Your Health Care Will Be Covered
In this short video, U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encourages musicians and other creative types to quite their day jobs because your insurance will be paid for under the new health care bill. Now, I’m a fan of this [...]
Internet companies and civil liberties groups were alarmed this spring when a U.S. Senate bill proposed handing the White House the power to disconnect private-sector computers from the Internet.
They’re not much happier about a revised version that [...]
What was advertised as a House Judiciary Committee hearing on trends affecting minority broadcast ownership devolved at times into a discussion of John Conyers’ (D-MI) Performance Rights Act, which included an attack on Radio One, which turned down an invitation to testify. Conyers said that Arbitron’s [...]
There was not a kind word to heard be from the Republican Party today about the House-passed Waxman-Markey bill. Obama calls the bill “bold and necessary.” The Republicans called it names. Waxman-Markey would change many aspects of federal law on energy, air pollution and global warming.
Amazingly one reader smart enough to find the ZDnet website [...]
WASHINGTON — Top attorneys for Microsoft and Google yesterday reiterated their companies’ support for tougher government rules to protect consumer privacy. But when it comes to the details, some watchdog groups say they are concerned that Web firms will continue to fight against specific provisions that would limit the ways they [...]
LIFE WITH BIG BROTHER
Proposed new powers called ‘drastic federal intervention’
A pair of bills introduced in the U.S. Senate would grant the White House sweeping new powers to access private online data, regulate the cybersecurity industry and even shut down Internet traffic during a declared “cyber emergency.”
Senate bills No. 773 and [...]
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