What Comcast and Time Warner paid Obama to do. The principle of net neutrality is easy to understand and support; to treat the delivery all data equally. This has been the status quo. Works great. Few oppose that, but supporting the principle of net neutrality is not the same thing as supporting the government's plan to enforce that ... MORE
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Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Regulating The Internet Hurts Entrepreneurial Freedom
by Ted Cruz. Never before has it been so easy to take an idea and turn it into a business. With a simple Internet connection, some ingenuity and a lot of hard work, anyone today can create a new service or app or start selling products nationwide. In the past, such a person would have to know the right people and be able to raise substantial start-up ... MORE
Net Neutrality: Toward a Stupid Internet
by Raymond C. Niles. The Internet is an achievement of historic importance, arguably rivaling or exceeding the invention of the printing press in its capacity to spread human knowledge and entertainment to the farthest corners of the globe. With the introduction of his printing press in 1450,1 Gutenberg took the books from the hands of ... MORE
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free market,
free press,
government,
Internet,
net neutrality,
online,
regulation,
technology
Reports Suggest FCC Poised To Regulate Internet
by John Gizzi. There has been mounting evidence in the last two weeks that the Internet, one of the last unregulated venues for communication, might well be headed for federal regulation. What makes the specter of Internet regulation (or "net neutrality," as its proponents prefer to call it) all the more ominous is that it might become ... MORE
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central planning,
control,
FCC,
government,
Internet,
net neutrality,
regulation,
rules,
tax
Ryan Gallagher: How the NSA Built Its Own Secret Google
The surveillance search engine. The National Security Agency is secretly providing data to nearly two dozen U.S. government agencies with a “Google-like” search engine built to share more than 850 billion records about phone calls, emails, cellphone locations, and internet chats, according to classified documents obtained by The ... MORE
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government,
Internet,
NSA,
phone calls,
police state,
privacy,
snooping,
spying,
surveillance
Why Government Should Never Control The Internet
by Robert M. McDowell. Tomorrow is the deadline for the public to comment on the Federal
Communications Commission’s (FCC) attempt to regulate the Internet under
the seemingly innocuous moniker of “net neutrality.” The architect of this movement, and the man who coined the term “net neutrality,” is Columbia law professor Tim Wu. ... MORE
J.D. Tucille: Americans Feel Less Free—And They're Right!
Government is the problem. Over the past eight years, the share of Americans
who feel satisfied with the amount of freedom in their lives has
plummeted from 91 percent to 79 percent, according to a Gallup
survey. That may explain earlier polling that found widespread
perception that the
government itself is the largest problem facing ... MORE
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economics,
freedom,
government,
individual liberty,
Internet,
snooping,
spying,
surveillance
Nicole Hensley: FBI Keeps Dictionary Of Internet Slang
To better track your children. You’re going to FP (face palm) when you see the FBI’s internal style guide for Internet slang. It’s more than 80 pages of definitions and acronyms — or “Twitter shorthand” — for obvious terms such as LOL and WTF. The document was acquired by the news site MuckRock
in its crusade for Freedom of Information ... MORE
Brent Skorup: Net Neutrality Nonsense
Ignore the scare tactics. In
January, for the second time in recent years, a
federal court told the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) that its net neutrality enforcement was
illegal, sending the agency back to the drawing board. On May 15,
the FCC proposed new rules.* Dozens of major news outlets have
trying to read the tea leaves, with ... MORE
Republican Internet Gambling Ban Undermines Rights
by Michelle Minton. Democrats aren't the only big government party. Despite rhetoric that we need to “restore” the Federal Wire Act in order to protect states’ rights, Republican lawmakers are pushing a bill that would do the exact opposite. The bills would rewrite a U.S. federal law instituted in 1961, creating a de facto ban on Internet ... MORE
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gambling,
GOP,
government,
individual liberty,
Internet,
prohibition,
regulation,
Republican
John Stossel: Privacy, Please
We can never tell government to butt out. Scarlett Johansson left nude photos of herself on her computer. A hacker grabbed them and sent them to gossip websites. A Pennsylvania high school issued laptop computers to students and then remotely activated the laptops' cameras to watch the students when they were away from school. ... MORE
Google, DuckDuckGo And Regulation Of Privacy
by Tim Worstall. This piece about DuckDuckGo rather interested me, for it speaks to the
argument that is being had over the regulation of privacy in both the US
and the European Union. And while this isn’t entirely and wholly true
it is in essence: the US has, in my opinion, taken the right view of
that regulation. Leave it, largely, to the ... MORE
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data mining,
free market,
individual liberty,
information,
Internet,
privacy,
search,
tracking
NSA Is 'Setting Fire To The Future Of The Internet'
by Ashe Schow. Newest revelation from Edward Snowden. Edward Snowden, the man who leaked the National Security Agency data collection programs, said Monday the act of mass surveillance is “setting fire to the future of the Internet.” Snowden, speaking via satellite feed (in front of a green-screen
display of the U.S. Constitution) to a ... MORE
Why Milton Friedman's Vision For A Bitcoin Was Accurate
by Victoria Wagner Ross. Bitcoin has had many supporters and many critics as it exploded in popularity and news over the past year. CoinDesk
has featured Milton Friedman’s predictions today about a decentralized
currency and how it will be part of the future in a global economy. Consider the numbers of 25,000 merchants now ... MORE
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Bitcoin,
currency,
economics,
free market,
inflation,
international,
Internet,
voluntary exchange
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