alltop.com Dec 18th, 2011 If you spend any time on the Internet, you’ve likely run across some form of protest against SOPA and/or PROTECT IP, bills before Congress that supporters claim are necessary to protect copyrights and opponents say will destroy the Internet as we know it.
November 16, 2011 A report in The New York Times suggests that the “Super Committee” in Congress—which has the power to fast-track it’s recommendations to reduce the deficit—is close to backing mandatory cuts to Social Security instead of tax increases for the richest one percent. No way we can let this happen. This is...
What if your Internet service provider told you what kind of computer you could use and what kind of software you could run on it? Would you stand for it? It’s not a theoretical question. Verizon Wireless and other mobile carriers, with Google’s help, are blocking Android applications they don’t like from the Android...
Video describing the torture this boy endured before he was killed. WARNING: EXTREME GRAPHIC CONTENT.
Outrageous! FCC Commissioner Meredith Attwell Baker is leaving the FCC to become a lobbyist for Comcast – just four months after she voted to approve the Comcast-NBC merger.1 This is just the latest – but perhaps most blatant — example of so-called “public servants” cashing in on companies they are supposed to be regulating....
* The dangers of allowing disproportionate corporate influence over our lives. * Why a constitutional amendment is the best way to defend our democracy from an all-out assault by corporations motivated solely by an unquenchable thirst for profits.
In Egypt this week, the Mubarak regime shut down Internet and cell phone communications before launching a violent crackdown against political protesters (watch Free Press’ Timothy Karr discuss the use of technology in Egypt in the video to the right). Now, Free Press has discovered that an American company — Boeing-owned Narus of Sunnyvale,...
The FCC just blessed the merger of Comcast, the nation’s largest cable and home Internet provider, with NBC Universal. The Justice Department approved the merger, too, leading to the unprecedented consolidation of media and Internet power in the hands of one company. There’s no way to sugarcoat it. Wherever you live, the Comcast-NBC merger is...
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