Tag Archives: Politics

Electronic Frontier Foundation – The Internet at its Best

EFF high­lights some of the largest sites that par­tic­i­pated in the SOPA/PIPA blackout.

January 19, 2012 – 5:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

O’Reilly Radar – The President’s challenge

The idea that we’ll be able to go back in time and make it harder for peo­ple to get dig­i­tal information/media/anything is just wrong.

January 16, 2012 – 11:25 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Copyright, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Security, Technology, User Experience | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

ArsTechnica – Wikipedia to join reddit in SOPA blackout Wednesday

I’ll also be post­ing a mes­sage to protest and inform peo­ple about PIPA and SOPA, though I imag­ine Wikipedia will have a much larger influence.

January 16, 2012 – 7:38 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

American Civil Liberties Union – It Was Close, But We Won: Viva Net Neutrality!

Yeah for Net Neu­tral­ity, boo for my State Sen­a­tor being the one who intro­duced this resolution.

November 10, 2011 – 9:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

GeekWire – Gates to students: Don’t try to be a billionaire, it’s overrated

Some really inter­est­ing stuff in here.

October 29, 2011 – 1:42 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

Ars Technica – Three Senators condemn OnStar for tracking former customers

Glad I don’t own a vehi­cle with OnStar installed. It’s more than a lit­tle sleazy to col­lect and sell infor­ma­tion from for­mer customers.

September 27, 2011 – 2:03 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Quick Posts, Security | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

The White House – Direct the Patent Office to Cease Issuing Software Patents

Why haven’t you signed this petition?

September 24, 2011 – 2:23 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Patent, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off