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We’ve Finished the Internet – Let’s Start Over From Scratch
Federally Funded Boffins Want To Scrap The InternetBy Steve WatsonApr 20, 2007, 09:06 Researchers funded by the federal government want to shut down the internet and start over, citing the fact that at the moment there are loopholes in the … Continue reading
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More On Internet Regulation
This article raises some burning issues for serious bloggers, and many other Internet entities. We’ll be following this case and other similar cases closely in the coming months. Threats To Internet Freedom All Too RealPublished on Thursday, November 30, 2006.Source: … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO PODCASTS | Interviews with Bill Minutaglio, Alice Embree, James Cole & Nicole Stasek, Harry Targ, Bruce Melton, Roy Casagranda & Glenn Smith, Alex Coke, Spencer Perskin & Shawn Siegel, and Lee Carter
Our guests include the author of a cool new book about Timothy Leary, health justice and climate change activists, a Virginia Democratic Socialist, an acclaimed jazz musician, and classic Austin rockers. Interviews by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | … Continue reading
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RAG RADIO PODCAST | Bob McChesney on our media crisis – and on ‘post-capitalist democracy’
In his important new book, the influential media critic is ‘Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century.’ Interview by Thorne Dreyer | The Rag Blog | January 24, 2015 Our guest on Rag Radio is Robert W. McChesney, one of … Continue reading
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The GOP/corporate coup d’etat is nearly complete
Our electoral apparatus is thoroughly compromised by oceans of dirty money, Jim Crow registration traps, rigged electronic voting, gerrymandering… By Harvey Wasserman | The Rag Blog | November 5, 2014 The GOP/corporate coup d’etat is nearly complete. The Republicans now … Continue reading
Sarah Jaffe : ‘Mama Grizzlies’ and the New Tea Party ‘Feminism’
‘Mama Grizzlies’:The Tea Party and its claims to feminism By Sarah Jaffe / October 11, 2010 It all started with Sarah Palin. Or did it? Maybe it started a few months earlier, when Hillary Clinton downed a shot of whiskey … Continue reading
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Tagged Electoral politics, Feminism, Mama Grizzlies, Republican Party, Right Wing Extremists, Sarah Palin, Tea Baggers, Tea Party
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Comcast-NBC Merger : Controlling Content and Delivery
Image from ZeroPaid.The Comcast-NBC marriage:The importance of Net Neutrality With a monopoly on delivery, what’s to stop a new breed of ISPs/cable providers from dictating content to customers? By Jared Moya / December 10, 2009 See ‘Internet war: The fight … Continue reading
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Tagged Broadband, Business, Cable Television, Communications, Freedom of Information, Internet, Media, Mergers, Monopolies, Net Neutrality, Technology, Telecoms
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Deep Packet Inspection : Global Censorship Technology Used in Iran — AND in U.S.
Deep Packet Inspection:Free Press warns of global censorship technology deployed in U.S. DPI technology is America’s sleeping giant. It has been widely deployed by Internet service providers across the country, and could be secretly put to use without our knowledge … Continue reading
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Tagged Censorship, Freedom of Press, Internet, Iran, Privacy, Technology
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Cole: Financial Trouble in the Newspaper Industry
The End of Newspapers? Or is there a Journalism School Model?By Juan Cole / March 1, 2009 You wonder if the last front page article in the last newspaper will be about the demise of the newspaper? I especially regret … Continue reading
What We Need Is A Digital Bill Of Rights
‘It is time to really think about a comprehensive national technology policy for the Internet Age’By Erick Schonfeld / August 25, 2008 As the Democrats and Republicans gather at their national conventions, it is time to really think about a … Continue reading
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Tagged Digital Media, Freedom of Expression, Intellectual Property, Internet Rights, Net Neutrality, Privacy, Technology
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Bill Moyers: "Communitainment" and Other Media Wonders
Is the Fourth Estate a Fifth Column? Corporate media colludes with democracy’s demiseBy Bill Moyers / July 14, 2008 I heard this story a long time ago, growing up in Choctaw County in Oklahoma before my family moved to Texas. … Continue reading
Beware the New New Thing AND The Already Thing
Christian Northeast / NYTNew internet technologies could bring de facto censorship.By Damian Kulash Jr. / April 5, 2008 Recently, the House Judiciary Committee’s antitrust task force invited me to be the lead witness for its hearing on “net neutrality.” I’ve … Continue reading
