Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
GamePolitics.com reports on a murder trial in Alabama in which the attorney for a disturbed teenager is blaming video games for his barbaric behavior: The lawyer for a man being tried for murder is trying to convince an Alabama jury that the defendant believed he was acting out a video game when he murdered an [...]
Despite the similarity in our names, I’m afraid we at TLF can’t take credit for the Billboard Liberation Front’s prank on AT&T. I’m normally a stickler for property rights, but I can’t get too worked up about this: AT&T initially downplayed its heroic efforts in the War on Terror, preferring to serve in silence behind [...]
I really enjoyed attending the Collective Intelligence FOO Camp, sponsored by Google and O’Reilly Media, last weekend. I’d been expecting a sort of geek slumber party, and had looked forward to rolling out my awesome Darth Vader impersonation. I was all set to cut loose with a growling, “I’m your father, Luke.” It didn’t quite [...]
This account of the FCC’s Boston meeting on Comcast’s network management policies, from Tom Giovannetti. Somewhere, there are more sophisticated arguments for net neutrality: The setting where a monopoly infrastructure business, in pursuit of its own ends, could take arbitrary steps that would ruin one business and make another succeed, were regarded as inimical to [...]
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School has just announced the formation of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force, and they were kind enough to ask me to serve as a member. According to the press release they sent out this morning: The Task Force will evaluate a broad range of [...]
As I mentioned way back in 2005, the specter of FCC content controls for cell phone and other mobile media devices is growing. And, according to this new Radio Ink report, it’s now under serious consideration at the FCC: FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate says the FCC is looking into how its indecency regulations could [...]
Dominance in the broadband market is a battle of both technology and politics. Right now Comcast, America’s leading cable company, is losing on both counts. Comcast Executive Vice President David Cohen emerged from the Federal Communications Commission’s hearing on Internet practices in Cambridge, Mass., as unable to defend himself and his company against charges of [...]
The Federal Communications Commission conducted a public hearing this week on network management before a group of law students – as opposed to, say, engineering students who are the ones who study network management – where lead witness Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) declared [T]he Internet is as much mine and yours as it is Verizon’s, [...]
Tom Bell–who I regarded as the the equivalent of my Jedi master in the mid-90s–suggested in a post earlier today that: “Copyright holders thus understandably fear that their customers have begun to treat expressive works like common property, free for all to use. That, the specter of copyism, does risk upsetting copyright policy, leading to [...]
May 16, 2012
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