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FCC Releases 400 Pages of Net Neutrality Rules

The FCC released its full rules for Net Neutrality Thursday morning. The 400-page document — including dissent from the two Republicans on the...

C. Mitchell Shaw March 13, 2015

It’s Not Too Late to Stop Net Neutrality

C. Mitchell Shaw March 8, 2015

Republican lawmakers are pursuing legislation to reverse the FCC's February 26 Net Neutrality ruling, which at least one lawmaker describes as "illegal." If...

UN “Expert” Praises FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules: Ignores Facts

C. Mitchell Shaw March 7, 2015

The UN special rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression, David Kaye, has praised the Net Neutrality plan of the FCC, but he...

Net Neutrality: Beginning of the End of the Internet?

C. Mitchell Shaw February 27, 2015

The FCC voted yesterday to begin regulating the Internet as a public utility under a plan known as Net Neutrality. Let that sink...

China’s Failing Attempts to Censor the Internet

Bob Adelmann February 26, 2015

Despite help from titans in Silicon Valley, China's attempts to censor the Internet continue to fail ...

Obama Vetoes Keystone Pipeline

Raven Clabough February 25, 2015

As expected, President Obama has exercised his first of likely a number of vetoes now that he faces a Republican Congress. On Tuesday,...

Google Sounds Alarm Over FBI’s Proposal for Expanded Hacking Power

Michael Tennant February 21, 2015

Calling the FBI’s proposal to expand its authority to hack criminal suspects’ computers a “monumental” concern, Google is urging an advisory committee to...

Your Smart TV Is Spying on You

C. Mitchell Shaw February 18, 2015

In the "Internet of Things" in which people now live, there are a variety of devices that use the Internet connectivity to improve...

$Re-fracking Old Wells Is Extending the Fracking Revolution$

Re-fracking Old Wells Is Extending the Fracking Revolution

Bob Adelmann February 17, 2015

Oil wells are being re-fracked to get renewed production, which will likely interfere with Saudi Arabia's efforts to hurt its competitors by flooding...

Enforced Energy Poverty: Coal, Oil, Gas Must Stay in Ground Say Alarmists

William F. Jasper February 17, 2015

President Obama, the UN, the EPA, and radical enviro-activists intend to drastically curtail energy production and lock the planet into energy poverty at...

Scientists: Sending Messages into Outer Space Could Spell Doom

Selwyn Duke February 14, 2015

Some scientists want to send messages into space in the hope of piquing alien interest. But might it attract the kind of attention...

Lawmakers Move to Shield Americans’ E-mails From Government Snooping

Michael Tennant February 13, 2015

Federal and state legislators have introduced legislation to force government agents to obtain a warrant before searching Americans' old e-mails, closing a convenient...