Tech at Night: We need a pro-innovation FCC. We need fewer pro-regulation Republican Senators, too.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 14th at 12:00 AM |
Sorry for missing Tech at Night on Friday. After that near-miss with a cold, I decided to start the weekend a little early that night. But we’re back. So with five days of news to catch up on, let’s see what we have here.
Here’s a reminder of why Net Neutrality was a terrible idea. Making people pay for what they use creates opportunities for innovation. If ESPN wants to negotiate bulk rates for wireless data, let them!
And yet that John McCain would add more regulations. We need less micromanagement of cable, not more.
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Tech at Night: Lieberman-Collins is dangerously wrong, Republican Governors backing Sales Tax compact, new Internet policy alliances forming
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 26th at 02:15 AM |
Right now the top issues are both getting lots of attention in the Senate. One is the cybersecurity bill. It’s been difficult for me to find out much about what’s going on with it, and it turns out there’s a reason. Sources familiar with the situation indicate to me that Harry Reid has been negotiating with Republicans in bad faith. Even Republicans who love to | Read More »
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Marsha Blackburn,
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SECURE IT,
Steve Scalise,
Trans-Pacific Partnership,
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Tech at Night: The Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity bill is just that extreme
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 28th at 12:30 AM |
John McCain. Lisa Murkowski. Kay Bailey Hutchison. Saxby Chambliss. Richard Burr. Dan Coats. No, I’m not listing the centrist wing of the Senate Republicans. I’m listing some of the co-sponsors of SECURE IT, the bill that Senate Republicans have been forced to bring forth because the extremist Cybersecurity bill by Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins just couldn’t be bargained with. That’s right, John McCain of | Read More »
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Ron Johnson,
Ron Kirk,
SECURE IT,
Susan Collins,
Television,
Trans-Pacific Partnership
Tech at Night: Obama’s FCC transparency failure, video regulatory failure, Google censorship
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 18th at 10:30 PM |
Instead of the transparent Obama administration we were promised, from the Obama FCC, what we have here is failure to communicate. We need to continue to cut the FCC out of the loop, the old regulations are harmful when it comes to retransmission consent and the whole cable company/local broadcaster nexus. Clear it out, deregulate, restore the free market, and the public will benefit.
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Tech at Night: Retransmission Consent, Spectrum, Reid making threats on Cybersecurity
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 14th at 01:30 AM |
When Jim DeMint and Steve Scalise first started talking about reforming the regulated relationship between broadcasters and cable companies, oh the fits that were thrown. Even a certain conservative group jumped out in front complaining. But look: these regulations are worth big bucks to the side they favor, and the negotiation deadlocks they produce don’t help the public, they only force everyone to deal with | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Jim DeMint vs favored broadcasters, CISPA vs Lieberman-Collins
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | April 23rd at 11:45 PM |
What’s the ideal situation for the cable television marketplace? A free market. Cable providers should be able to negotiate, or not, with broadcasters and copyright holders to purchase streams to resell to their customers. Jim DeMint is trying to bring us closer to that by ending special leverage in the marketplace given to broadcasters. You see, the rules in place now are not designed to | Read More »
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Retransmission Consent,
SOPA,
Susan Collins,
Television
Tech at Night: Net Neutrality scheduled, Sprint admits the truth, Hutchison fights, Anonymous loses
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 24th at 03:30 AM |
November 20. That’s the day the Obama administration has chosen to regulate the Internet after what even The Hill calls “a partisan vote” at the FCC to pass the Net Neutrality regulations. I’m hoping Verizon and/or MetroPCS will sue and win a stay before that date, though I don’t know how likely that is for a court to act that strongly. I’ve said much about | Read More »
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Tech at Night: FCC, USDA, Net Neutrality, Competition
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 7th at 03:30 AM |
Hello. Yes, I’m late again. But I’m genuinely starting to have fun with OpenGL ES 2. So Tech at Night got to wait a bit. Sorry! Anyway, as I usually do when I have a link to a RedState article, I’ll start tonight with it. RedState Insider suggests cutting the budget while implementing better policy by eliminating the Agriculture Department’s venture into tech subsidy, the | Read More »
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4G,
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Andrew McLaughlin,
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Internet,
Julius Genachowski,
LTE,
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Net Neutrality,
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Satellite,
T-Mobile,
Television,
US Cellular,
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Tech at Night: Deregulation(!), Regulation, Cable TV
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 6th at 03:00 AM |
The new Congress is in session, and while some people are supremely interested in badmouthing the new Republican leadership, I’m more interested in trying to work with the Republicans to oppose the actual bad things being done by the Obama administration. I don’t have time to complain about past votes. Because guess what? Republicans who were previously bad under the Democrats can turn out good | Read More »
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James Rucker,
Local Community Radio Act,
LPFM,
Mary Bono Mack,
nbc universal,
Net Neutrality,
Netflix,
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