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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.
Liza Rios

Facebook's Acquisition of WhatsApp Will Face Legal - 1 views

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    I just thought this would be interesting.. I am glad I bought some stock when I did. ;-)
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
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      something very interesting here
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?
Nathan Ellis

Senator pushes for an end to NSA phone records program - 0 views

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    Senator Patrick Leahy questions the constitutionality of the NSA's phone tapping procedures. He urges the Obama administration to cease these acts and heads congress to vote to end the program. Judges have found the program legal, but Attorney General Eric Holder questions,"just because we can do something, should we do it?
dmmceldowney

Copyright Holders Want Netflix to Ban VPN Users | TorrentFreak - 1 views

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    If copyright holders get their way it will soon be impossible to access Netflix though a VPN service. The entertainment industry companies are calling for a ban on privacy services as that opens the door to foreign pirates. With the launch of legal streaming services such as Netflix, movie and TV fans have less reason to turn to pirate sites.
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
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