Laws beyond bad. As 2014 comes to a close, it is enveloped in red tape. From the
breakfast table to the night light, government regulators invaded nearly
every moment of our lives. Here’s our take on the 10 worst examples of
the past year: Number 10. Federal Censorship Commission: The Federal Communications Commission began considering a ... MORE
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Internet. Show all posts
James Gattuso & Diane Katz: 10 Worst Regulations Of 2014
Laws beyond bad. As 2014 comes to a close, it is enveloped in red tape. From the
breakfast table to the night light, government regulators invaded nearly
every moment of our lives. Here’s our take on the 10 worst examples of
the past year: Number 10. Federal Censorship Commission: The Federal Communications Commission began considering a ... MOREMeasure To Tax Internet Sales Is Dead For A Year
by Sean Higgins. Legislation to tax Internet sales is dead for the year, a key Senate aide said. No bill allowing the taxation will be taken up before Congress' lame-duck session ends, meaning that purchases made through online merchants such as Amazon will continue to be tax-free for the foreseeable future. A coalition made up of state and ... MOREHow The NSA Tampers With US-Made Internet Routers
by Glenn Greenwald. For years, the US government loudly warned the world that Chinese routers and other internet devices pose a "threat" because they are built with backdoor surveillance functionality that gives the Chinese government the ability to spy on anyone using them. Yet what the NSA's documents show is that Americans have been ... MORE
Net Neutrality Compromises the Internet’s Future
by Donald Rieck and Wayne Winegarden. Perhaps President Obama envisions that the Internet is operated by Ernestine, the condescending telephone operator played by Lily Tomlin on Laugh-In. Otherwise, it is difficult to justify why he would want to hobble the 21st century broadband industry with regulations designed in the ... MOREIf You Like Your Internet, You Can Keep Your Internet
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 ... MORERegulating 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
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 ... MORERyan 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 ... MOREWhy 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 ... MORENicole 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 ... MOREBrent 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 ... MORERepublican 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 ... MOREJohn 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
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