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The Internet is Already Broken 

December 20, 2017

The Internet is Already Broken  Photo by irina slutsky | CC BY 2.0 Near the end of 2014 Kim Kardashian set out to “break the internet.” She posed naked for pictures. This went great, getting 1% of entire internet activity on the day she did it. Now the worry is that such expressions of democracy […]

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The FCC’s Order Is Out, We’ve Read It, and Here’s What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet

November 30, 2017

The FCC’s Order Is Out, We’ve Read It, and Here’s What You Need to Know: It Will End Net Neutrality and Break the Internet On Wednesday, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai released his draft order to completely eradicate Net Neutrality. You can read the full text here. The short version is that Pai’s order […]

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More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked

November 25, 2017

More than a Million Pro-Repeal Net Neutrality Comments were Likely Faked I used natural language processing techniques to analyze net neutrality comments submitted to the FCC from April-October 2017, and the results were disturbing. Spot the fake comment. Surprise — they’re all fake. NY Attorney General Schneiderman estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans’ identities were stolen and used […]

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Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition

November 25, 2017

Goodbye Net Neutrality; Hello Competition We should take our deregulation where we can get it.   At long last, with the end of “net neutrality,” competition could soon come to the industry that delivers Internet services to you. You might be able to pick among a range of packages, some minimalist and some maximalist, depending […]

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From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages 

November 25, 2017

From an Open Internet, Back to the Dark Ages  Photo by Credo Action CC BY 2.0 Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their will, censoring content […]

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Civil Rights Group Backed by Telecom Industry Seeks to Block Net Neutrality, Instantly Contradicts Itself

September 1, 2015

Civil Rights Group Backed by Telecom Industry Seeks to Block Net Neutrality, Instantly Contradicts Itself The Multicultural Media, Telecom and Internet Council, an organization thatsays its purpose is to advance “equal opportunity and civil rights” in the media, has faced criticism in the past that the organization acts as little more than a corporate front group. Two positions taken recently by […]

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The Net Neutrality Debate Proves The Opinions Are Far From Informed

February 28, 2015

The Net Neutrality Debate Proves The Opinions Are Far From Informed As many of you know the FCC approved what is now considered the greatest change in the fundamental underpinnings of how the internet will be both used as well as “allowed” to be used. The regulation now known as Net Neutrality will supposedly make the […]

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