Jury Nullification and FISA Immunity Act
Jury nullification is recognized as lawful. What if it were applied to the FISA Immunity Act?
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The Killing Towers of the US Telecom Industry
He fell 120 feet to the ground while dismantling an unused communications tower in Lincoln, Illinois on June 8, 2005. Although identified only as employee #1 in the official OSHA report, he was 43...
View ArticleHelp! What Do I Do About My Bad ISP?
Happy morning after everyone! Those of you who know me realize that breaking down the digital divide has always been a passion. In the past, I have worried that many minorities lack access to the...
View ArticleDaily Digest: We Have Met the Enemy, and He is Us
By Tim Price, originally posted on Next New DealClick here to subscribe to the Roosevelt Institute's weekly newsletter.Click here to receive the Daily Digest via e-mail.Is Wal-Mart the enemy?...
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Economics Daily Digest: Giving the budget 40 whacks
By Tim Price, originally published on Next New DealClick here to receive the Daily Digest via email.The Sequester's Hidden Danger (NYRB)Roosevelt Institute Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick argues the real...
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Open thread for night owls: Veteran journalist Ray Bonner discusses FBI abuse...
Ray Bonner was working for The New York Times in January 1982 when he (at the same time as Alma Guillermoprieto of The Washington Post) broke the story of "la matanza"—the massacre—at El Mozote, El...
View ArticleThe Masters of The Universe Speak Out on NSA Surveillance
In a joint open letter to President Barack Obama, running as a full page ad in several newspapers, including the New York Times, eight Tech Behemoths, including some of the enablers of the NSA's...
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It’s Axiomatic — A Free Press Needs Net Neutrality
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.A.J. Liebling minted that axiom in the New Yorker magazine in 1960. Later that decade, researchers began work on creating packet-switching...
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Telecoms take HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS for national broadband, but don't want to...
No broadband for you! I want one of these deals:After making a big, bold promise to wire every corner of America, the telecom giants are running away from their vow to provide nationwide broadband...
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Net Neutrality Is Marxist Says Koch Astroturf Group
Just a short diary for now - wanted to get this out into the light of day. Looks like our favorite libertarian 1%'er Billionaires hate Net Neautrality. Hmmm, wonder why.Net Neutrality Is 'Marxist,'...
View ArticleFastest Internet in US? It's Chattanooga, TN, Thanks to Local and Fed $$$...
Yes, you read that right. Internet speeds as fast as 1 gigabit gigabyte per second are the norm in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Not the spot you might have predicted, would you. Certainly not...
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Now You Have to Pay AT&T $700 A Year Not To Spy On You
Soon if you value your privacy at all, you'll have to pay for it.If you have AT&T’s gigabit Internet service and wonder why it seems so affordable, here's the reason—AT&T is boosting...
View ArticleThis isn't because I'm a Conservative. It's because I'm an asshole.
This image comes from facebook.com/patriotpost a piece of shit Cheap Labor Regressive website spreading the common breed of right wing lies, myths, falsehoods, and propaganda we expect today but thick...
View ArticleOver the last 20 years, cable prices have completely outpaced inflation rates
A recent report by the FCC shows that cable companies have upped their prices for services at a rate far exceeding any explanation offered by inflation rates.Back in 1995, cable cost an average of just...
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FCC chairman pens lame damage control piece for hurting low-income internet...
Right before the weekend, the newly appointed, telecom-friendly FCC Chairman Ajit Pai reversed course and told nine new companies that they would not be able to begin participating in the Lifeline...
View ArticleRepublican senator says that net neutrality helps porn at the expense of...
Wisconsin Republican senator Ron Johnson threw his crazy hat into the ring on the issue of net neutrality yesterday. During an FCC oversight hearing, Sen. Johnson, piggybacking on Texas’s biggest pig...
View ArticleRepublican senators vote to repeal all of our broadband privacy rights
So this very depressing tweet just came on down the pipe.xPartisan vote (50-48) to repeal #Broadbandprivacy rules in the Senate. Resolution now moves to the House.â Christopher J. Lewis...
