Reading the FOIA releases of the Andrew McLaughlin Emails I

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  June 15th at 10:21 PM  | 

Via InsideGoogle.com I’ve come across the Andrew McLaughlin emails released via FOIA requests (Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3). I’d meant to make a 5 part series of my reading through them for signs that McLaughlin was inappropriately acting as an agent of Google from his job as White House CTO (which is an accusation that Darrell Issa is not letting drop quietly, internal | Read More »

Law and Order: Google’s Intent

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  June 11th at 12:03 PM  | 

It’s been a while since we peeked in at Google’s doings. The proud champion of unprecedented FCC power grabs toward Net Neutrality regulation of the Internet (for which opposition is growing in the Senate) is still under fire for two broad breaches of the public’s trust: The Andrew McLaughlin lobbying from the White House, and the massive privacy breaches in the Street View program.

We don’t even need ISP regulation

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  June 4th at 01:30 AM  | 

I’ve talked quite a bit how net neutrality is a big scam, and how it’s just a ruse to censor the Internet according to the desires of neo-Marxists like those at Free Press. But there’s another, more basic reason, to join the majority of the House (including 171 Republicans) in opposing the runaway FCC: People are happy with their ISPs, both landline and wireless. The | Read More »

Angle, Tarkanian overtake Lowden

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  June 3rd at 12:12 PM  | 

I keep saying that multiway races are volatile. When voters are spread out in more directions, the sums are smaller and it’s easier for big changes to happen. Suffolk University’s latest on the Nevada Senate primary for the Washington Times seems to be another example of this effect. Sue Lowden has gone from first to last, and Sharron Angle now leads.

Free Press goes all-in on censorship

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  June 1st at 12:03 PM  | 

It’s now out in the open: the Internet censors are on the march. The neo-Marxists at Free Press promised us that Net Neutrality had nothing to do with censorship. But as I’ve warned, once the FCC did their Title II Deem and Pass reclassification of ISPs as phone companies, in direct contravention of the Telecommunications Act, censorship was fully within their reach. Even as Republicans | Read More »

Google-backed FCC Censoring the Internet: Not a joke.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  May 27th at 02:45 PM  | 

I told you the FCC wanted to censor the Internet. They said it was a joke. Well, Reason kept digging and lookee what they found: Michael Copps, the FCC commissioner who would like to have jurisdiction over the entire Internet, wants to start a “national conversation” about the FCC enforcing either regulations or “voluntary codes” controlling content. It’s no wonder that even Democrats are scared | Read More »

Even Democrats are against FCC Deem and Pass [Updated]

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  May 24th at 11:19 PM  | 

When the FCC announced plans to declare that ISPs are no longer information services, but are instead phone companies, the FCC claimed the authority to regulate content and prices on Internet service nationwide. And no matter how many times the neo-Marxists at Free Press (and their front group Save the Internet) claim that Net Neutrality is all about “preserving an open Internet,” the FCC’s actions | Read More »

The FCC is looking to dictate outcomes in industry

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  May 22nd at 03:28 AM  | 

I’ve been saying it all along, that the FCC wants to dictate outcomes in its Net Neutrality power grab. They want to pick who wins and who loses in the market. Now the FCC’s own wireless competition report said it, per Reason: Page five of the report, for example, explains that its purpose is to provide “data that can form the basis for inquiries into | Read More »

Free Press = Astroturf. Greenish, plastic, rootless Astroturf.

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  May 22nd at 03:18 AM  | 

I hear that Free Press employees all have to see the New Orleans Saints’s old team doctor after one month on the job, because they all get turf toe by that point. But seriously, they really are. National Journal recently wrote them up (subscription only, unfortunately) but here’s what I think the key takeaway is about the neo-Marxist organization dedicated to the nationalization of all | Read More »

Americans for Prosperity comes out swinging on Net Neutrality

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  May 11th at 10:17 PM  | 

Americans for Prosperity, one of the Beltway area groups that really “gets it,” has come out hard against Net Neutrality and Title II classification of ISPs. They’re actually running television ads on the matter. What’s most interesting to me though is that their ad has three different versions. There’s the generic one above, but their YouTube Channel also shows up with two specialized ones: one | Read More »

The FCC grabs power unlawfully to appease a fringe movement

By: Neil Stevens (Diary)  |  May 5th at 09:31 PM  | 

I’ve been ill but please bear with me. Today brought some huge news for anyone who conducts business or pleasure on the Internet: The FCC has announced its plans to deem and pass Net Neutrality. Specifically, The FCC will defy a court order to stop regulating the Internet by nonsensically deeming the Internet not to be an information service, and regulate it under Title II | Read More »