Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll see in among the last several weeks’ dreck some Tweets skeptical of various themes about the Tea Party movement—chiefly that they’re significantly racist/xenophobic, or that they’re handmaidens of figures like Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. I may have been bending over backwards to resist attempts to define the [...]
From my undulating perch on an elliptical machine last night, I saw that CNN was broadcasting a strange roundtable event called “cyber.shockwave”—they occasionally displayed a subhead saying something like “you were warned.” It was a group of (mostly) former Bush Administration officials sitting around making their pitch that we should be frightened about yet another [...]
Over at TVNewsday, Harry A. Jessell writes: I don’t like the way the new FCC is shaping up. There’s something missing. My concern has nothing to do with Julius Genachowski, whom the president has reportedly tapped for chairman…. What I’m having trouble with are the names popping up for the Republican seat…. All [the rumored [...]
When the history books are finally written, I think it’s clear that outgoing FCC Chairman Kevin Martin will likely go down as one of — if not the – most aggressively pro-regulatory Republican chairman in the agency’s history. Despite his occasional claims of believing in free markets and his support for a couple of legitimately [...]
< p style=”text-align: left;”>In the beginning, there was Obamamania: < p style=”text-align: left;”>Then there was Palinmania: Poor Joe Biden. He gets fewer Google searches than that Jesus guy–whatever he‘s running for. Google Trends is a nifty proxy for measuring public interest in a very narrowly defined subject. The examples above show ”Search volume” (the total number of [...]
May 28, 2012
The Technology Liberation Front is the tech policy blog dedicated to keeping politicians' hands off the 'net and everything else related to technology.
