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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Anonymous,
Barack Obama,
Broadcasters,
Cable,
comcast,
Cybersecurity,
Darrell Issa,
Department of Justice,
Digital Bill of Rights,
digital libertarians,
Dish Network,
FCC,
FTC,
Harry Reid,
Jim DeMint,
John Boehner,
Lieberman-Collins,
LTE-Advanced,
Must Carry,
Privacy,
Retransmission Consent,
Spokeo,
Steve Scalise,
Telecommunications Act,
Verizon,
wireless
Tech at Night: Internet Sales Taxes are coming, Stuxnet justifies government action?, Spectrum crunch [HTML Fixed]
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 11th at 11:30 PM |
Why the Marketplace Fairness Act is looking inevitable: We’re up to about a third of all GOP governors backing it, and there’s a reasonable probability of a former GOP governor becoming President with an all Republican Congress. Broadening the tax base without actually raising taxes. It’s the Holy Grail for a conservative governor. I expect it’ll get done in 2013. Riddle me this: If the | Read More »
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comcast,
Cybersecurity,
Internet Bill of Rights,
Internet Sales Tax,
Interoperability,
Iran,
Marketplace Fairness Act,
National Sales Tax,
Sales tax,
Spectrum,
Stuxnet,
Verizon
Tech at Night: Privacy is unpopular, Leave Google alone, Apple app developers Union is silly
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 9th at 03:00 AM |
You want more proof that every single private industry privacy debate in DC is completely wrong headed? MSIE 10′s do not track default is unpopular. People don’t care. They value cheap/free stuff and convenience over privacy protection. Other countries are looking to tax American businesses online. Does Barack Obama have the guts to fight for us? Or will he bow once again?
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apple,
Apple App Developers Union,
Cybersecurity,
Dick Durbin,
Eric Cantor,
Harry Reid,
Internet,
John Boehner,
LightSquared,
Net Neutrality,
Privacy,
PROTECT IP,
Regulation,
SOPA,
Special Access,
Spectrum,
UN
Interview with Fred Campbell of CLIP
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 7th at 08:00 PM |
Previously in the Tech at Night series we saw CLIP, the Communications Liberty and Innovation Project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. A group talking tech with a slogan like “Liberty drives Innovation” is one that interests me. So now we have a brief email interview with Fred Campbell, Director of CLIP. Tech at Night: What are your biggest policy concerns today? Fred Campbell: The two | Read More »
Tech at Night: It’s time we got government out of the way of American innovation
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 7th at 02:30 AM |
Commerce. “The business of America is business.” Innovation online is growing business, and the most important takeaway you could ever get from Tech at Night is that we need to stay out of its way. BfA seems to agree. And some honest government action on spectrum could be a great start, but we probably won’t start down that road until after January 20, 2013 at | Read More »
Tech at Night: Government, not Facebook, is the real privacy threat, FCC lunacy on Spectrum.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 5th at 01:00 AM |
Privacy? You want privacy in the digital age? Start by repealing campaign finance laws before you wag your socialist finger at the private sector. Al Qaeda also denied 9/11 involvement at first, but we knew the truth. Also, how can Anonymous deny involvement in an attack when they claim to be unorganized? It’s these slipups that let us know the truth about them: they’re an | Read More »
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Anonymous,
campaign finance,
copyright,
Facebook,
FCC,
Google,
Green Party,
Internet,
LTE,
Mike Lee,
Net Neutrality,
Privacy,
reclassification,
Ron Wyden,
Roseanne Barr,
Spectrum,
Telecommunications Act,
Zoe Lofgren
Tech at Night: Pushing Obama to oppose China online, Microsoft to default Do Not Track?, EFF hypocrisy
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | June 2nd at 12:00 AM |
It’s funny how certain names come up again and again in this space. There are just certain Republicans who are becoming solid Tech leaders. Marsha Blackburn is one of them, pushing to force Barack Obama to take a stand against the Chinese online. Again, a Republican governor comes out for the sales tax compact, this time Governor Christie. The Marketplace Fairness Act I still say | Read More »
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apple,
China,
Chris Christie,
Chrome,
copyright,
Do Not Track,
eff,
FCC,
Google,
Internet,
Internet Sales Tax,
Marketplace Fairness Act,
Marsha Blackburn,
Microsoft,
MSIE,
Regulation,
Spectrum
Tech at Night: Steve Scalise on a roll, Privacy hypocrisy, We’re proven right on AT&T/T-Mobile
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 31st at 03:30 AM |
Gotta love it when Tech at Night is delayed because Comcast, despite telling me they’d auto-bill my card, choose not to do the auto-bill and instead just shuts off my Internet out of the blue. Lovely. So anyway, I’m unfortunately now low on time to create lengthy narratives, so we’ll do what we can. So, Steve Scalise, a rising tech star in the House, is | Read More »
