Net Neutrality As Campaign Finance Reform
It is quite possible that the most important piece of campaign finance reform to pass in 2006 will be Senator Wyden's Internet Non-Discrimination Act of 2006. Until now the internet did not require...
View ArticleThe adventures of Fair Use Person?
To my surprise and delight, the good folks at Duke Law have produced this comic book to explain the law of fair use and how expanding copyrights is producing lots of collateral damage in the free...
View ArticleUPDATE: COPE PASSES HOUSE late Thursday Night
To further stack the odds, they went ahead and held the debate and vote tonight after Tom DeLay's farewell address. Fitting tribute, I suppose, sacrifice the finest engine of civic discourse and free...
View ArticleMy Day With the Reps, or Today I Am A Wonk.
Every profession has its little milestones. As a confirmed Washington policy wonk, I've always wanted to testify before Congress (in a situation where I did not have to take the Fifth).
View ArticleThe Verizon/NARAL Flap And Lessons for NARAL (and all the rest of you...
It seems like every time I go away, something fun happens on Net Neutrality. I go on vacation and AT&T accidentally censors Pearl Jam . I go away for Sukkot and Verizon makes a major faux-pas by...
View ArticleTribute to Becky Lentz
I occasionally grouse that no one in mass movements ever remembers the lawyers, or why else does my employer Media Access Project keep needing to check behind the couch cushions for loose change, given...
View ArticleWhere's the goddamn Magna Carta when you need it?
a story about some shadowy (nominally USian) government agency that's going around shutting down websites it doesn't like & snapping up the domain names. Rankin, the Treasury spokesman, said...
View ArticleI Debate The Would-Be Vulcans
So Marvin and I had our debate with Ken Ferree and Lawrence Spiwak . On the whole, I thought we mixed it up pretty thoroughly and civilly although you can all judge for yourselves by watching the...
View ArticleRural Carriers File “Skype-Lite,” or “Wireless Carterfone, it's not just for...
Today, the FCC will most likely dismiss the the Skype Petition . I've already written why I think this is a phenomenally bad idea and, while I continue to respect Kevin Martin and understand why he is...
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