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"When Hell freezes over" - Time-Warner: The hell you'll put al-Jazeera on our cable network From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: "When Hell freezes over" - Time-Warner: The hell you'll put al-Jazeera on our cable network.HT:IsraelMatzav. On Wednesday,...
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Corporations have been doing this for quite a few years. Retaining emails sent or received by their employees in the event they are needed for litigation -- or criminal defense -- later down the road. That's private corporations. And that's bad...
- Major Internet Service Providers To Institute So-called Six-strikes Plan By Year’s End
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS via Wired: The nation’s major internet service providers by year’s end will institute a so-called six-strikes plan, the “Copyright Alert System” initiative backed by the Obama administration and pushed by Hollywood...
- Opening The Barn Door
Newsmax: Obama Plans Internet Grab: FCC to Embrace 'Net Neutrality' Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:16 PM By: John O. Edwards Since the Internet took root as a mass communications phenomenon in the mid 1990s, a quiet war has raged in Washington...
- Storm Track Intimidation: Is Cox Communications An Islamophe – Or Just Not A Good Dhimmi?
From The Gathering StormImam Abdul Malik Johari of the Council of Muslim Organizations in Washington, DC accuses Cox Communications of Ilsmaophobia because it wants to charge cable subscribers money to view an all Muslim cable channel that is free on...
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And Now, The Usenet Website Is Being Attacked By The Government?
I've never used Usenet, so I'm not familiar with how it operates, but this does not sound good:
Go read the whole thing at Astute Bloggers.
Leftist attack on Usenet
The usual "pornography" excuse:
"New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced on Tuesday that
Verizon Communications, Time Warner Cable, and Sprint would "shut down major
sources of online child pornography."
What Cuomo didn't say is that his agreement with broadband providers means
that they will broadly curb customers' access to Usenet--the venerable pre-Web
home of some 100,000 discussion groups, only a handful of which contain illegal
material.
Time Warner Cable said it will cease to offer customers access to any
Usenet newsgroups, a decision that will affect customers nationwide. Sprint said
it would no longer offer any of the tens of thousands of alt.* Usenet
newsgroups.
Verizon's plan is to eliminate some "fairly broad newsgroup areas."
It's not quite the death of Usenet (which has been predicted, incorrectly,
countless times). But if a politician can pressure three of the largest Internet
providers into censorial acquiescence, it may only be a matter of time before
smaller ones like Supernews, Giganews, and Usenet.com feel the squeeze.
Go read the whole thing at Astute Bloggers.
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"When Hell freezes over" - Time-Warner: The hell you'll put al-Jazeera on our cable network From Will at THE OTHER NEWS: "When Hell freezes over" - Time-Warner: The hell you'll put al-Jazeera on our cable network.HT:IsraelMatzav. On Wednesday,...
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Corporations have been doing this for quite a few years. Retaining emails sent or received by their employees in the event they are needed for litigation -- or criminal defense -- later down the road. That's private corporations. And that's bad...
- Major Internet Service Providers To Institute So-called Six-strikes Plan By Year’s End
From Will at THE OTHER NEWS via Wired: The nation’s major internet service providers by year’s end will institute a so-called six-strikes plan, the “Copyright Alert System” initiative backed by the Obama administration and pushed by Hollywood...
- Opening The Barn Door
Newsmax: Obama Plans Internet Grab: FCC to Embrace 'Net Neutrality' Sunday, September 20, 2009 7:16 PM By: John O. Edwards Since the Internet took root as a mass communications phenomenon in the mid 1990s, a quiet war has raged in Washington...
- Storm Track Intimidation: Is Cox Communications An Islamophe – Or Just Not A Good Dhimmi?
From The Gathering StormImam Abdul Malik Johari of the Council of Muslim Organizations in Washington, DC accuses Cox Communications of Ilsmaophobia because it wants to charge cable subscribers money to view an all Muslim cable channel that is free on...