Tech at Night: FCC Budget battle ahead, Marketplace Fairness sales tax compact, Boo on Rick Santorum’s censorship
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 17th at 03:30 AM |
The FCC may yet get what’s coming to it. It’s been going out of its way to get headlines as it tries to pick winners and losers in industry, but now the attention is coming from the House as the Appropriations Committee will discuss the FCC’s budget. Prepare for hysterical shouting on the order of the SimCity 2000 Transportation advisor if the Republicans threaten to | Read More »
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Tech at Night: The Return. Also, we still need to kill SOPA.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 5th at 01:00 AM |
I’m back. I ended up taking an extended Christmas break because well, I liked having a break, plus there wasn’t a whole lot going on anyway. But, back to work! Lamar Smith and Chris Dodd still want to censor the Internet, by pushing the SOPA bill that we need to defeat. Why is it bad? Victims get no due process, ISPs have the burden of | Read More »
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