FCC approves controversial ‘Net Neutrality’ regulations
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/fcc-controversial-net-neutrality-rules/
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Supporters of "Net Neutrality" have been disappointed by the proposed rules, saying they heavily favor the industry they are supposed to regulate.
I'd be all angry about it, except pretty much every company I do business with on the net has engaged in the big corporatist war against wikileaks. Amazon, Comcast and Paypal I expected to do the devil's dirty work, but Apple? Man, that sucks. I don't want to have to return my Mac and iPod in protest.
Apple attacks WikiLeaks, yanks iPhone app from app store
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/apple-attacks-wikileaks-yanks-iphone-app-app-store/
Only a few days after its release, the unofficial WikiLeaks iPhone application has been removed from Apple's App Store.
At this rate, I'll have personally boycotted every business and site on the net long before my ISP can take advantage of the new net non-neutrality rules to hose my internet access.
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On a positive note, they passed an expansion of low power FM community radio. So while the new media everyone turns to is slowly being handed over to corporate powers, the old media that nobody uses anymore and that is becoming irrelevant is being put back into the hands of lowly commoners.
Dude, we should be an FM license and equipment and totally "Blank Reg" it.
When I saw the news I considered it. I did work at a college radio station for a year that was what we affectionately called the '10 watt cockroach'.
And you conjuring the image of Blank Reg makes it all the more enticing.
Imagine a network of underground stations flying under the radar of Big Brother because they couldn't monitor then from a remote computer.
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