View ArticleGroup plans to put up billboards shaming any member of Congress who votes...
Republican senators have already voted to do away with the net privacy protections put in during the Obama administration. Now the fate of some of the last of our online privacy depends on an equally...
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This activist is collecting money to buy senators' browsing histories—and...
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell votingTuesday, Republicans in the House of Representatives joined Republicans in the Senate to get rid of consumer privacy rights. With the election of Trump and...
View ArticleThe FCC ends requirement for Charter/Time Warner merger to include actual ISP...
There’s nothing more successful for billion-dollar businesses than getting a billionaire president with a billionaire cabinet and a legislative branch filled with people who wish they were...
View Article72% of Republicans didn't want Trump and Republicans to destroy internet privacy
When Republicans and Trump revoked the internet privacy rules established last year, it was done not only in opposition to Democrats but to Republican voters everywhere.But ordinary Americans aren't...
View ArticleThe FCC does away with broadband caps, telling hospitals and small business...
The newly Republican FCC continues to dismantle any and all consumer protections from telecoms. Thursday, Chairman Ajit Pai and his cronies lifted the broadband price caps for most of the business...
View ArticleOn Net Neutrality, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce again sides with Big Business...
On July 12, activist groups and tech companies came together to protest a potential rollback of net neutrality regulations under the Trump administration. These rules are designed to ensure equal...
View ArticleFort Collins, Colorado says F.U. to big telecom as they vote to build...
There’s a reason that big telecoms like Comcast and Verizon are working tirelessly with their buddy Ajit Pai to infringe upon state and municipal rights regarding broadband services and net neutrality...
View ArticleSen. Franken writes op-ed to call for extending net neutrality rules to tech...
Senator Al Franken has been a proponent of a free and open internet for years, but Thursday, he decided to publish an op-ed in The Guardian that made a case for expanding our already threatened net...
View ArticleA slew of cable companies are going to hike prices for the new year—Merry no...
A couple of weeks ago Comcast gave a half-assed denial on leaked reports of upcoming price hikes to their cable services for this coming 2018. It was a bad sign of what we all knew was coming, the...
View ArticleCalifornia's 'strongest' net neutrality bill was just 'gutted' under big...
Over the past few weeks, California lawmakers have been moving forward with the strongest net neutrality protections bill on record. At every step, big telecoms have spent hours and tons of money...
View ArticleA bold blueprint for Democrats to lead the nation for at least a generation...
Hope. Optimism. Anticipation.Those feelings often seemed a distant memory during the past 18 months, at least in the part of my life that concerns politics and the future of my country.Then, a few days...
View ArticleFCC admits it lied about cyberattack that it used to ignore net neutrality...
Ajit Pai is a goofy jerk of a person. Making fun of him for looking like and being a goofball might be seen as “cheap,”if he wasn’t such a raging liar and corrupt official. The chairman of the FCC has...
View ArticleNow that net neutrality is settled, internet providers are asking for...
Internet service providers have argued that net neutrality protections for consumers were like a communist pillow smothering the free market joy big telecoms wanted to bring to the world. They weren’t...
View ArticleVerizon accused of throttling California Fire Department during emergency...
In the spring of 2017, Republicans Ajit Pai and Sen. Ron Johnson took a promotional tour in the hopes of selling the idea of doing away with net neutrality protections. Pai, who is Trump’s pick to...
View ArticleFear-mongering net neutrality robocalls target senior citizens; AT&T,...
Big telecom companies like AT&T and Verizon have been stressing out as states like California move closer and closer to enacting meaningful net neutrality consumer protections. In the wake of...
View ArticleTelecom lobbyist mistakenly sends tech writer idiotic talking points
Big telecoms are in the business of making money and increasing their strangleholds on the marketplace. They do not really care what happens to the majority of the country in the long run, because...
View ArticleCalifornia assembly approves strictest net neutrality bill. It could become...
