Tech at Night: Free Speech, Free Press, Net Neutrality, Louise Slaughter
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 13th at 03:00 AM |
Good evening. The Communication Workers of America are making a cowardly little statement in favor of Net Neutrality, as they simply must be team players even though they know the radical left’s agenda threatens to kill their own jobs, but for the most part the left still wants to move on from Net Neutrality. There are good reasons for that. First, one of our predictions | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, FCC, Science, Google
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 11th at 03:30 AM |
Net Neutrality (which Mike Wendy calls a “Private Property Slap-Down”) may not be any longer the top issue on the Obama administration’s side of things, but questions still remain. And the funny thing: all the Net Neutrality advocates in the world working in the White House were no big deal. But all of a sudden it’s a concern that a former AT&T President going to | Read More »
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Tech at Night,
Tevatron,
William Daley,
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WiSpy
Tech at Night: FCC vs the Republicans
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 8th at 03:30 AM |
Ah, 1am. I spent a few hours this evening working on some math, and now suddenly it’s the middle of the night. So as I say all too often in this space, I’m going to make it quick. While Fred Upton and his committee arrangements are so important to our coming fights against the EPA, the FCC, and of course the coming Obamacare apparatus, it’s | Read More »
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Marsha Blackburn,
Net Neutrality,
Obamacare,
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Tech at Night: The New Year Begins
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 4th at 12:30 AM |
The New Year has started, and the Republicans are soon to start acting. Conservatives were mixed in reacting to Fred Upton’s words over the weekend. Some think he’s not tough enough when it comes to rolling back big government when it comes to the FCC, the EPA, and of course Obamacare. But I’m hopeful about him because he’s struck me as coming into his Chairmanship | Read More »
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Darrell Issa,
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Nancy Pelosi,
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Tech at Night: EPA, FCC, Fred Upton, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Tor
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 31st at 11:00 PM |
Some people stay up late on December 31. I don’t intend to, Friday and New Year’s Eve or not. Boring, yes, I know. But until I switch to decaf coffee my sleeping habits are going to be a wreck, so I’ll just have to ride it out. And that means I want to get going right away with tonight’s stories. Republicans are getting very loud | Read More »
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Michigan,
Net Neutrality,
Tech at Night,
Tor
Tech at Night: ALA, Wikipedia, Astroturf, Net Neutrality [updated]
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 30th at 01:00 AM |
Earlier this week I mentioned a story at Safe Libraries exposing American Library Association astroturf promoting the radical Free Press agenda on Net Neutrality. Now, the ALA does not come into this debate with clean hands. The ALA has taken stands before, notably to protect terrorists from being caught by the FBI. But now they’re getting aggressive. On the heels of this story about ALA | Read More »
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Fred Upton,
Free Press,
George Ou,
Global Warming,
Google,
Internet,
Kay Bailey Hutchison,
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Paid Prioritization,
Reason,
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Tim Phillips,
Vint Cerf,
Wikipedia
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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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality Reactions
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 23rd at 03:00 AM |
Tech at Night is starting a little later tonight than I planned. I ended up showing my brother The Greatest American Hero on Netflix. Oddly enough I had no trouble with that despite the Net Neutrality framework not having taken effect. But yes, the big story is that the FCC voted to regulate the Internet. This has been coming for a long time, but now | Read More »
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Michelle Malkin,
National Review Online,
Net Neutrality,
Netflix,
Phil Kerpen,
Progressive Change Campaign Committee,
Richard Bennett,
Robert McDowell,
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Tech at Night: Tomorrow, Tomorrow
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 21st at 12:15 AM |
Tomorrow, tomorrow, the FCC is meeting tomorrow, December 21. The key item on the agenda is Net Neutrality. So of course, The FCC couldn’t keep its website up. And they want to regulate the entire Internet? What’s at stake? Socialist plans to remake all the mass media in America in the style of Hugo Chavez. Al Franken’s bulling tactics succeeding. And overall, an unprecedented power | Read More »
Tech at Night: Free Press, Net Neutrality, FCC, Google, Comcast, Amazon
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 18th at 03:00 AM |
Next week the FCC meets to make a decision on Net Neutrality. So there’s plenty going on as all sides press the FCC to do one thing or another. Some are lobbying more competently than others, though. Doing well are the Senate Republicans who prepare to fight and the incoming House Committee leadership who are getting loud on Net Neutrality and the runaway FCC. Doing | Read More »
