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ENDANGERED INTERNET, MEDIA FREEDOM
Sen. Rockefeller: FCC Should Take FOX News, MSNBC Off Airwaves
SEN. JAY ROCKEFELLER (D-WV): “There’s a little bug inside of me which wants to get the FCC to say to FOX and to MSNBC: ‘Out. Off. End. Goodbye.’ It would be a big favor to political discourse; our ability to do our work here in Congress, and to the American people, to be able to talk with each other and “have some faith in their government and more importantly, in their future.
KERPEN: Silencing voices of Internet dissent – Washington Times
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) apparently is headed for a 3-2 party-line vote to regulate the Internet on Dec. 21, which Commissioner Robert M. McDowell (a stalwart free-market champion who opposes the regulations) points out is the darkest day of the year. In doing so, the FCC is putting the new Congress to a key first test of whether it can muster the will to overturn the Obama administration’s backdoor efforts to push a far-left agenda through regulation. Regulating the Internet under the banner of so-called network neutrality has been a far-left cause celebre for about eight years.
The FCC’s Threat to Internet Freedom – Wall Street Journal
‘Net neutrality’ sounds nice, but the Web is working fine now. The new rules will inhibit investment, deter innovation and create a billable-hours bonanza for lawyers. Tomorrow morning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will mark the winter solstice by taking an unprecedented step to expand government’s reach into the Internet by attempting to regulate its inner workings. In doing so, the agency will circumvent Congress and disregard a recent court ruling.
The Net Neutrality Sucker Punch – PCMag
The FCC made net neutrality the “terrorism” of the Internet, and we let regulation walk right though the door. The ruling itself is the problem. Now the FCC is involved in regulating the Internet. And don’t kid yourself, this is only the beginning of FCC meddling. People have to realize that government agencies exist to grow and prosper just like corporations.
Dems Narrowing Net Neutrality Gaps – Tech Daily
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is making progress in narrowing gaps with his two Democratic colleagues over his controversial plan to adopt sweeping new rules for the Internet. It seems a few folks have missed the key point here. The FCC has no legal authority to do this. And has been so informed by Congress. Their response has been to ignore those small details
UN mulls internet regulation options – Itnews
The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet. Establishment of such a group has the backing of several countries, spearheaded by Brazil.
Chinese ‘Hijacked’ U.S. Web Traffic – Including Gov’t Servers
It may have only been an 18-minute event, but when 15 percent of the world’s Internet traffic — including the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert Gates office, the Senate and several U.S. government agencies — was redirected last April onto computer servers in China, it also may have left the sites vulnerable to surveillance — or worse.
Why do we let this creepy company called Google spy on our emails? – Daily Mail
In truth, though, it is a creepy, multi¬national company that spies on us, as I found out a week ago after I foolishly left my laptop in the back of a London taxi. Like 190 million others, I had signed up for Google’s free service Gmail to write and receive emails.
INTERNET NEWS
Craigslist cuts off adult services worldwide
Rupert Murdoch creates ‘iNewspaper’ – with the help of Steve Jobs – The Guardian
Rupert Murdoch, head of the media giant News Corp, and Steve Jobs, the chief executive of Apple, are preparing to unveil a new digital “newspaper” called the Daily at the end of this month… The collaboration, which has been secretly under development in New York for several months, promises to be the world’s first “newspaper” designed exclusively for new tablet-style computers such as Apple’s iPad, with a launch planned for early next year.
Stuxnet knocks Natanz out for a week, hits Iran’s air defense exercise
Stuxnet is also in the process of raiding Iran’s military systems, sowing damage and disorder in its wake.
FBI Targets Young Russian Spam Kingpin
An FBI investigation has identified the young Russian man behind the notorious “Mega-D” botnet, the malicious network of more than 500,000 infected computers that was capable of sending ten billion spam e-mails a day and, until late last year, reportedly accounted for nearly a third of the spam clogging the Internet,
Businesses Lost 86,000 Laptops Worth $2.1 billion – Tom’s Hardware
It seems people are a little careless with company laptops. The survey, which was sponsored by Intel, suggested airports and train stations are not the riskiest places for a lost or stolen notebook: 40% of losses happen at “seemingly safe” locations such as homes and hotel rooms.