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AT&T,
Barack Obama,
comcast,
Competition,
Cybersecurity,
Efficiency,
EU,
FCC,
Herb Kohl,
Internet,
LightSquared,
Privacy,
Regulation,
Spectrum,
Steve Scalise,
T-Mobile,
Transparency,
UN,
wireless
Let’s tax wealthy foundations the same way we tax wealthy individuals
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 29th at 08:00 PM |
Down with the 1%! End the social injustice of gross income inequality! Smash the unfair fruits of capitalist oppression, in which a wealthy few take care of well-connected allies, instead of circulating their money into the economy for the 99% to get to touch! It’s time we started taxing wealthy foundations at the same rate we tax wealthy individuals. Gates. Ford. Getty. Kellogg. Hewlett and | Read More »
Tech at Night: FCC impedes universal access; Obama and the UN both want to regulate the Internet
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 28th at 10:45 AM |
Memorial Day weekend brought little news, so Tech at Night will be quick tonight. Enjoy. It’s an argument we’ve all made, but it apparently still needs to be made: Market pressure is better than government at protecting people’s ability to get what they want. We can see this from the actual behavior of actual companies, and that’s just one reason that Net Neutrality and countless | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
comcast,
FCC,
Internet,
IP Neutrality,
IPv6,
Markets,
Net Neutrality,
Regulation,
UN,
Universal Access
Tech at Night: FCC reform, Protecting buggy whip makers, Spectrum, Democrat hacks website
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 26th at 04:00 AM |
Imagine if we’d banned automobiles because all the old business models that were destroyed by them got government protection. Imagine a government that unfairly killed innovation in order to give well-connected businessmen a leg up on upstart competition. That’s what big media outlets are asking for when they come after Dish Network’s innovative DVR service. And of course, given the Obama administration’s track record of | Read More »
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Barack Obama,
Broadcasters,
Cliff Stearns,
comcast,
Cybersecurity,
Dish Network,
FCC,
Felix Roque,
Google,
Innovation,
joe barton,
Mike Lee,
New Jersey,
Spectrum,
Steve Scalise,
Verizon
Tech at Night: Split decision in Google vs Oracle, Marketplace Fairness, Net Neutrality, Anonymous attacks Justice?
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 24th at 03:00 AM |
Quick hits night. Enjoy! Google beats Oracle on the matter of patent infringement in the big Java/Android case. So the only question left is how the copyright matters will be resolved. New York legislators want to censor the Internet? Come on guys, come on.
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Alabama,
Android,
AT&T,
Bandwidth,
Brian Sandoval,
Censorship,
Chuck Grassley,
copyright,
FCC,
George Soros,
Google,
Internet,
Internet Sales Tax,
Java,
Marketplace Fairness Act,
Motorola,
Motorola Mobility,
Net Neutrality,
Nevada,
New York,
Oracle,
Patent,
PATENT WARS,
Robert Bentley,
Sales tax,
Spectrum,
sprint,
Sprint Nextel,
Transparency,
Verizon
Tech at Night: Cybersecurity, Retransmission Consent, Challenging Mike Lee on Google Antitrust
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 22nd at 02:00 AM |
So, Cybersecurity. I’ve spent so much time talking about why the Lieberman-Collins Cybersecurity bill in the Senate is terrible, and anti-PROTECT IP champion Ron Wyden has taken up the opposition as well, but there is need for some enhanced ability of government to coordinate against and to attack Internet security threats. Here’s a Reddit post that should scare people about the kinds of ongoing criminal | Read More »
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Anonymous,
antitrust,
Chrome,
Cybersecurity,
EU,
FCC,
Google,
Herb Kohl,
La Raza,
Lieberman-Collins,
LightSquared,
Microsoft,
Mike Lee,
MSIE,
NAACP,
Net Neutrality,
Regulation,
Retransmission Consent,
Ron Wyden,
Wikileaks
Tech at Night: The left’s war on spectrum.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 19th at 03:02 AM |
The FCC and the radicals are at war with the secondary spectrum market. Gigi Sohn even tried to make the point at the Less Government debate that license holders don’t own spectrum. That’s true. They own the licenses. That’s where property rights come in. So it’s disappointing to see Democrats still piling on against Verizon even as the push begins to go after Dish. As | Read More »
Tech at Night: Pirate Bay DDoSed by copyright defenders? Net Neutrality continued. Issa takes on another treaty.
By: Neil Stevens (Diary) | May 17th at 12:30 AM |
Earlier we covered Microsoft’s new Pirate Pay, which I said sounded like a DoS attack against copyright infringers. Others agree and say it may be illegal, which is true. Sure enough, Pirate Bay is under DDoS attack. Has Pirate Pay gone rogue? Cybersecurity and copyright, all in one issue.
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ACTA,
Al Franken,
Android,
copyright,
Cybersecurity,
Darrell Issa,
Dish Network,
Google,
Java,
John McCain,
Microsoft,
Net Neutrality,
Oracle,
Pirate Bay,
Pirate Pay,
Ron Wyden,
SECURE IT,
SOPA,
Trans-Pacific Partnership
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