Advocates in California for an open internet, with serious consumer protections, took another big step towards the country’s strictest net neutrality laws on Thursday. The state Assembly voted on...
View Article70% of low-income families on brink of losing subsidized phone access under...
Since last summer, it has become very clear that while the Republican Party is willing to add trillions of dollars to our national deficit in order to pay off the rich, they will pretend to be...
View ArticleTrump's FCC hack Ajit Pai helps kill Minnesota consumer protections and then...
The FCC’s Republican majority, led by former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, has been successful in laying the groundwork to broaden our economic and social inequalities in the field of communications....
View ArticleFCC chair Pai calls California net neutrality law illegal, gets smacked down...
California is potentially weeks away from signing into law the strictest net neutrality regulations in the country. Telecoms, having bought the FCC, are freaking out because they are now facing...
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Trump's FCC votes to take $2 billion from cities and towns and give it to...
Donald Trump’s Federal Communications Commission, headed by former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, has done it again. This time, instead of ripping away consumer protections, Pai is continuing the telecom...
View ArticleHurricane Michael victims can't use phones to summon help, thanks to Trump's...
As of Friday, several Florida counties devastated by Hurricane Michael have registered double-digit outages in their wireless service, which is currently one of the only means available for many of...
View ArticleRemember how gifting telecoms $2 billion would speed up infrastructure...
You may have missed it, but a couple of weeks ago the FCC Verizon shill Ajit Pai and his Republican cronies voted to steal away an estimated $2 billion from municipalities and states by limiting the...
View ArticleAT&T CEO suddenly a huge proponent of federal net neutrality law after...
AT&T, the Republican-led FCC, and telecoms everywhere are in the midst of litigating a variety of net neutrality fights from coast to coast. One of the more publicized and perfectly karmic is the...
View ArticleIt turns out that repealing net neutrality is leading to less broadband...
Back when the FCC, under chairman Ajit Pai, was lying about cyber attacks in order to ignore the overwhelmingly negative reaction to its plans to repeal net neutrality protections, Pai promised that...
View ArticleDemocratic leaders in Congress tells FCC's Ajit Pai to buckle up: It's time...
Ajit Pai’s tenure as chair of Trump’s FCC has been smooth sailing, in that he has had a corrupt Republican majority in the legislative branch of our government. Meanwhile, America has had a very rocky...
View ArticleCharter Communications will keep their tax breaks, not invest in...
One of those unicorn dreams that the Republican Party and its henchmen like FCC chair Ajit Pai promised everyone was that getting rid of regulations and slashing taxes on the rich and corporations...
View ArticleDemocrats reveal plan to Save the Internet, and it's going to be a big...
On Monday, the Democratic Party leadership informed the public that they would be unveiling their “Save the Net” legislation to re-install net neutrality consumer protections rolled back under Donald...
View ArticleTelecom profiteer Mitch McConnell says net neutrality bill 'dead on arrival'
Welcome back to the swamp. The majority of Americans did not want Trump’s FCC, under former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai, to roll back net neutrality protections. The democratically elected House of...
View ArticleThe cable industry made $28 billion last year in company-imposed hidden fees
For over a decade, the telecom and cable industry has used hidden fees to get around its misleading advertising. When Comcast tells you your cable will only cost you $50 a month, it is lying....
View ArticleAT&T promised cheap TV service in order to get their merger through: They...
AT&T is a prime example of how the conservative economic view of the world does not work out for anyone other than the top one percent. After being gifted tens of billions of dollars in the...
View ArticleVerizon and AT&T cut nearly 100,000 jobs but keep billions in tax breaks
The Republican tax giveaway to the richest people in our country extended into the businesses they owned. Then Majority-Leader Mitch McConnell told everyone that he believed the new jobs and trickling...
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I really REALLY hate it when my phone rings these days. Update x 2
Pretty sure this has been diaried about because the problem is hitting everyone, but I am really having a problem with the constant stream of junk phone calls. Calls offering to extend my car’s...
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