Tech at Night: FCC costs us jobs, Cybersecurity threats real and imaginary, FISMA in the House
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | March 24th at 03:30 AM |
Ah, the FCC. If The FCC wanted to do incentive auctions to free up spectrum for wireless Internet, they could just do it. They wouldn’t need to set up a task force to talk about the National Broad band Plan to consider it, while instead getting involved in unrelated things like making its own security rules. We need FCC reform. Just say yes to Coase. | Read More »
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T-Mobile,
Yahoo
Tech at Night: We won a battle on SOPA; LightSquared heating up; OBAMA shows sense on privacy
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 17th at 02:30 AM |
Wednesday night I put off all Tech at Night topics except for SOPA because the critical mark up votes in Committee were coming up. We weren’t supposed to be able to stop SOPA, but we could at least raise awareness, put up a fight, and prepare for the floor votes. And sure enough, the vote to keep the Internet censorship provisions went in favor of | Read More »
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Jason Chaffetz,
Julius Genachowski,
Lamar Smith,
LightSquared,
Michelle Obama,
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Sanjiv Ahuja,
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