines the Internet [Updated]
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 23rd at 12:55 PM |
“Allowing broadband carriers to control what people see and do online would fundamentally undermine the principles that have made the Internet such a success” – Vint Cerf, Google Chief Internet Evangelist and Co-Developer of the Internet Protocol Updated at the bottom. Attention leftists: hypocrisy is not a failure to live up to one’s own ideals. Hypocrisy is a willful professing of a belief, that one that | Read More »
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ATR/CEI update on Internet access
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 5th at 11:59 AM |
The FCC is currently in the process of developing a National Broadband strategy. Being that this is under the Obama administration, this strategy is unlikely to be a sensible one. Early word suggests that the administration plans to take the Internet in this country and consolidate it into a single, centralized, government-run entity. ‘Competition’ will be allowed, but only under strict government controls and over | Read More »
Google greases the skids for the GDrive
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 30th at 03:10 PM |
Google is readying for what is possibly their most bandwidth-intensive Internet service yet: The Google Drive is reported to be a planned service to let people store all their data on Google’s servers, but access it all like a disk drive from their own home computers. Services like Youtube and Picasa already transfer large amounts of data, but the GDrive conceivably would mean the continuous, | Read More »
Google’s non-evil pose: Hand out, palm facing up
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 24th at 08:57 PM |
Google may be a name that evokes thoughts of flashy, new Internet technologies, or of a friendly relationship with the greater Internet community, but us critics have seen what they were up to all along. Just like any other industry titan, it takes what it can get, with government help when it must. What’s news, though, is that even the LA Times is taking notice: | Read More »