Jason Schneiderman is the Senior Online Editor at NPQ.
On Wednesday morning, Democrats in the US House and Senate released a legislative proposal that, in three pages, would reverse two years of Republican-driven FCC shenanigans regarding the free and open, net-neutral Internet.
Patrick Gaspard, president of the Open Society Foundations, calls Facebook’s connection to attacks against George Soros reprehensible and destructive of democracy. It also helps prove points critics have long been making.
This year’s midterm elections have been marked by a record-setting surge in early voting.
Almost as soon as it was signed, California’s radical net neutrality bill faced suits from the Department of Justice and the broadband industry’s four main lobbying groups.
States that want to keep abortion legal are starting to clean house, eliminating old laws once considered unenforceable. Massachusetts passed the NASTY Women Act as an “an emergency law, necessary for the immediate preservation of the public health,” and Governor Baker has already said he’ll sign.
The judgment in this odd suit brought by nonprofit publicity master PETA was that Naruto the macaque lacks statutory standing to bring a copyright suit.
The FCC vote to tear down the protections that safeguard net neutrality is scheduled for today. Here’s how things stand.
FCC chair Ajit Pai, expressing worry that government is micromanaging the business models of corporations like AT&T, has expressed his intent to eliminate the hard-fought protections of net neutrality.
The initial warrant was sweeping in scope—by the strictest reading, it would have required DreamHost to turn over IP addresses for everyone who had visited the site, potentially identifying 1.3 million people.
The author of that leaked memo against diversity in tech has been fired from Google. However, neither his supporters nor his detractors are fully satisfied with the outcome.
