Tech at Night: Yes, I’m still going on about SOPA censorship, FCC, Spectrum, and Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 19th at 03:30 AM |
Some government mistakes slip by with only a few of us shouting about them. The Stop Online [Piracy] Act, or SOPA, is not one of those. People across the Internet are getting loud against the House bill and its Senate counterpart PROTECT IP, the one I’ve been yelling about for months, but many businesses are supporting. Yes, I’m going to be that guy, saying I | Read More »
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Censorship,
Chuck Grassley,
Civil Defense,
Cybersecurity,
D Block,
Darrell Issa,
FCC,
First Reponders,
Incentive Auctions,
Internet,
Lee Terry,
LightSquared,
Patrick Leahy,
PROTECT IP,
RIAA,
Rick Boucher,
SOPA,
Spectrum,
Supercommittee,
Tech at Night,
UIGEA,
Wireless
Tech at Night: Rage against terrible, big government priorities in DC, Extrajudicial Internet seizures coming, Lightsquared vs GPS
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | October 13th at 03:00 AM |
Oh for crying out loud. For all that Washington talks tough about getting Americans access to high speed Internet, the “supercommittee” wants to tax new spectrum licensees. That’s just what we need: make it more expensive to build out America’s wireless infrastructure in order to pay for the President and his Cabinet to hand out money to their friends and political supporters. Isn’t that special? | Read More »
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4G,
Al Franken,
America's Broadband Connectivity Plan,
Amy Klobuchar,
Apple,
AT&T,
Barack Obama,
Blackberry,
Budget,
CDMA,
Censorship,
Competition,
Copyright,
Cybersecurity,
Democrats,
Eric Schmidt,
Google,
GPS,
GSM,
iCloud,
IIA,
Internet,
iOS,
iPhone,
iPhone 4S,
LightSquared,
PROTECT IP,
Richard Blumenthal,
RIM,
Senate,
Spectrum,
Sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Supercommittee,
Taxes,
Universal Service Fund,
Universal Service Fund Reform,
Verisign,
Wireless