#CIM200 and #CIM130 students, here is a slightly different take on net neutrality than what we discussed in class. It does, however, stick with the plumbing metaphor. Enjoy!
Video: Bad Monkey Studios
Net Neutrality - The Internet You Need
Archive for topic “sundry”
Stolenpencollection.com: COICA Bill S. 3804 intent and likely outcomes
Senate Bill 3804, the Combating Online Infringements and Counterfeits Act, passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. It is also known as the “Internet Blacklist” bill. Remember the good ol’ days of Senator Joseph McCarthy? Those blacklists were a smashing success, weren’t they? Not so much. I will never understand why Hollywood, the silent sponsor of this legislation, is so very fond of blacklisting.
When bills like these come along, I always find it informative to check out just how much money each of the key members of Congress are paid by industrial interests to sponsor such legislation. If you are so inclined, you can easily contact your Senators regarding this legislation through Open Congress’ easy to use interface.
David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow from Good Night and Good Luck
For various reasons, these stories and videos never made their way into posts this year, though they were all worthy. This is in no way intended as your typical PR, tactical news dump. These are important stories that I actually want you to read. I just needed to clean out the hopper for the new year. So, please take your time and dig through these links and videos. There’s even some “feel good” links mixed in for good measure! Happy New Year!
Monsanto: Farmer suicides in India
The World According To Monsanto, Part 1
Elizabeth Warren on the Economy
Buy “The World According To Monsanto”
Making the TransAfghanistan pipeline safe for democracy
In search of morale: are Americans too broken for the truth to set us free?
Who should resist and who will become serfs?
Why is America apathetic? Aww, screw it. Who cares?
From EFF’s secret files: Anatomy of a bogus subpoena
What do ISPs charge the law to spy on you?
Vienna students march on US embassy (in solidarity with UC students)
Spain investigates what America should
Amy Goodman and Canada’s Olympic Paranoia
Time Warner and Embarq can’t compete with city-owned ISP, trying to outlaw it
Cablevision power play: 101 Mbps Internet, no caps, $99
Parkinson’s Dirty Deal, Part 1
Student hoaxes world’s media on Wikipedia
Buggy ‘smart meters’ open door to power-grid botnet
Time Warner cable cannot possibly compete with the small city of Wilson, North Carolina
Literary Lessons: Authors, Poet write the news
FCC to examine mobile phone exclusives
Comics artist Mark Sable detained for Unthinkable acts
Bush’s secret NSA spying may have tainted prosecutions, report warns
Free the patents and laws, activist tells the Feds
Birth of new species witnessed by scientists [evolution in action]
Clinic with two doors, a symbol of two-tier care
Corporations rule (II): Walmart can close stores in Canada to block unions
Democracy Now! covers Olympic security
US forgoes billions in tax on Citi
Feds ‘pinged’ Sprint GPS data 8 million times over a year
American’s consume 34 Gb of content per day
Millions of missing Bush administration emails found
The credit card’s newest trick: 79.9 percent interest
