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By Tom McLaughlin ~ Can you remember the last time you looked up something on the internet and didn’t find it? I can’t. There were times I had to approach my search using different key words, but I’ve always been able to find something, and usually way more than I thought there would be. Often […]
Australia’s National Broadband Network Could Double In Cost And Take 10 Years More
By Andrew Bolt ~ This should make you feel sick. The $37 billion the Gillard Government has bet on the NBN could soon seem small change: The $37 billion National Broadband Network could be delayed by up to 10 years, according to a senior Melbourne academic. On Thursday NBN Co … dropped its June 30 […]
United Nations Internet Power Grab vs Declaration of Internet Freedom
By Darlene Casella ~ A United Nations ability to restrict the access of American Internet users and bloggers would be in contravention of free speech rights, guaranteed in the First Amendment. However, the United Nations is not bound by the US Constitution. What role will American elected officials play in an Internet power grab by […]
Crovitz at the Wall Street Journal: Obama Was Wrong About Who Invented the Internet, Too
By Tom Blumer ~ While it’s nice that the 2000 election cycle made a fool out of Al Gore for his outrageous claim that “I took the initiative in creating the Internet” — which was in due course shortened by critics to a claim that he invented the Internet — it’s more than a little […]
Big Brother, the Internet, and Your Right of Privacy
By Alan Caruba ~ Most Americans assume that they have a right of privacy guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and, while several of the Bill of Rights imply this right, it is not specifically expressed. However, it is understood. In a Supreme Court case, Meyer v Nebraska, 1923, Justice McReynolds perhaps said it best: “While […]
Did You Know Homeland Security is Monitoring the Internet?
By Alan Caruba One of the lessons one learns in military basic training is “situational awareness”, a term that reflects the importance of watchfulness in combat. It can mean the difference between life and death. Police practice this as well, looking for people who seem out of place in a neighborhood. The average citizen blithely […]
The Incredible Scale of the Internet
By Paul Rosenzweig Sometimes my friends and colleagues wonder why I fixate on cybersecurity and the Internet. I tell them all the time that it is the single most important and misunderstood problem in the world today, but often I don’t think they understand the scale of the problem. So it was fascinating to see […]
The Unintended Consequences of Internet Regulation
By Rob Bluey Would you be outraged if the Department of Justice shut down The Foundry without any warning and blocked access for more than a year? That’s exactly what happened to a hip-hop blog called Dajaz1.com, which was falsely accused of criminal copyright infringement. The blog posted music from artists promoting their work. But […]
Hutchison: Measure to Block Internet Regulation Is a Jobs Bill
By Lachlan Markay The Senate is slated to take up a resolution of disapproval next week that would prevent the Federal Communications Commission from regulating the Internet. With the economy still dominating the national political agenda, Senate Republicans are pointing to the measure’s expected impact on job growth. Net Neutrality regulations, explained Sen. Kay Bailey […]
Australia’s National Broadband Network Is The “Most Extreme” In The World
By Andrew Bolt Either the Gillard Government is the smartest in the world, or the rest of the world wouldn’t make the same mistake: Labor’s national broadband network (NBN) strategy has been branded the “most extreme” example of government intervention in high speed broadband planning in the world. A report by the UK-based Economist Intelligence […]
The Miracle of iCapitalism
By Michelle Malkin Here is your high-resolution teachable moment of the week: anti-capitalist, anti-corporate extremists of “Occupy Wall Street” mourning Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs without a trace of irony. While the Kamp Alinsky Kids ditch school to moan about their massive student debt, parade around in zombie costumes and whine about evil corporations over […]
At AP, It’s ‘LightWhat’?
By Tom Blumer So I figure that I need to catch up on the LightSquared saga. This is the company which, as Fox News reported on Thursday (the URL date is September 15, though the time stamp is the next day) is building “a nationwide, next-generation, 4G phone network.” The problem is, as Fox further noted, […]
LightSquared: Obama’s Dangerous Broadband Boondoggle
By Michelle Malkin If you thought the half-billion-dollar, stimulus-funded Solyndra solar company bust was a taxpayer nightmare, just wait. If you thought the botched Fast and Furious border gun-smuggling surveillance operation was a national security nightmare, hold on. Right on the heels of those two blood-boilers comes yet another alleged pay-for-play racket from the most […]
Chinese Censors Tighten Grip on Internet
By Helle Dale Which country has the most Internet users? No, it is not the United States, as cyber connected as we are in this country. The correct answer is China, with 446 million users by the end of 2010, according to “Freedom on the Net: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media,” recently […]
Sports Sites Shut Down For Copyright Infringement Without Notice
By Wendy Davis - The Daily Online Examiner Last October, a Spanish appellate court ruled that sports site Rojadirecta didn’t infringe on copyright by offering links that allowed users to find streams of sporting events. That decision apparently didn’t carry much weight with the U.S. authorities. This week, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement seized Rojadirecta’s […]
If the FCC Had Regulated the Internet
By Conn Carroll The most common myth that appears in “net neutrality” debates, even ones that appear in our comment section, is that the internet needs regulation in order to stay “neutral.” In reality, the internet is as open and adaptive as it is because it has been free of government regulation. Slate’s Jake Shafer […]
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