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A big blow to the rights of consumers: A US federal appeals court has ruled that the FCC doesn’t have the authority to force broadband providers to treat all internet traffic equally, and that blocking or slowing certain services—say, BitTorrrent—for anti-competitive reasons is okay. FCC loses big in court’s Comcast ruling over Net Neutrality – [...]
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The President’s pubic rebuke of a Supreme Court decision was a rare moment, but should indicate the egregiousness of the court’s action: The core of the Citizens United decision said corporations have a First Amendment right to make independent expenditures in candidate elections. Only a constitutional amendment, which is exceedingly unlikely, could undo that core [...]
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The Supreme Court’s recent decision about corporate freedom of speech should be curdling your blood. Some even think free market capitalism champion Milton Friedman is rolling over in his grave because of it. Here’s what Harvard Business Review editorial director Justin Fox says about it: His point was that CEOs shouldn’t go around imposing their [...]
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Got an email from the Courage Campaign Institute that had a gem of an irony in it: Our lawyers rejected their ridiculous claims. They not only pointed out that parody is protected by the law and precedent, but noted the irony in Protect Marriage’s attempt to silence us: “While our client does appreciate the irony [...]
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The FBI collected more than 2,000 records on U.S. telephone calls by invoking terrorism emergencies that did not exist or by persuading phone companies to provide them, The Washington Post reported on Tuesday… FBI broke law in phone searches: report | Reuters
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I had a feeling that it was only a matter of time before China’s censorship policy came up against Google’s conscience (its motto is: “Don’t be evil.”) and the power of its ubiquity. Although the company did not accuse the Chinese government of being behind the hack attacks [on email accounts of human rights activists], [...]
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(Edited 2010-01-10 at 15:14:15) If intellectual property remains private forever, what happens to our culture? Songs, books and other artworks are protected for at least 70 years after the author’s death. Who is served by that law??? With the original author dead (and his or her children also!) who stands to benefit from ? The [...]
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