This was posted on IP Democracy about a Net neutrality Bill. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) unveiled his net neutrality bill today during a media conference call (MP3 here), outlining the bill’s provisions, which include the following: – Broadband providers will not be allowed to interfere with, block, degrade, alter, modify or change traffic on the […]
FCC – They don't know what they are doing???
This guest post on Discourse.net is quite interesting – the perspective of young folks working in government moving blindly through the system is an interesting one to remember. The highlighted part seems to highlight what is going on with the US government ( FCC & Commerce Department ) and the ICANN The O’Connor resignation, though, […]
Language is key
Listening and watching Doc’s slide show at Syndicate. It is great. One of the challenges he highlights is “Language” as a challenge in describing the new new media… Cognitive Linguistics 101 we talk about things in the terms of other things The REAL Matrix is the set of concepts we use to make sense of […]
BrandX and Identity Implications
I had dinner with Susan Crawford this week (btw: she says hi to all you XNS guys 🙂 We talked about the lesser talked about Supreme Court Decision this week BrandX. Basically the FCC can now impose “social policies” which can be very onerous and costly. They could effectively kill VoIP services. It also seems […]