Tech at Night: All AT&T/T-Mobile, All the Time
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 13th at 03:30 AM |
Competition, growth, and innovation are all important for the American wireless Internet market. We need more, better, and cheaper service if we’re going to move in large numbers to wireless Internet, as some are predicting. This means competition and growth in the 4G sector is vital to our future economic health. And that, in a nutshell, is why I think it’s essential that the government | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Obama and Holder drop a bomb on jobs and competition, California tax battle continues
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | September 1st at 01:00 AM |
So much going on suddenly this week. Barack Obama and Eric Holder’s DoJ has decided to come after AT&T for its plans to merge with T-Mobile, possibly doing the bidding of donors while hindering jobs growth in America as well as nationwide 4G wireless Internet competition. Sprint’s not doing much to keep Verizon in check; we need AT&T to have the spectrum needed to do | Read More »
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The FTC’s Internet Kill Switch
By: Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Diary) | August 18th at 04:00 PM |
Bureaucrats at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are pursuing a heavy-handed regulatory approach to address vague concerns about consumers’ online privacy. They claim that privacy is threatened by a shadowy group of advertisers who are harvesting your data from behind the screen to sell you more stuff. While I don’t discount the agency’s good intentions to protect consumers, FTC activists have supported regulations that would | Read More »
Tech at Night: Progressive says we’re overregulated, Google draws more Neutrality regs, Dems compound failure
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 18th at 03:00 AM |
No really, Governor Haslam, you do not want to bring California taxation to Tennessee. Have you seen our unemployment? That’s why we just might defeat it at referendum. PETA people are hijacking phones, sending malicious messages without consent, and running up text message bills. People need to be careful about what they install, but this sort of thing needs to send people to jail, as | Read More »
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Tech at Night: A deregulated Internet creates jobs, Microsoft answers Google attacks, Lee and Cornyn speak up
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 6th at 03:00 AM |
The free market of Internet access, driven by constantly improving technology and heightening competition, is a driver of job creation and economic growth. Even Julius Genachowski, Obama’s FCC Chairman, has to admit that. This is just one reason we fight FCC power grabs. So when the government starts talking about new regulations in emerging fields such as “cloud computing”, just say no. And when Steve | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Radicals want free stuff, UK rejects its own PROTECT IP, FDT on Internet Sales Tax, FCC games
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | August 4th at 03:00 AM |
South Korea has Net Neutrality activists in an uproar as, guess what? The government is considering asking a high-bandwidth Internet service to pay its fair share for the government-subsidized Internet in the country. Just more proof that when the radicals say “Net Neutrality,” they really mean “free stuff paid for by the taxpayers.” The radical left’s push for freeloading continues in America too, as Public | Read More »
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Tech at Night: FCC, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Amazon
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 14th at 03:30 AM |
Sorry if you’ve been missing Tech at Night this week. Monday I just ran out of time as I had to do a whole bunch of housekeeping*, and tonight I’m running late. So let’s go. In classic Tech at Night style, let’s talk about the FCC. They took forever to get the ball rolling on Net Neutrality, but it’s coming now and it’s a vehicle | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Net Neutrality D-Day approaches, Communist-style PROTECT IP, Apple News
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | July 9th at 02:30 AM |
Friday, Friday, Friday. Black Friday? Net Neutrality rules have become one step closer to official as the FCC finally delivered something to the OMB after months of stalling. Verizon, MetroPCS, Virginia AG Ken Cuccinelli, and others ended up unable sue to throw out the illegal power grab until it’s published, so the longer the FCC waited, the longer everyone else had to wait to begin | Read More »
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Tech at Night: FCC puts ideology first, Lulzsec punks out, Conservatives like Mike Lee must help Google
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 28th at 02:00 AM |
And we truly are back. Friday night was a night off thanks to some maintenance at RedState. It was nice because I could rest on a Friday night… but it’s not so nice now when I have a whopping 20 Firefox windows to sort through tonight. So here we go. With so many big stories going on, it’s hard to pick which one to start | Read More »
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Tech at Night: Shoot the Hackers, Defeat the Patent Ripoff, Reform the FCC
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 23rd at 01:30 AM |
Can we just start shooting the hackers? It seems like it’s war on the Internet these days, and the more there is for me to cover, the more work it is churning out Tech at Night! Lulzsec denies the allies are in Baghdad the leader is arrested despite an earlier claim on Twitter that it was true. Anyway, Shame on the Daily Mail for trying | Read More »
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Tech at Night: SAFE Data act fiddles while online crime burns, Illegal CA Amazon Tax goes to the Governor
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 16th at 03:00 AM |
Even as Mary Bono Mack and Republicans fiddle with the pointless SAFE Data act that won’t actually do anything to prevent or even to deter online crime, the Internet burns with a string of further attacks. The Senate was hit twice, and the CIA was hit as well. I thought we were the party that likes to solve crime by putting the criminals in jail? | Read More »
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The California Amazon Tax violates Props 25 and 26
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 15th at 05:30 PM |
Don’t our elected officials have access to Ballotpedia? If the California Democrats did, they’d know that the Amazon Tax being taken up this afternoon in the legislature is unconstitutional under the state Constitution. And it’s not some old, obscure provision that’s violated either. It’s the brand-new Proposition 26, a constitutional amendment passed in November, that the tax violates. Put simply, Proposition 26 doesn’t let the | Read More »
Tech at Night: Hacker threats and arrests, we must defeat Patent Reform and the Texas Amazon Tax, Sprint’s spending exposed
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 13th at 11:30 PM |
The cyberterrorist groups Anonymous and its apparent splinter group Lulzsec are getting bold. The latter gang of criminals is attempting to blackmail the United States Government after attacking government networks, which is just insane and I hope will lead to mass arrests. While the former is attacking the Spanish government after arrests made there, and suffering further damage from mass arrests in Turkey. I hope | Read More »
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Texans: It’s time to take action against the Amazon / Internet Sales Tax
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 13th at 01:00 PM |
State governments are timid beasts. So often the country will refuse to move in a new policy direction unless one state jumps out ahead and acts first. In the past, California was often the dynamic frontrunner. Now, Texas is increasingly the example that other states ought to follow. When it comes to the Amazon Tax, or the plan to change the tax laws in Texas | Read More »
Tech at Night: Free Press under pressure, Cyberterrorists get arrested, Same old FCC
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 11th at 03:30 AM |
Free Press is getting the heat. It’s been exposed through FOIA that the far left front group was secretly coordinating media strategy with people at the FCC, including Commissioner Michael Copps. So when Copps makes a statement about media regulation, Free Press’s pet issue, I have to assume they wrote it for him. Media Reform is their code for nationalization of the press, after all. | Read More »
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