A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!I just read an article on montrealgazette.com that left me shaking my head in utter disbelief at the sheer stupidity of the situation.
It seems that a Vancouver businessman, Wayne Crookes, claims that writer Jon Newton defamed him by linking to reputation-smearing articles in a 2006 post about free speech on his website, www.p2pnet.net.
Essentially [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads As the FCC continues to work on it’s Net Neutrality rules, the issue of loopholes was inevitable. Sooner or later it had to turn up. The EFF has filed comments with the FCC urging them to address this before it gets out of control because if it does, the [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads The Federal Communications Commission has recently proposed net neutrality rules to ensure that the Internet is free from blocking, censorship and discrimination by telecom companies Cable companies and large ISP’s.
In a nutshell, Net Neutrality means that Internet providers should treat all Internet traffic the same and forward data packets on a [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads FCC chairman Chairman Julius Genachowski delivered a speech a couple weeks ago (yeah, I know, I’m behind the times again) in which he outlined his plan for the FCC to support net neutrality. You can read the full text of the speech here if you’re feeling up to the [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Recent news is that the FCC chairman, Julius Genachowski, informed Congress that the FCC intends to “keep the Internet free of increased user fees based on heavy Web
traffic and slow downloads.”
I seriously doubt the FCC’s ability to enforce much of anything but at least it’s a start. For example take [...]