This is exactly why we need net neutrality passed asap: For some sports fans, ESPN360, the online version of ESPN’s television channel, is a cornucopia of more than 3,500 sporting events each year, viewable from the convenience of a computer. For others, it’s a total bust. The only difference: their ISP. The culprit is ESPN’s […]
Yesterday the Obama campaigned named two big advocates of net neutrality to his transition team. The best part is that they are heading up the review of the FCC: Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual tech conference Supernova, and […]
Yup – that’s what the wingnuts are saying. John McCain says “horseshit” not once, but twice, during a nationally televised debate and the crowd who screams and yells every time a word slips out on a liberal blog, calls this being a maverick. Unfuckingbelievable. Let me give you a glimpse of how the wingnut blogs […]
An appeals court has tossed out the $550,000 fine the FCC imposed against CBS for Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction” during the 2004 Super Bowl. I can hear the Christian right screaming now.
The FCC is finally doing something I agree with: The head of the Federal Communications Commission said Thursday he will recommend that the nation’s largest cable company be punished for violating agency principles that guarantee customers open access to the Internet. The potentially precedent-setting move stems from a complaint against Comcast Corp. that the company […]
It must be done. A commissioner for the FCC is asking for an investigation into the 60 Minutes blackout in Alabama during the Don Siegleman story. If they don’t investigate then they just took a big dump on the red, white and blue.
Not only do we have McCain himself contradicting his defense, now we got another person involved doing so: Broadcaster Lowell “Bud” Paxson yesterday contradicted statements from Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign that the senator did not meet with Paxson or his lobbyist before sending two controversial letters to the Federal Communications Commission on Paxson’s behalf. […]
On Wednesday night McCain issued a statement saying this: “No representative of Paxson or Alcalde & Fay personally asked Senator McCain to send a letter to the FCC,” the campaign said in a statement e-mailed to reporters. However 5 years ago in a sworn deposition: But that flat claim seems to be contradicted by an […]
I can’t believe I am here defending John McCain, but this is getting to be ridiculous: Continuing his attack on Republican frontrunner Sen. John McCain, conservative radio show host Rush Limbaugh devoted a significant portion of his radio show Monday to urging conservatives not to vote for the senator in tomorrow’s Super Tuesday contests. For […]
It looks like some of the larger ISPs in the country are looking at ways to filter content to their subscribers in order to fight copyright infringements. It would be nice if we had an FCC that cared about consumer rights instead of corporate America’s profits.