Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
Melissa Yu is the winner of first prize in the middle school category of C-SPAN’s StudentCam 2011 competition. Her video, “Net Neutrality: The Federal Government’s Role in Our Online Community,” is an eight-minute look at the push for regulation of Internet service with an emphasis appropriate for students on how the three branches of government [...]
Just FYI.. Tomorrow morning’s “Washington Journal” program on C-SPAN will be devoted to a discussion of the Federal Communications Commission’s new National Broadband Plan. I’ve been invited to appear on the show and I’ll be up against Art Brodsky of Public Knowledge. The program starts around 8:30 am EST. Also, here’s the link to the [...]
Brian Stelter of The New York Times reports today that “C-Span has uploaded virtually every minute of its video archives to the Internet”: The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits and politicians alike. The network will formally announce the completion [...]
C-SPAN is really quite incredible when you think about it. When I was growing up in the 70s, there was nothing like it. Like most other Americans, my informational inputs about national news and politics were limited to what a couple of old white dudes in bad suits delivered each night around 6:30 on the [...]
Are you a tech policy geek? Do you have a strange infatuation with nerdy communications, media, and Internet policy matters? Then you probably need to get out more and get a life. Then you should be watching C-Span’s outstanding program “The Communicators“! It’s a half-hour weekly program featuring a different guest expert (or 2) discussing [...]
February 13, 2012
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
