Tech at Night: Safe Web Act, Samsung copycatting, Obama’s PROTECT IP/SOPA mastermind rides again [HTML fixed]
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 14th at 02:30 AM |
It’s clear that the Obama administration wants the Safe Web Act renewed, what with the big showy announcement over at ICE (though if ICE is going after “Copy Cats,” how long until Samsung gets nailed?). I’d want to look carefully though. We don’t have to just renew it. We can examine it and change it in any ways that make sense given the Obama administration’s | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Al Franken, Google, Net Neutrality, Copyright
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 21st at 02:55 AM |
I skipped Tech at Night on Friday because I was in Austin for the Red State Gathering 2010, but I’m back now, so here we go. We start off with what would have been the lead story on Friday, too: Net Neutrality hero and all around socialist gasbag Al Franken is now under a cloud of suspicion for ethics violations, violating Senate rules to spend | Read More »
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HDMI,
hypocrisy,
Internet,
Len Britton,
NBC Universal,
Net Neutrality,
Orrin Hatch,
Patrick Leahy,
Search,
Sony,
Steamboat Willie,
Tech at Night,
Third Way,
Title II Reclassification,
Verizon,
Viacom
Tech at Night: RIAA, DMCA, Viacom, Google, Gun Owners of America, Free Press
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 18th at 11:30 PM |
Good evening. A story I expect to hear more about is this a proposed subsidy for radio stations and the RIAA both of some sort of legal requirement for new cellular phones to include an FM radio receiver. Such a requirement would raise costs on everyone, lower innovation and even basic differentiation options, and be nothing but a detriment to anyone who shops for cellular | Read More »
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Oregon,
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