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Tech at Night: It is urgent that we stop SOPA; Google wising up?
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...
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Tech at Night: Yes, I’m still going on about SOPA censorship, FCC, Spectrum,...
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...
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We must defeat SOPA: Tech at Night Special
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...
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Tech at Night: Free Press finally answers Blackburn, SOPA vs OPEN, FCC Reform
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...
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Tech at Night: The Return. Also, we still need to kill SOPA.
I’m back. I ended up taking an extended Christmas break because well, I liked having a break, plus there wasn’t a whole lot going on anyway. But, back to work! Lamar Smith and Chris Dodd still want to...
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Tech at Night: Darrell Issa gets clever against SOPA, Internet Sales Tax looms
Lamar Smith, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is using his committee to further his bill, SOPA. SOPA is very bad. It threatens due process and prior restraint of speech as it censors the...
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Tech at Night: Kill SOPA, Control the FCC, LightSquared meets with FCC again
Have some more SOPA. We still need to kill the bill and primary the offenders, after all. The bill by Lamar Smith (with strong support from Chris Dodd) is a real problem. Forbes says it relies on...
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Tech at Night: Google to obey censorship laws, LightSquared and FCC team up...
Sometimes, the anarchists lose. Even in leftist Sweden, The Pirate Bay’s founders lost their last appeal. It’s guys like these, who deliberately put up a system for infringing on US copyrights while...
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Tech at Night: Opening up the OPEN Act, FCC spectrum insanity
Yes, we beat SOPA, but the problem of foreign infringers is still around. And we’re not just talking about online copyright infringement, either. Copies of clothing, purses, gadgets, you name it:...
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Tech at Night: The Return of the Revenge. Google Motorola deal approved....
Yup, I’m back. And I have roughly a week’s worth of stuff to cover, so let’s go. Top story seems to be that The Obama/Holder Justice Department has no problem with Google’s vertical integration...
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Tech at Night: Barack Obama covering for Lieberman-Collins power grab via...
In an example of lucky timing, the GSA scandal proved why Darrell Issa’s DATA act was needed. Transparency in government allows for oversight. So the bill passed the House by voice vote. I first...
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Tech at Night: CISPA opponents are vague, FCC overreach is constant
CISPA’s proponents bent over backward to respond to reasonable complaints, but the extremists are still complaining. Anonymous and Mozilla (much of which is foreign, no?) are whining, but nobody ever...
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Tech at Night: Split decision in Google vs Oracle, Marketplace Fairness, Net...
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...
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Tech at Night: The First Amendment shouldn’t prevent regulation of the Internet?
Hey, digital libertarians? Hope you’re ready to move on from Barack Obama, His administration thinks the First Amendment is an obstacle to greater government on the Internet, and not something that...
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Tech at Night: FCC gets it wrong by pushing an agenda in its 706 Report
So, the FCC put out another report (the “706 report”) that just pushes an agenda rather than reporting the true facts about high speed Internet in America. Commissioners McDowell and Pai tell it like...
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Tech at Night: No Cybersecurity Executive Order, Please. Or any new...
Look, 11,000 pages of regulations have been added under Barack Obama. Consider that the Federal Register only needed 71,000 pages total in 1975. These regulations are being added without transparency,...
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Tech at Night: Potentially promising FCC moves on Spectrum and the Spectrum...
Top story: the FCC is moving forward with spectrum auctions, providing incentives for television stations to auction off their spectrum for wireless Internet use. We could see the auctions completed...
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Tech at Night: Netflix proves me right on Net Neutrality. DoJ on Swartz.
Remember when they told you Net Neutrality was needed? Remember when we said it was really about favoring online firms over telecoms? Told you so, told you so, told you so. Netflix now blocking select...
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Tech at Night: What goes around, comes around for Sprint. Hey Chuck Grassley:...
Justice is impeding the Sprint/Softbank merger. Gee, whoever could have predicted that if Sprint funded the left-wing effort to embolden Obama administration action, then Sprint itself could suffer...
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Tech at Night, er, Sunday Morning: Stop blaming the victim and pass sensible...
I can’t agree with Jerry Brito on cybersecurity legisiation. That the President did the wrong thing, the wrong way, doesn’t mean we don’t need the right thing done the right way. It’s time we stopped...
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