Tech at Night: SOPA and PROTECT IP in yet more trouble. We need to constrain the FCC.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 14th at 04:00 AM |
Some bills become unstoppable in the Congress. They pile up cosponsors, get leadership support, and cruise on through to easy passage. Not SOPA, or its original Senate version, PROTECT IP. They’re in trouble. While the left is fighting these bills with blackouts and protesting, our message is simpler: If you back SOPA or PROTECT IP, we will primary you. That matters. One guy who has | Read More »
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Blackouts,
Chuck Grassley,
Competition,
Erick Erickson,
FCC,
Google,
Lamar Smith,
Marsha Blackburn,
NFL,
Orrin Hatch,
Oversight,
Patrick Leahy,
PROTECT IP,
SOPA,
Spectrum,
Tech at Night,
Twitter
Tech at Night: Amazon punishes CA, More on the FCC’s ideological lies, Marsha Blackburn: Tech Hero
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 30th at 02:00 AM |
Amazon’s not kidding one bit about punishing states that attempt to punish it. After Amazon sent a last ditch warning to Associates that all California Associates would be terminated in the event Governor Brown signed the budget with the Amazon Tax in it, the Governor went ahead and did it. So, every Amazon Associate in California just got terminated, including countless small businesses scraping by | Read More »
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4chan,
Amazon Tax,
Anonymous,
Antisec,
ARRA,
Astroturf,
AT&T,
Barack Obama,
Blackouts,
California,
Clearwire,
Competition,
Cybersecurity,
Democrats,
Facebook,
Fairness Doctrine,
FCC,
George Soros,
Google,
Internet Sales Tax,
Jerry Brown,
Lulzsec,
Marsha Blackburn,
Net Neutrality,
NFL,
PIGs,
Porkulus,
Republicans,
Skype,
Spectrum,
Sports Broadcasting Act,
Sprint,
Tech at Night,
Unemployment,
Wireless
Tech at Night: Net Neutrality reactions continue, ALA, Copyright, Trademark, the new Madden Curse
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 28th at 02:00 AM |
Tech at Night took Christmas off (in fact I even decided not to bother to put up a post saying I was taking Christmas off), so I have some catch up to do. Looks like nine links tonight, so let’s start. Jack Shafer at Slate of all places has made fun of Net Neutrality by detailing what might have happened had the FCC regulated information | Read More »
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ALA,
Comcast,
Electronic Arts,
FCC,
Free Press,
Internet,
Madden,
Marc Andreessen,
NBC Universal,
Net Neutrality,
NFL,
Slate,
Tech at Night
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