The newly formed U.S. Cyber Command is supposed to centralize and focus the military’s ability to wage war over the Internet, but so far it’s basically famous for brainteasers. The command’s fancy logo contains a super-secret code in its inner gold ring: 9ec4c12949a4f31474f299058ce2b22a. Though some people noticed the code late last month, Wired’s Threat Level [...]
Broadband providers oppose a Federal Communications Commission plan to regulate them under telecommunications rules. AT&T’s Jim Cicconi said the company prefers action by Congress. FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski has proposed a “third way” solution. Comcast’s David Cohen said he fears “unjustified regulation.”
Washington (NewsFactor Network) — Broadband providers responded negatively to the release of a Federal [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US government regulators moved on Thursday to assert their authority over high-speed Internet broadband service, setting up a potential clash with US telecommunications giants.
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski in Washington, DC, in April 2010. US government regulators [...]
The US Trade Representative has spent the past two years “working with other developed nations” on ACTA, a “secret agreement allegedly designed to reduce the flow of fake physical goods across borders”, says the EFF.
If Hollywood “could order intellectual property laws for Christmas, what would they look like?” – wondered David Fewer, director of the [...]
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department said on Thursday it had concerns about the case of a Kuwaiti blogger on trial for allegedly insulting Kuwait’s head of state and had raised the matter with the Kuwaiti government.
Separately, the sister of blogger and journalist Mohammad Abdul-Kader al-Jassem said the charges against him were political and [...]
Considering the high-tech industry’s expanding reach into everyday consumer life, it should be no surprise that Washington, D.C. has taken a closer look at the Internet economy of late.
Though the industry has historically viewed Beltway politicians as a group best kept at arm’s length, several hot-button tech issues on the D.C. agenda this summer might [...]
Suggests Agency May Be Trying To Force-Feed Public Its Brand Of News, Info.
Former Democratic FCC commissioner Glen Robinson has taken aim at the agency’s Future of Media initiative, suggesting the commission may be trying to force-feed its brand of news and information on the public.
In an essay for free market think tank, The Free State [...]
p2pnet view - Politics:- Under Written Declaration 12 on ACTA: halfway there, participation still needed!, “185 signatures already, 184 left for an absolute majority!” – says La Quadrature du Net.
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The Written Declaration 12 (WD12) on the ACTA agreement is still open for signatures from Members of the European Parliament [...]
A quick look at the six Title II sections that FCC wants to apply to broadband providers
So is the Federal Communications Commission really going to place common carrier restrictions on Internet service providers? Well, yes, but not too many of them.
FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski Friday said he would move to reclassify ISPs as common carriers, [...]
May 6th 2010
The FCC’s plan to rework how it regulates the internet just got a lot more solid today, as the agency officially announced its “third way” approach to classifying broadband services and opened it up for public comment. We’ve broken the entire thing down for you — we’re not kidding when we say this [...]
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