Tech at Night: Kill SOPA, and even a Constitutional Internet Sales Tax is the wrong idea
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | January 7th at 03:00 AM |
Internet access is not a human right. It’s not me saying that, either. It’s Vint Cerf, Google’s Internet Evangelist. ESA May be backing SOPA, but we’re seeing developers themselves such as Curt Schilling’s 38 Studios come out against it. But support for the OPEN Act is growing, as it protects American rights without trying to censor the Internet or impose destructive burdens on Americans online. | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Kill SOPA. Now.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 24th at 02:15 AM |
Nothing in this post shall be construed to impose a belief that Lamar Smith would round up every American into MPAA-run detention centers if Chris Dodd suggested it would be good for big business. Does that sound like a stupid way to begin a post, and does it suggest that I’m about to say the opposite? Well, that’s how the Manager’s Amendment version of SOPA | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Free Press finally answers Blackburn, SOPA vs OPEN, FCC Reform
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 22nd at 03:30 AM |
It seems like forever ago that Marsha Blackburn challenged Free Press to transparency in the group’s funding. Why should it take eight months to respond if Free Press has nothing to hide? Keep the Web OPEN. It’s a simple statement, but it’s one I support. The difference between SOPA and OPEN has been made clear to many thanks to Darrell Issa’s leadership. It’s unclear with | Read More »
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Tech at Night: George Soros wins over AT&T, SOPA and PROTECT IP battle continues, FTC to take on Google?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 20th at 01:30 AM |
Top story tonight is of course the major win by the triple alliance of George Soros and his front groups like Public Knowledge, Sprint Nextel, and the Obama administration’s dual agency of the FCC and the DoJ. Yes, AT&T has given up on acquiring T-Mobile. I believe they will now have to pay a sizable fee to T-Mobile as compensation. This is bad news for | Read More »
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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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We must defeat SOPA: Tech at Night Special
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 15th at 03:30 AM |
Ordinarily I use Tech at Night to cover a variety of topics that come my way, and I have them in my queue for tonight. But with over 30 items to consider and integrate, most of them on SOPA, I’m shelving the rest for Friday, and discussing just one topic tonight: We must defeat SOPA in the House. It is entirely unacceptable, and I believe | Read More »
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Tech at Night: SOPA unconstitutional?, AT&T under pressure, Verizon’s try for Netflix next?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 13th at 03:00 AM |
It’s Monday, so it’s time for that weekly self promotion of mine. This week at the Daily Caller I discussed NISO, an information sharing proposal by Dan Lungren that would get government in a role of improving our security online without compromising liberty and innovation. And now back to SOPA. Now Eric Schmidt realizes we don’t want government to have a huge role online, complaining | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Spectrum Dishonesty at the Obama FCC, SOPA alternative emerges, AT&T Kulaks targeted further
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 10th at 02:30 AM |
There’s a new story developing. I’ve touched on it now and then, but the pieces are coming together. The FCC temporarily blocked the AT&T/Qualcomm deal to let AT&T buy spectrum using the excuse that they wanted to evaluate it together with the AT&T/T-Mobile deal. Well, the latter deal has been withdrawn from the FCC, so now what’s the hold up? It turns out that the | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Rural coalition questions John Deere on LightSquared; FCC, Obama, and SOPA picking winners and losers in industry
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 8th at 02:30 AM |
The FCC’s excuse for delaying the AT&T/Qualcomm spectrum deal was to work on the AT&T/T-Mobile deal. The latter has been withdrawn, so what’s the excuse now? AT&T and Sprint both get bad reviews. Sprint’s Nextel deal went through. AT&T’s T-Mobile deal is getting blocked. Hmm. Looks shady, which is why I support Chuck Grassley’s push for FCC transparency involving LightSquared, even though so far their | Read More »
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Tech at Night: We need Government Neutrality, not taking sides against AT&T, Facebook, Amazon; Grassley fights on for FCC transparency
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | December 1st at 02:00 AM |
Wouldn’t it be nice if we had Government Neutrality? Imagine if the government didn’t take sides: not favoring one industry over another as with SOPA, or favoring one firm over another as with AT&T. Because AT&T really is getting an unfair deal. The FCC could have just let the firm drop its application like it intended to do but no, it also gratuitously put out | Read More »
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Tech at Night: SOPA and PROTECT IP: Bad bills. FCC Subsidies march on.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 21st at 11:00 PM |
Had enough SOPA yet? Too bad. Ignore my Piracy/Privacy typo and read my overview of the issue over at the Daily Caller. In theory I will be there weekly now, writing about tech issues. Don’t worry though; I’ve scheduled it with them so I write for them and for Tech at Night on different nights, so I won’t burn out or anything. And if yu | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Yes, I’m still going on about SOPA censorship, FCC, Spectrum, and Net Neutrality
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 19th at 03:30 AM |
Some government mistakes slip by with only a few of us shouting about them. The Stop Online [Piracy] Act, or SOPA, is not one of those. People across the Internet are getting loud against the House bill and its Senate counterpart PROTECT IP, the one I’ve been yelling about for months, but many businesses are supporting. Yes, I’m going to be that guy, saying I | Read More »
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Tech at Night: No on SOPA, the selective Internet Kill Switch, Greg Walden and Adam Kinzinger take on the FCC
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 17th at 02:00 AM |
Welcome to Tech at Night, the series the radical left says is shaping the debate. I sure hope I am. After losing on Net Neutrality and on the America Invents Act, I’d like to get a win. The next chance for a win is in the House, which is debating SOPA, the bill that would create a national censorship blacklist online. Helping to lead the | Read More »
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Tech at Night: It is urgent that we stop SOPA; Google wising up?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 15th at 02:30 AM |
Censorship’s the big word right now. The FCC’s under pressure to ban pro sports blackouts, and the Supreme Court may end national profanity rules. However I consider those things small. Few people have access to television broadcasts. Most of us aren’t actually censored by these regulations. We all have access to the Internet though; that’s how a nobody like me is able to shape the | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Public Knowledge attacks me, Wireless subsides, Bad laws
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | November 12th at 03:30 AM |
It turns out it’s not just a few of us on the right who know Tech at Night exists. Gigi Sohn says Tech at Night shapes the debate along with good old Less Government. Of course, Sohn also told a lie about me and claimed AT&T pays me, but… that’s the head of a Soros-funded group for you. Media Marxists and all that. Something I | Read More »
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