Amazon’s Parler ban sets off a free speech showdown for Big Tech
Amazon’s decision to boot conservative chat site Parler from its hosting platform, on the heels of Twitter and many other…
No spare change: how charities, buskers and beggars aren’t feeling so festive in our cashless society
Collectors for the Paralympic Games carried donation buckets ahead of the recent Santa parade in Auckland, asking for gold coin…
Trump’s Cruel And Unusual Parting Gift: A Spree Of Federal Executions
When Yusuf Ahmed Nur, a professor at the University of Indiana, was asked to administer last rites to federal death…
FCC chairman Ajit Pai says he will leave Jan. 20
Ajit Pai will leave his post as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission on Jan. 20, the agency said today.…
The FCC’s Fake DDoS Attack, WannaCry Hits an Apple Supplier, and More Security News This Week
It’s Black Hat and DefCon conference time again, when the world’s top security researchers descend on the den of iniquity…
The Sinclair/Tribune Merger Is Dead. Here’s Why That Matters
A merger that would have given a conservative broadcasting company access to 73 percent of US households is now officially…
New York kicks Charter out of the state after failure to honor conditions of Time-Warner merger
Broadband providers! They love to make noise about how dedicated they are to improving your service, rolling out new features…
We can’t let net neutrality die
THE OFFICIAL expiration date for “net neutrality” has come and gone. So what happens now? On June 11, regulations passed…
A House Republican Joins the Fight to Save Net Neutrality
Democrats just gained a Republican ally in the battle to save net neutrality. Today, Representative Mike Coffman (R-Colorado) became the…
Why Sinclair’s Bid to Buy the Tribune Company Might Die
Sinclair Broadcasting’s proposed $3.9 billion takeover of Tribune Media, which would have expanded the conservative media company’s footprint to nearly…
It Just Got Easier for the FCC to Ignore Your Complaints
It may soon be harder to get the Federal Communications Commission to listen to your complaints about billing, privacy, or…