Yay! Sanity visits the FCC

FEC Won’t Regulate Internet Politics – Yahoo! News
Expanded explanation of how this affects the netroots.

Google goes to the mat for privacy

The search results sweep by the US spy industry continues:
Google to feds: Back off

Google lashed out at the U.S. Justice Department on Friday, saying that a high-profile request for a list of a week’s worth of search terms must not be granted because it would disclose trade secrets and violate the privacy rights of its users.

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The New China Syndrome

Businesses have been encouraged by our government for years now to go into China, and the motivation was NOT to bring them our freedoms, but to take away their money. Now, the shit has hit the fan, because Yahoo, no doubt like other companies dancing to China’s tune, provided info that got a dissident identified and imprisoned for 8 years.… Read the rest

AfterDowningStreet.org claims censorship by Comcast and Symantec

How Comcast Censors Political Content says David Swanson of After Downing Street. (Comcast is a major internet service provider, equivalent, I think, to what Cox is around the OKC area.)
I can think of a couple of other possibilities for the source of the email blockage they experienced, but all of them involve squelching of political speech, and it… Read the rest

Supremes give Hollywood and corporate ISPs a big wet kiss

Not a Good Day for Innovation, Customer Rights and Free Speech

The Grokster file sharing decision was the most notorious of the ones handed down today. But the court also came down on the wrong side in the so-called “Brand X” matter, saying cable Internet access providers companies don’t have to provide access to third party ISPs. They own

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