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Hank Johnson,
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Media Access Project,
NBC Universal,
Net Neutrality,
Public Knowledge,
Republicans,
Richard Blumenthal,
Street View,
Tech at Night,
Universal Broadband Plan,
Vint Cerf,
WiSpy
Tech at Night: Free Press, FCC, Net Neutrality, Comcast, Level 3, OpenBSD, Wikileaks
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 16th at 03:00 AM |
Once upon a time I used to be sleep at midnight. Of course, if I’d buckle down and get Tech at Night out the door a few hours earlier, then I’d be able to be asleep right now at midnight, I suppose. Regardless, here we go. The FCC’s Net Neutrality vote is still on for the 21st, that is, Tuesday. Of course they’d miss the | Read More »
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Net Neutrality,
Netflix,
OpenBSD,
Peering,
Tech at Night,
Theo de Raadt,
Wikileaks
Tech at Night: You were expecting something other than Net Neutrality?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 14th at 03:00 AM |
Now that the FCC has made itself the center of attention by planning a big power grab online, it may be the case that the FCC gets some unwanted attention. The Free State Foundation is calling out the FCC for not being very open even as the FCC is calling for an Open Internet™. Here’s the punchline, but read the whole thing, and that’s not | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, Copyright, iPhone, Verizon
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 11th at 03:00 AM |
Happy Weekend. As I write this it’s already the 11th, so you have two shopping weeks left before Christmas. Oops, is it still legal on the Internet not to say Holiday? Some quick hits for the weekend as we continue to wait on the FCC to explain itself and its plans for radical new Internet regulation. George Ou points out that if Netflix gets to | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality, CREDO, Google, 4G Wireless
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 9th at 02:00 AM |
Oh boy, I’m tired tonight. It would be so tempting to give Tech at Night a pass tonight but I have clothes in the dryer anyway, so let’s go. Let’s talk about Net Neutrality. In fact, let’s talk about who’s funding the voices supporting Net Neutrality. Bob Parks of Black and Right and posting right here at RedState did some digging and found that CREDO | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality difficulties, more Level 3 v Comcast
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 7th at 03:30 AM |
I’ve been saying lately that the likely Net Neutrality outcome wouldn’t be bad at all, that we’d get a compromise that disappoints the radical left far more than it disappoints us. But it’s not a done deal. We’ve got to keep the pressure up, both as activists and through the incoming Republican majority in the House. The FCC must respect the 2010 elections and their | Read More »
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Peering,
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Tech at Night: The home stretch for Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 3rd at 11:30 PM |
Good evening. In case you missed it, I weighed in with great detail on the Level 3/Comcast/Netflix flap, getting down to the basics to unravel the issue technically. But tonight we discuss Net Neutrality. House Republican Reps. Cliff Stearns and Joe Barton fired a warning shot, challenging the FCC to justify any action it takes this month, so now that’s an issue getting some attention. | Read More »
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Search Neutrality,
Tech at Night,
Tim Wu
Tech at Night: Netflix, Comcast, Level 3, Peering, Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 2nd at 05:30 AM |
Just as I was saying copyright was soon to replace Net Neutrality as the big tech issue of the moment, circumstances prove me wrong. Instead, regardless of the results of the December FCC meeting and the future of that whole Net Neutrality debate (more later), the coming issue now is going to be peering. Some will play word games and say it’s all covered under | Read More »
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Verizon
Tech at Night: After Thanksgiving Catch Up Edition
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 30th at 01:15 AM |
Hello! The big story that we’ve been following with Tech at Night since the beginning has been Net Neutrality, but right now we’re still stuck waiting on this issue. Republicans aren’t going to act on it until January at the earliest, and we aren’t going to know what (if anything) the FCC will do on the issue in December until they tell us. So we | Read More »
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Sweden,
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Tech at Night: Thanksgiving Edition
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 25th at 04:04 AM |
Happy Thanksgiving. I’ll be very brief, because it’s Thanksgiving. The FCC is going to vote on the Internet takeover next month. Defying the law and the courts, the FCC will make a power grab, or at least will try to. There’s still time to get loud, get people informed, and get enough popular opposition to this thing going that the FCC might back off. I’m | Read More »
Tech at Night: The world waits
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 23rd at 03:00 AM |
Good night/morning. Yes, the world now waits on the FCC to see whether it will act to claim broad, unprecedented regulatory powers over the Internet, the pricing of services on it, as well as the content on it. Free Press is happy, of course, because that organization’s long-term goal is the total state control of all mass media. They recognize the FCC’s so-called Net Neutrality | Read More »
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Title II Reclassification