Tech at Night: Amazon makes peace with CA Dems, Patent “reform” passes, Who’s...
Friday has come and gone at last, and in fact we’re well into Saturday now unfortunately, due to my needing to have covered so much this time. Additionally, at long last it looks like the ongoing saga...
View ArticleTech at Night: Kay Bailey Hutchison and Marsha Blackburn fight, LightSquared...
Up late tonight. Spent the better part of the last 8 hours setting up my new computer*. Lots of data to transfer around and all that. But fortunately there aren’t many new developments lately to talk...
View ArticleTech at Night: Anonymous fails again, Obama fails again, Internet censorship...
Columbus Day winds to a close, a cold slows me down, but Tech at Night marches on somehow. You know what’s also marched on? The New York Stock Exchange’s website. The anarcho-terrorists of Anonymous...
View ArticleTech at Night: Rage against terrible, big government priorities in DC,...
Oh for crying out loud. For all that Washington talks tough about getting Americans access to high speed Internet, the “supercommittee” wants to tax new spectrum licensees. That’s just what we need:...
View ArticleTech at Night: I can’t spare Marsha Blackburn. She fights. Also: wireless...
Late start tonight for Tech at Night. Sorry, but I’ve started a plan to get myself out of California, and to be honest I’m more than a bit nervous about the whole thing. Looking for new work in the...
View ArticleTech at Night: Dangerous Internet censorship bill in the House, Spectrum...
Top story is easy to pick tonight. The legislation that’s been known in the Senate as PROTECT IP, the Internet censorship blacklist bill that promises to make a huge power grab online, Communist...
View ArticleTech at Night: USF Reform Reactions, We must stop SOPA and PROTECT IP censorship
Last week I noted that the FCC is officially moving ahead with its new subsidy program. The administration will convert the Universal Service Fund – currently taxing the public and handing it out to...
View ArticleTech at Night: Kill the bad bills and regs: SOPA, Net Neutrality,...
There’s been a push lately to attack punitive, unfair taxes on wireless service, one that Erick Erickson signed onto, and was advertised at RedState. Ironically I only found out about it because I saw...
View ArticleTech at Night: Public Knowledge attacks me, Wireless subsides, Bad laws
It turns out it’s not just a few of us on the right who know Tech at Night exists. Gigi Sohn says Tech at Night shapes the debate along with good old Less Government. Of course, Sohn also told a lie...
View ArticleTech at Night: Yes, I’m still going on about SOPA censorship, FCC, Spectrum,...
Some government mistakes slip by with only a few of us shouting about them. The Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA, is not one of those. People across the Internet are getting loud against the House bill...
View ArticleTech at Night: Spectrum Dishonesty at the Obama FCC, SOPA alternative...
There’s a new story developing. I’ve touched on it now and then, but the pieces are coming together. The FCC temporarily blocked the AT&T/Qualcomm deal to let AT&T buy spectrum using the...
View ArticleWe must defeat SOPA: Tech at Night Special
Ordinarily I use Tech at Night to cover a variety of topics that come my way, and I have them in my queue for tonight. But with over 30 items to consider and integrate, most of them on SOPA, I’m...
View ArticleTech at Night: George Soros wins over AT&T, SOPA and PROTECT IP battle...
Top story tonight is of course the major win by the triple alliance of George Soros and his front groups like Public Knowledge, Sprint Nextel, and the Obama administration’s dual agency of the FCC and...
View ArticleTech at Night: SOPA and PROTECT IP in yet more trouble. We need to constrain...
Some bills become unstoppable in the Congress. They pile up cosponsors, get leadership support, and cruise on through to easy passage. Not SOPA, or its original Senate version, PROTECT IP. They’re in...
View ArticleTech at Night: SOPA day wrap-up, and the next fight: taxes
So, Erick Erickson decided to make a big push against SOPA today, again bringing out the primary threat card. I also had a post on SOPA and PROTECT IP today. We were heard. On the House side, Speaker...
View ArticleSmith and Reid give in, setting aside SOPA and PROTECT IP
According to Darrell Issa, SOPA is officially postponed by House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith. Issa broke the news on Twitter, which only underscores how important it is that we protect the Internet...
View ArticleTech at Night: SOPA and PROTECT IP shelved, Blackburn tells it how it is on...
It was a long fight. I can’t tell you how many times I kept saying that SOPA and PROTECT IP were in trouble. But they’re getting shelved now. Sure, there’s whining about it. And the President still is...
View ArticleTech at Night: Live from Virginia: Human Trafficking, Cybersecurity
I’m back, having gotten myself and my worldly possessions from southern California to northern Virginia. I also have a backlog of items that I’m never going to cover completely tonight, so some issues...
View ArticleTech at Night: Privacy is unpopular, Leave Google alone, Apple app developers...
You want more proof that every single private industry privacy debate in DC is completely wrong headed? MSIE 10′s do not track default is unpopular. People don’t care. They value cheap/free stuff and...
View ArticleTech at Night: Google caving to Communists; Ron Wyden allying with Al Franken
And this is how that tech coalition begins to die: Ron Wyden working with Al Franken on large expansions of government online, a startling reversal from the anti-PROTECT IP Senator from Oregon. Google...
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