Today two FCC commissioners, Jonathan Adelstein and Michael Copps, refused to rubber stamp the DoJ’s unconditional approval of AT&T’s acquisition of BellSouth. This could be a landmark event. As FCC chairman Martin, who has never seen a consolidation he didn’t love, finds himself with a split board. Commissioners Martin and Tate are pushing hard to [...]
About a month ago an Illinois court found the Spamhaus Project– one of the premier open sources of spam blacklists – libel for $11M to a spammer — bargandepot.net, e360 Insight, and it’s clients. Spamhaus is a UK organization; therefore, they believed a state ruling in Illinois had no effect. On the 6th, however, the [...]
This week presented a great deal of news about our friends at the FCC. Fresh from their imbroglio surrounding a surpressed report showing that media consolidation adversely effected local news coverage, the FCC board, tenacious as ever, has issued an updated agenda for its meeting on October 12th; an agenda which is forecasting more bad [...]
I am way behind on a number of posts; but this little gem on the Senate committee for Commerce, Science, & Transportation website caught my eye today: Bipartisan Poll Shows the Majority of Americans Favor Video Choice Over Onerous Net Neutrality Regulations
The word ‘onerous’ really struck me — as I’ve never seen it applied to [...]
I am working on a number of open posts, but this annoyed me enough to open a quick window.
Harry Fuller, an editor at Cnet News, published an insipid editorial today regarding Stephen Colbert’s integration of television and online content. Originally I was not a fan of the Stephan Colbert Report, but the show has grown [...]
Thursday night the Senate ratified the Convention on Cybercrime, an international treaty between members of the Council of Europe. The treaty had been pushed hard by the Bush administration and major copyright holders, such as Microsoft, RIAA, et. al. The overall idea of the treaty is to create consistency between traditional laws and cybercrime law [...]
Timothy Lee published an Op-Ed in today’s NY Times entitled Entangling the Web in which he argues that ensuring Network Neutrality would be tantamount to big government regulation, which would lead to monopolies and corruption. Mr. Lee seems to ignore the fact that we are already there.
I have always found it, more then a little, [...]
