After five years of bickering, the FCC passed an Open Internet Report & Order on a partisan 3-2 vote this week. The order is meant to guarantee that the Internet of the future will be just as free and open as the Internet of the past. Its success depends on how fast the Commission can … Continue reading “Has the FCC Created a Stone Too Heavy for It to Lift?”
Here’s a little speech I gave to members of the EU Parliament in Brussels on Oct. 14th. The cousins are contemplating a set of Internet access account regulations that would mandate a minimum QoS level and also ban most forms of stream discrimination. This explains why such rules are a bad (and utterly impractical) idea. … Continue reading “Regulation and the Internet”
While I was having fun demanding my own cables to everywhere, journalist Stephen Wellman of Information Week was making the same demand, for real: I hate arguments that we as consumers are supposed to feel sorry for carriers when users start absorbing more bandwidth. Sorry, Comcast (and other service providers), get more bandwidth. Cable MSOs … Continue reading “Demagogues Counterattack, Freedom Hangs in the Balance”
This is some very encouraging news: Technology Review, which jumps on the Web 3.0 bandwagon in its current issue, reports that Stanford’s Clean Slate Design for the Internet program will be holding a coming out party this Wednesday. The interdisciplinary program seems to take the end of “net neutrality” as a given. Its thrust, in … Continue reading “Toward an accountable Internet”
I’ve written dozens of posts on net neutrality since the debate started in the American media last spring, and yet another dozen on Internet regulation before the public debate started. Most of my recent writing has been reacting to press reports, political events, and other people’s blog posts, and it’s fairly hard to follow, I … Continue reading “Net Neutrality in summary”
Neutrinos are touting two new drooling videos on the regulations they’re trying pass, one that makes Telcos out to be space aliens and the other that makes them out to be parasites on the networks they’ve built. And they’re getting rave reviews from the confidence men who’ve conjured the net neutrality issue out of thin … Continue reading “Antidote to Neutrino Drool”
I did a Yahoo search for the movie Outfoxed for article below, and here’s what I got: Outfoxed on Yahoo! Movies Yahoo! Shortcut – About 1. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism Open this result in new window Documentary examining Fox News and its parent corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s FOX Network, examining what the movie calls … Continue reading “Yahoo’s Neutral Search Results”
Here are some of the highlights of today’s interrogation of Judge Roberts. First, we have questions from the illustrious Senator Kennedy: KENNEDY: The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights and equal rights are still the great unfinished business of America. … Continue reading “Roberts hearing transcript”
Amish Tech Support isn’t pleased with this year’s Bloggies, and neither am I, so let’s Boycott the Bloggies: So, what do I think? Well, first off, I think I should have just taken my nomination form, greased it with Vaseline, and shoved it up my ass for all the good it did. In a way, … Continue reading “Boycotting the Bloggies”
— Joanne Jacobs, bless her heart, has a very good book review in today’s Mercury News: Rage, not logic, fuels Dworkin’s feminism Andrea Dworkin would hate me. I’m not perpetually enraged at those child-raping, porn-peddling, woman-beating brutes (men), nor am I one of the childlike victims (women) looking to Dworkin for salvation. That leaves one … Continue reading “Traitor in the gender war”
