EU Battles Extremes
Jul 31, 2011 The EU decides to address far-right extremism; education fails to solve poverty and inequality, while Netflix may destroy TV networks. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Justice Dept. Wants Providers to Retain Internet Data
Jan 25, 2011 The Justice Department will ask Congress to make it mandatory for Internet service providers to retain data on their users' activity. Law enforcement officials already can ask for data to be preserved, but Justice would like to have more robust snooping capabilities in order to investigate and prosecute "almost every type of crime." (more)
The FCC, Net Neutrality and You
Dec 22, 2010 How is one to make sense of the FCC's big vote Tuesday? Does it represent a gain for the net-neutrality cause, or is the corporate takeover of the Web upon us in earnest? Well, one thing seems certain: Nobody is all that happy with the outcome -- except, that is, for some lobbyists.
FCC Set to Vote on Net Neutrality
Dec 21, 2010 It may seem as though the Federal Communications Commission might be onto something with the set of guidelines its members will probably approve Tuesday, but do these rules actually add up to what Sen. Al Franken and other skeptics are calling "fake net neutrality"?
FCC Tries to Find a (Third) Way
Jun 18, 2010 The FCC has reignited the battle for net neutrality after it requested public comment on three different plans for broadband Internet regulation. The new plans were introduced after a court ruling knocked down FCC measures to oversee Internet service providers.
Net Neutrality’s Last Stand
Apr 9, 2010 The future of the Internet looked a little bleaker to Net neutrality advocates this week after a federal appeals court decided that the Federal Communications Commission couldn't stop Internet service provider Comcast from messing with the load times of certain websites (continued) .
Someone Tell Google to Calm Down
Feb 11, 2010 Unsatisfied with running just your searches, browser, e-mail, calendar, documents, videos, cell phone, turn-by-turn navigation, operating system, electricity monitoring, much of the advertising on the Internet and more, Google has announced that it plans to experiment with providing Internet service that is about 100 times faster than what most Americans are used to.
