Tech at Night: Republicans to try to fix Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity bill
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 28th at 12:30 AM |
Senate Republicans have decided to take Harry Reid at his word that Republicans will have the opportunity to amend the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill. So, many Republicans voted for advancing the bill, which passed 84-11. And oh boy it needs amending. Who are you going to believe? For it is Barack Obama. Against have been Kay Bailey Hutchison, John McCain, Marco Rubio, Ron Johnson, Heritage, and | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Google, Microsoft, Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 12th at 03:30 AM |
In case you missed the great news Friday, Net Neutrality was repealed in the House. The resolution now must go to the Senate, where under the Congressional Review Act it cannot be filibustered, so it only needs 51 votes. And while I do hope that the House will follow up by attempting to repeal the redistributionist data roaming regulations passed last week, other work must | Read More »
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Reading the FOIA releases of the Andrew McLaughlin Emails II
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 16th at 09:43 PM |
Continuing from Part I, we are reading the emails of White House Deputy CTO Andrew McLaughlin to see if he’s been acting inappropriately as an agent of Google from his job working for the people. Despite close cooperation with Google “evangelist” Vint Cerf, McLaughlin laughably claims on September 4 that “I keep a very strict line between myself and Google (and Googlers).” Clearly he only | Read More »
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