SOPA Stopped in House Until “Consensus” Reached
In the end, it was not necessarily the White House’s opposition as much as the pressure on House Republicans that has all but doomed anti-piracy legislation for the year. Darrell Issa, who along with...
View ArticleWikipedia Shutting Down to Protest Anti-Piracy Bills in Congress
Despite the fact that SOPA looks dead in the House, PIPA, the Senate’s version of anti-piracy legislation, hasn’t gone anywhere. It’s true that six Republicans wrote to Harry Reid asking for a...
View ArticleSOPA Strike Still Set for Tomorrow; More Websites Join
As I noted yesterday, organizers of the SOPA strike got a boost when Wikipedia said they would shut down operations tomorrow, in protest of anti-piracy legislation that could constrain their business....
View ArticleGoogle Joins SOPA Strike with Homepage Action
The biggest Internet presence in the world will have something to add to the growing online protests against anti-piracy legislation, though they won’t go as far as shutting down their operations....
View ArticleSOPA Strike: Thousands of Sites Go Dark to Protest Anti-Piracy Legislation
Wired is censored today. So is TBogg’s mini-site. The Google doodle is blacked out. And part of Daily Kos. And a lead story at The Huffington Post. And even right here. Sites like Wikipedia and Reddit...
View ArticleMarco Rubio, Former PIPA Co-Sponsor, Comes Out Against the Bill
The series of anti-SOPA activism going on today has already claimed an early victory. Marco Rubio, the Florida Senator and Tea Party favorite, dropped his support after being a co-sponsor of the bill....
View ArticleSOPA Activism Moves Republicans More Than Democrats
Yesterday’s SOPA strike was enormously successful, not only raising attention to the issue but moving a tremendous amount of politicians for a one-day event. Over 4.5 million people signed Google’s...
View ArticlePIPA Just a Few Votes From Defeat on Cloture
UPDATE: The update from this morning is that Harry Reid has postponed work on the bill. Go read that. We are very close to being able to predict a loss for the Protect IP Act, or PIPA, in next week’s...
View ArticleSOPA Also Dies; Anti-Piracy Push Languishes for Now
After the death of PIPA this morning comes the news that Lamar Smith, the Republican chair of the House Judiciary Committee who planned on resuming the markup of SOPA, the House version of anti-piracy...
View ArticleTwitter Allows for Censorship of Tweets in Individual Countries
I think we should definitely be concerned that Twitter is bowing to pressure and allowing for the censorship of tweets in individual foreign countries. Twitter has refined its technology so it can...
View ArticleFCC Net Neutrality Rule Passes; Franken Reacts
The FCC officially approved rules that reportedly provide net neutrality protections to wireline Internet but not wireless services, and which include a host of loopholes for both types of service. We...
View ArticleConservatives Freak Out, Progressives Angered by FCC Net Neutrality Rule
I want to co-sign to Chris Bowers’ argument that there is basically no constituency for the net neutrality rule approved by the FCC yesterday. Progressives see the rule and find it riddled with...
View ArticleFranken Assails FCC, DoJ Approval of Comcast-NBC Merger
Earlier today, the FCC and the Justice Department ruled in favor of the merger between Comcast and NBC Universal, creating one of the largest media conglomerates in the world and setting an unadvisable...
View ArticleVerizon Sues FCC Over Net Neutrality Plan
You can say that the entire goal of Julius Genachowski’s pretend plan for net neutrality was to devise something that the telecoms could live with, while allowing him to make a defense that the Obama...
View ArticleAT&T Moves to Tiered Pricing for Broadband
It begins: Starting May 2, AT&T will begin implementing monthly usage limits for its U-Verse and DSL users and charge $10 fees every time a customer exceeds the cap. According to Broadband Reports,...
View ArticleWhite House Threatens Veto of Resolution Overturning Net Neutrality Rules
The White House has issued a veto threat for any bill that seeks to overturn the net neutrality policy put in place by the FCC last year. This week, House Republicans will offer a “resolution of...
View ArticleWhy Does Justin Bieber Want to Jail Amy Klobuchar?
PROTECT IP Act Breaks The Internet from Fight for the Future on Vimeo. What are we to make of Justin Bieber exclaiming that Amy Klobuchar needs to be “locked up”? “That guy needs to be locked up,”...
View ArticleWyden Will Place Hold on Internet Censorship Legislation
Yesterday, the Senate rejected a resolution of disapproval that would have invalidated the FCC’s net neutrality regulations. Not one member of the Democratic caucus voted with Republicans to overturn...
View ArticleBroadband Companies Begin March to Usage-Based Billing
We’ve been waiting for this to come to pass, and it looks like the days of tiered broadband pricing are finally upon us: Here in South Texas, Time Warner Cable customers have been given the online...
View ArticleObama Shows Up on Reddit
President Obama took to Reddit today to participate in their popular “Ask Me Anything” feature. The question-and-answer session began at 4:30pm ET and quickly crashed the system, though it appears to...
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