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Bradley Colson

Why is Silicon Valley silent on CISPA? (Cyber Intelligence and Sharing Act) - 2 views

In January, America's major tech companies joined everyday internet users to break the back of a reviled law called SOPA. Months later, Washington is brewing a new law that alarms many SOPA opponen...

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Bill Genereux

FCC chief prepares to overrule state Web laws | TheHill - 1 views

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    The agency will seek to nullify laws halting local government-run Internet service.
Kelly Carpenter

Hawaii's proposed online tracking law comes under fire from ISPs, civil libertarians - 1 views

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    There may be some trouble brewing in paradise, thanks to a seemingly draconian law currently under consideration in Hawaii's state legislature. If passed, H.B. 2288 would require all ISPs within the state to track and store information on their customers, including details on every website they visit, as well as their own names and addresses.
Elena A

Laws of Physics Say Quantum Cryptography Is Unhackable. It's Not - 0 views

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    In the never-ending arms race between secret-keepers and code-breakers, the laws of quantum mechanics seemed to have the potential to give secret-keepers the upper hand. A technique called quantum cryptography can, in principle, allow you to encrypt a message in such a way that it would never be read by anyone whose eyes it isn't for.
Bill Genereux

Internet Regulation & the Economics of Piracy | Cato @ Liberty - 0 views

  • suppose the CEO of Wal-Mart came to Congress demanding a $50 million program to deploy FBI agents to frisk suspicious-looking teens in towns near Wal-Marts.
  • No doubt piracy is costing the content industries s
    • Bill Genereux
       
      something very interesting here
bunger24

Could the Internet Ever Be Destroyed?: Scientific American - 0 views

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    The coming threats to the global Internet could take many forms By Natalie Wolchover and LiveScience | January 20, 2012 | Image: Creative Commons | The Opte Project The raging battle over SOPA and PIPA, the proposed anti-piracy laws, is looking more and more likely to end in favor of Internet freedom - but it won't be the last battle of its kind.
josh jensen

Push for the regulation of Bitcoin - 0 views

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    As bitcoin becomes more popular it attracts more attention from government regulators. The online currency has become know as a way to exchange currency without government interference, and it was only a matter of time before regulators caught on.
Bill Genereux

How net neutrality fight may change your internet - CNN.com - 0 views

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    (CNN) -- How would you like to have to pay a fee to be able to stream YouTube videos at full speed? What if you liked downloading music from, say, Last.fm or Soundcloud, but those sites suddenly became infinitely slower than bigger sites like Amazon or iTunes?
Bill Genereux

Court strikes down net neutrality rules - 0 views

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    Verizon brought the case in which a court ruled against the FCC's net neutrality rules. A federal appeals court has struck down Federal Communications Commission rules that prohibit Internet service providers (ISPs) from restricting access to legal Web content.
Rodney Gordon

Sheriff utilizing social networking sites - 0 views

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    I find it fasinating that law enforcement is beginning to use this media to help solve crimes as this has been my career for the last 14 years.
dmmceldowney

Hollywood is trying to break DNS, the backbone of the internet - 1 views

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    Sony leaked memo reveals Hollywood is trying to force SOPA regulations without the obviousness of a SOPA law.
Bill Genereux

Women aren't welcome on the Internet - 0 views

  • The officers were unanimous in advising me to take a break from Twitter, assuming, as many people do, that Twitter is at best a time-wasting narcotic.
  • Pew found that from 2000 to 2005, the percentage of Internet users who participate in online chats and discussion groups dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent, “entirely because of women’s fall off in participation.
  • Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman draws a distinction between “tourists” and “vagabonds” in the modern economy
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  • On the Internet, men are tourists and women are vagabonds.
  • Nathan Jurgenson
  • Twitter “has a history of saying ‘too bad, so sad’” when confronted with concerns about harassment on its platform
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    An eye opening essay on the challenges of being a woman online
djuenemann

Mayors of Boston, Seattle, KC, others: No more muni broadband restrictions, please - 1 views

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    A group of 38 mayors and other elected officials from cities like Boston, Seattle, and Kansas City Thursday urged the FCC to strike down state laws that restrict the development of public high-speed Internet services and allow municipal networks to flourish.
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