Tag Archives: telecommunication

BBC News – Netherlands makes net neutrality a law

The Nether­lands of course makes the right call.

June 23, 2011 – 10:52 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Business, Communication, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again

If it wasn’t so frus­trat­ing you have to almost admire Repub­li­cans abil­ity to ignore their own experts or exam­ples when legislating.

April 10, 2011 – 1:12 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

TechCrunch – Egypt Shuts Down Noor, Its Last ISP

This is so weird and dis­turb­ing the idea of a polit­i­cal entity being able to just dis­con­nect itself from the internet.

January 31, 2011 – 11:16 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Communication, Economics, Politics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Internet access is ‘a fundamental right’ – BBC News

BBC World sur­vey shows that most peo­ple think that the inter­net is a now a fun­da­men­tal right.

March 7, 2010 – 10:17 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Technology | Tagged , , , , , | Comments Off

U.S. Declassifies Part of Secret Cybersecurity Plan – Wired.com

The Obama admin­is­tra­tion has declas­si­fied parts of the national cyber­se­cu­rity plan.

March 2, 2010 – 9:08 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics, Security, Technology | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off